activity. See full documentation for standards.In the ConnecTions in the Making project, researchers and school district partners work todevelop and study community-connected, integrated science and engineering curriculum unitsthat support diverse elementary students’ science and engineering ideas, practices, and attitudes.Students investigate, prototype, share, and revise functional solutions to an engineering designchallenge rooted in the students’ local community while scientifically exploring the phenomenaand mechanisms related to the challenge. This paper shares the “Accessible Playground Design”3rd-grade unit in which students explore the scientific concepts of force, motion and magnetismbased on the need to design a piece of accessible
machines. The graduates expect to find a job inelectrical power industry and related areas.In China, the electrical engineering curriculum is focused on basic applied math and fundamentalengineering sciences. The educational objective is to produce graduates who master solidfundamental engineering theory and are capable of adapting to new technology easily. It is left tothe industry to provide the newly hired graduates with trainings on specialized topics. In U.S.,electrical engineering curriculum in general adopts a broad educational approach with science,technology, and humanities. Software tools and computer applications are integrated into thecurriculum. As the result, U.S. electrical engineering graduates have broader spectrum of
of study? One method is to integrate them intocourses in the initial year of curriculums to allow interaction with students that could be effectivein retaining students in the program. Further study is needed on this topic, however, an initialreview of the changes made to the faculty included in beginning architectural design studios atOklahoma State University indicates that making these types of adjustments to beginning coursesmight be a step in the right direction.This study has some limitations, with one being that the survey was sent only to current studentsenrolled in the School of Architecture. To acquire a better understanding of why students haveleft their original major, the study could be expanded to include students who have
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29, 2024.[9] J. D. Ford and L. A. Riley, "Integrating communication and engineering education: A look at curricula, courses, and support systems," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 92, (4), pp. 325-328, 2003, https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2168-9830.2003.tb00776.x.[10] S. Manuel-Dupont, “Writing-across-the-curriculum in an engineering program” Journal of Engineering Education, vol., no. 85, pp. 35–40. 1996, https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2168- 9830.1996.tb00205.x.[11] P. L. Hirsch, Shwom, B. L., Yarnoff, C., Anderson, J. C., Kelso, D. M., Olson, G. B., & Colgate, J. E. “Engineering design and communication: The case for interdisciplinary collaboration,” International Journal of Engineering Education
issues and proposedattributes for successful engineers of 2020, these attributes and issues may almost alwaysbe couched within the following pedagogical concerns: There is a need to construct engineering curriculum so as to serve more diverse learners. There is a need to help students develop better complex thinking skills. There is a need to provide learning environments that more actively engage students on multi-disciplinary team projects. There is a need to create an opportunity for value added curriculum, particularly in the areas business, management, and leadership skills.To do this is going to require more active and engaged pedagogies that usually providesome opportunity for experiential
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Session 3253 A FRESHMAN ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE THE FOUNDATION COALITION AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY by Jim Morgan Associate Professor of Civil Engineering Texas A&M University ABSTRACT This paper represents an overview of the freshman year of the Foundation Coalitionprogram at Texas A&M University. Future directions of this program, taught in groups of onehundred, are highlighted. The curriculum includes chemistry, English, engineering
of these changes beyond courses participating in the original SIIP project. Wecontinue to keep track of students’ perception of the computational curriculum withinparticipating courses. Furthermore, we investigate the influence of the computational exposure onstudents’ perspective in research and during job search. Finally, we collect and analyze feedbackfrom department faculty regarding their experience with teaching techniques involvingcomputation.2 IntroductionA computational approach has become an indispensable tool in materials science research andrelated industry. In addition to the research interest, the 2009 survey by Thornton et al. [1] andthe followup 2018 survey by Enrique et al. [2] showed that employers of MSE students, such
studying the changes inpopulation, human resource flows (migration), the changing distribution of design andmanufacturing/construction work, urbanization, diseases, resource management, environmentaldegradation, economic integration, knowledge dissemination, information technology,biotechnology, nanotechnology, conflict, and governance.2 Therefore, the best way to conciliateboth pro and against positions is to understand the unavoidable changes and take the necessarysteps in minimizing their impact in the society.These rapid changes in the world entail a change in the role of engineers in the global economyand, as a consequence, in the engineering education. There is an increasing perception of theneed to educate competent engineers for the global
imperatives, not just the technocratic and economicconstraints.IV. Conclusion.We have described the curricular, pedagogical, and methodological objectives that the Drexelprogram in engineering ethics aims to meet. Designed initially to respond to practical needs ofstudents and their employers in Drexel’s co-operative education program, these objectives (andour methods of addressing them) offer one possible implementation of the ABET 2000 criteria.At the core of our approach is the belief that an engineering ethics course should not just fulfillan ethical vacuum or become a “tacked on” supplement, which is designed to meet externallyimposed criteria. Rather, it should be interwoven into an integrated engineering curriculum, andrelate closely to
