Paper ID #25167Board 112: A STEM Training Program to Improve Middle and High SchoolVEX Competition OutcomesMr. Ryan Bobby Tang Dan, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology Ryan B. Tang Dan is a senior in the Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering Master’s of Science Program at New York University Tandon School of Engineering. He currently works as an adjunct laboratory in- structor for courses such as Introduction to Robotics. Ryan is still an active member of the Vaughn College Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Competition team and works as a faculty advisor to the team. Furthermore, Ryan Tang is the head coach of the VEX
, Dr. Subburaj was working as an Assistant professor for the Department of Computer Science at Baldwin Wallace University, Ohio from 2013. Her research interests include software specification languages, re- liable software development, software security, automated software systems, and formal methods. She is passionate about teaching software engineering courses and increasing women in computing disciplines. She has published more than 10 technical papers and has authored a textbook chapter. She was selected to attend AACU’s and Project Kaleidoscope’s 2015 Summer Leadership Institute. She was an invited PhD forum speaker at 2012 Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing. She has also been an active
capstone design teaching and assessment, undergraduate en- gineering student leadership development, and social network analysis. He is also a licensed professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia.Lt. Col. Russell P Lemler, U.S. Military Academy at West Point Lieutenant Colonel Russell P. Lemler, U.S. Army, is an assistant professor and Military Leadership pro- gram director in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at West Point. He has held a variety of military and educational assignments, and completed a Ph.D. in management from Columbia Business School in 2013. His research interests include leader development, leadership education, and identity. c American
campus to conserve water waste. In June of 2018, I began my Master’s Degree in Project Management at Illinois State University. Currently, I work as the graduate assistant for the Office of Sustainability and continue to research methods for reducing the University’s carbon footprint.Dr. Matthew Aldeman, Illinois State University Matthew Aldeman is an Assistant Professor of Technology at Illinois State University, where he teaches in the Renewable Energy and Engineering Technology programs. Matt joined the Technology department faculty after working at the Illinois State University Center for Renewable Energy for over five years. Previously, he worked at General Electric as a wind site manager at the Grand Ridge and
Jennifer Case is Head and Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She holds an honorary position at the University of Cape Town. Her research on the student experience of learning, focusing mainly on science and engineering education, has been published across a range of journal articles in higher education and her recent book, Researching student learning in higher education: A social realist approach published in 2013 by Routledge. She holds an academic development post in the Department of Chemical Engineering at UCT, and teaches in the undergraduate programme there. She is a coordinating editor for the international journal Higher Education and a co-editor for the Routledge/SRHE
AC 2007-951: ENGINEERING ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR HIGH SCHOOL ANDEARLY COLLEGE STUDENTSKaren High, Oklahoma State University KAREN HIGH earned her B.S. from the University of Michigan in 1985 and her M.S. in 1988 and Ph.D. in 1991 from the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. High is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University where she has been since 1991. Her main research interests are Sustainable Process Design, Industrial Catalysis, and Multicriteria Decision Making. Other scholarly activities include enhancing creativity in engineering practice and teaching science to education professionals. Dr. High is a trainer for Project Lead the Way pre
Floyd has been teaching in Brownsburg for 7 years, with the past 5 years at the middle school level. She has been instrumental in piloting and promoting the Project Lead the Way Gateway to Technology program for Brownsburg. In addition to serving as Technology Education Department head, Chris is currently a member of the TECCA (Technology Education Curriculum Crosswalk Activity) project working with the Indiana Department of Education to develop technology activities for the State, and is the IEEE Pre-College Engineering Committee K-12 Liaison. Page 12.1476.1© American Society for
. She has numerous years of experience in elementary school education and is an adjunct faculty for Concordia University (Portland, OR) teaching science methods. She currently serves on Oregon Department of Education’s Science Content and Assessment Panel.Catherine Lanier, Oregon NASA Space Grant Consortium CATHERINE LANIER is the Assistant Director of the Oregon NASA Space Grant Consortium which is housed at Oregon State University. In addition to overseeing the operations of all OSGC programs, she is instrumental in the growth of the Oregon’s BalloonSat program. She created the LaunchOregon identity which currently unifies six affiliate university high-altitude balloon programs
planSite reclamation & · Developed area reclamation and solid waste management plansolid wastemanagementSince ISD’s inception, 13.7% of our civil and environmental engineering undergraduate seniors Page 13.793.4have selected this course over conventional senior design, even though the laboratory fee andtime requirements are much greater. Ownership of the student design projects is so great that18% of ISD alumni have returned for additional ISD in-country experiences as mentors and classassistants. Table 2 provides a comparison of ISD participants and mentors by major and gender.The ISD model also meets all of the U.S. Accreditation Board
AC 2008-628: NATIONALLY NORMED EXAMS FOR OUTCOMES ASSESSMENTOF ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS AND CERTIFICATION OFENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY GRADUATESCarmine Balascio, University of Delaware Carmine C. Balascio, Ph.D., P.E. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioresources Engineering at the University of Delaware. He earned bachelor’s degrees in Agricultural Engineering Technology and Mathematics from U.D. He earned an M.S. in Agricultural Engineering and a Ph.D. double major in Agricultural Engineering and Engineering Mechanics from Iowa State University. He teaches courses in surveying, soil mechanics, and storm-water management and has research interests in urban hydrology and water
Cincinnati, with specialization in human factors engineering. Dr. Pennathur's interests are in the science of learning in engineering education. Dr. Pennathur has considerable expertise in human behavioral research methods. He has developed human behavior and performance models in personnel skills and training for advanced electromechanical troubleshooting and fault-finding tasks, disability models in older adults (work funded by NIH), and modeling physical and mental workload for soldier safety and performance (work funded by the US Army Research Laboratory jointly with Fort Bliss and William Beaumont Army Medical Center). These projects have all included extensive instrumentation, calibration, and
minimum of four (4) recognized major civil engineering areas (Remembering); the ability to conduct laboratory experiments and to critically analyze and interpret data in more than one of the recognized major civil engineering areas; the ability to perform civil engineering design by means of design experiences integrated throughout the professional component of the curriculum (Creating); and an understanding of professional practice issues such as: procurement of work, bidding versus quality-based selection processes, how the design professionals and the construction professions interact to
Paper ID #7626Examining the Intersection of Graduate Student Funding, Mentoring andTraining as a Mechanism of Success for Peer Mentors and their MenteesDr. Frances Carter-Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dr. Carter-Johnson is responsible for research and evaluation of several undergraduate education ini- tiatives at MIT in her role as a Postdoctoral Associate for Educational Research in the Teaching and Learning Laboratory. She completed her PhD in Public Policy with a concentration in evaluation and an- alytical methods from the University of Maryland Baltimore County. As a result of years of academic and
Editorial Committee. He is IEEE Senior Member, Past Chairman of the Spanish Chapter and, as member of the Board of Governors Committee of the IEEE Education Society, he is currently chair of the Distinguished Lectures Program for the IEEE Education Society and vice chair of the Standards committee.Mr. Jorge A. Lopez-Vargas, Universidad T´ecnica Particular de Loja Engineer and Computer Systems at the Technical University of Loja, Jorge Lopez-Vargas is currently a Ph.D. student in Advanced Technologies in Software Engineering, Distributed Environments and Intel- ligent Systems at