increaseaccessibility for working adults, a new online Electrical Engineering Technology (EET) programwas launched in the Fall 2017 semester. This paper presents the results of a comparative study oftwo groups of students (online and on-campus) doing the same lab-intensive course. The courseis Digital Fundamentals, a 200-level core requirement of the EET curriculum. Four importantresearch questions were posed: i. Can online courses be delivered while maintaining rigorous accreditation standards? ii. Can teamwork be encouraged and maintained in an online setting? iii. Can the integrity of assessment processes be preserved? iv. Can the pedagogical effectiveness of the lab experiences be evaluated?METHODOLOGYTwo groups of students were
present our future plans to further improve and facilitate cyber security learning. The rest of this paper is organized as follows. Section 2 presents an explanatory and detailed overview of some efforts thatwere done in the past to integrate GENI and SDN in order to facilitate and boost cyber security learning experience. Section 3.2then presents our research efforts towards the integration of GENI and SDN in our teaching curriculum and development ofa broad range of cyber security labs and experimental modules. Finally, in Section 4 we present our future plans along withconcluding remarks of our paper.2 RELATED WORKIn cyber security for Higher Education (HE), curriculums encompass topics including secure software development, websecurity
10 10 # Parts produced Figure 5. Paths to volume productionMost of these high quality integrated components can be obtained in small volumes forprototyping. If the concept is successful, production volumes can be readily scaled up tomeet market demand. By comparison, a manual assembly process using simple circuits(of the kind that are commonly used in teaching labs) can only give quality at the level of1 or 2 sigma. That may be enough to demonstrate a simple prototype but suppose it wereto be successful? It cannot be scaled up without being redesigned to use high qualitytechnology. As an example, TTL or CMOS gates are building blocks that are much toosmall for
viewed a product that needs to be verified and validated 1.Verification is defined as building the product correctly, while validation is defined as buildingthe right product1; this work is focused on curriculum validation.One thing anyone familiar with product design will be familiar with is identifying customerneeds or the voice of the customer (VOC). This is an integral part of any development project 13.It is important to not only identify customer needs, but also the importance of those needs 14. Anunderstanding of customer needs and a focus on them are key for the success of anyproduct 15, 16; in this case the success of an educational curriculum.It should be recognized that an educational curriculum is not like a standalone item. The
academic processes they callfor, presents a model established at Loyola Marymount University which integrates theseprocesses into a system for continuous improvement, comments on quality teaching andcontinuous improvement, and reviews some lessons learned from early attempts to implementEC 2000.I. GlossaryProcesses: Linked, interactive sets of activities which, taken together, comprise a system of continuous program development, assessment and improvement.Program Constituency: A group of people with common expectations of an educational program.Constituencies’ Needs: Benefits which a program’s constituencies expect to realize in return for
participate in formal professional development (PD) activities that exposeteachers to robotic design activities which can be integrated into classroom practicesconstructively. Well-trained teachers, along with an appropriate educational philosophy,curriculum, and learning environment are critical to the successful integration of LEGOMindstorm robotics in the classroom. Based on this principle, in 2009, NASA awarded Georgia Tech a contract to developonline professional development (PD) courses for STEM teachers. One goal of this project is tosupport teachers’ professional development through an online curriculum designed to enableteachers to learn skills for utilizing robotics concepts in conjunction with the Lego Mindstormkits in math and
Foundation have funded her research. Her research interests relate to the incorporation of active learning techniques such as game-based learning 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 outcomes. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comLongitudinal Assessment of Engineering Student EM Using the ESEMA Self- Report SurveyAbstractIn order to meet industry expectations of engineering
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concepts in existing coursework will serve as a pilot to teachSPD without increasing the number of credit hours for the program. Learning outcomeassessment of this pilot effort should guide the next phase of integrating SPD in engineeringtechnology curricula.ConclusionsSustainable product development is a necessity for companies wishing to compete in the moderneconomy. While product development processes with a sustainable focus are being implementedin industry, little effort has been devoted to developing a generalized theory of SPD suitable forintegration within educational curriculum. The generalized SPD proposed herein consists ofboth an engineering process and leadership framework, which is well suited for demonstrating tostudents the broad
, postgraduate training in Computer Systems Engineering, and many years of experience teaching and developing curriculum in various learning environments. She has taught technology integration and teacher training to undergrad- uate and graduate students at Arizona State University, students at the K-12 level locally and abroad, and various workshops and modules in business and industry. Dr. Larson is experienced in the application of American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Paper ID #29194 instructional design, delivery, evaluation, and specializes in
systems thinking—core componentsof the entrepreneurial mindset. By focusing on these skills, the program aligns with broadereducational goals to prepare students for complex problem-solving in dynamic, real-worldcontexts.Since its inception, the KEEN Fellowship program has grown significantly, drawing participantsfrom various disciplines and institutions nationwide. Fellows undergo professional developmentthrough targeted workshops, such as Integrating Curriculum with Entrepreneurial Mindset (ICE)and Problem-Solving Studios (PSS), which equip them with pedagogical tools and frameworksthat foster active learning and cross-disciplinary applications. This growth reflects an increasingrecognition of the entrepreneurial mindset as essential for
for subsequent travel abroad for hands-oninteraction with engineers and management of leading international product firms, with theopportunity to explore possible technology-transfer.1. IntroductionIt is no longer debated, but implicitly assumed and often explicitly stated, that leading engineerswill need to be prepared to function in the increasingly interconnected global environment. Itwill be the exception, not the rule, when engineering enterprise can be wholly executed withinnational boundaries. To prepare engineers for the complex, and often mysterious, climate ofinternational design and engineering, a new facet to the design curriculum at Princeton is in theprocess of being developed. An overarching emphasis on global engineering is
Dr. Ellis received his PhD in Industrial Engineering from Penn State. He is on the faculty of the Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering in the Wayne State University College of Engineering. He has over 15 years of experience in the field of human factors and ergonomics, specializing in human-computer interaction. His current research is focused on human-robot interaction. In addition to his human-factors related research he has interests in activity based learning and curriculum development in industrial engineering.Kyoung-Yun Kim, Wayne State University Dr. Kyoung-Yun Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at
Mechanical Engineering, MIT NIST inGaithersburg, Maryland Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hongik University in Korea Page 17.14.2 Design Educations for Students at Mechanical Engineering AbstractThe paper addresses an issue of setting a new standard of engineering education by developmentand support of competitive curriculum for specialized and innovative design education, whichwill strengthen the capability of students at Mechanical Engineering with the skills and inceptionof industrial design. Three courses appropriate to the needs and developmental levels have
project. Horizontal integration effortsinvolve courses that are placed in the same year of a curriculum. Most efforts here haveinvolved courses in science and math at the freshman level. An example of horizontalintegration is “IMPEC: An Integrated First-Year Engineering Curriculum” conducted atNorth Carolina State University. In that effort, linkages between mathematics, physics,chemistry and engineering have been conveyed to the student via courses that integratethe subject matter at the freshman level.This project addresses vertical integration among topics in mathematics and engineeringcourses at freshman and sophomore levels. Specifically, development of examples thataddress applications of engineering in a form and format that is suitable
during her interview as Founding Chair.Vision for the CurriculumAlthough an internal task force had drafted an engineering curriculum spring 2016 to get the newdepartment approved in the College, the Founding Chair was allowed to start the curriculumdesign process from scratch to ensure ABET compliance and alignment with shared visioning.As a point of reference, Figure 9 shows the originally proposed WFU BS Engineeringcurriculum, which showcases what most would describe as a traditional engineering curricularmodel. Eventually, as will be visible in upcoming sections of this paper, the WFU Engineeringwould reflect a model that is more interdisciplinary, integrated, and holistic. Proposed WFU BS
of integration of information literacy early in the curriculum, as done in the casestudy, is that all students complete the project in an early core class. Otherwise, if informationliteracy instruction has not been course integrated, some students acquire skills that others donot. Based on accreditation criteria discussed below, the best opportunities for integration arecore classes and design classes. This particular project, begun in 1982, continues withoutinterruption. Librarians became a formal part of the introduction to the project in 1986.ABET Curriculum and OutcomesTwo requirements of ABET Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Technology Programs (2009) 8emphasize information literacy and standards education. These include Criterion 3
engineering itself. The result of this novel approach to integrating softwareengineering concepts into a curriculum is the infusion of new approaches to realizingeducational goals in both software engineering and non-software engineering areas throughoutthe curriculum.State of the fieldThe “across the curriculum” paradigm is well recognized. One of the best-known examples isthat of writing across the curriculum, which has been influential in higher education for anumber of years. A number of efforts have specifically addressed computing curricula. Arnowet al.1 describe teaching distributed computing across the computing curriculum. An NSF-funded effort toward development of teaching social impact and ethics across the computingcurriculum spans a
theoretical framework of this study is organized by major topics such as Education forSustainable Development, Sustainability Literacy, and the integration of ESD into curricula. 2.1 Education for Sustainable DevelopmentSustainability is a multidimensional concept [8]. Defining sustainability involves the adoption ofthree key dimensions that drive sustainable development (SD): environmental, social, andeconomic dimensions [8, 9]. Additionally, [10] stated SD is an endeavor to ensuring anequilibrium among economic growth, environmental integrity, and social well-being. As a result,understanding the environmental, social, and economic dimensions as well as theirinterconnections implies a certain level of complexity in the effort of incorporating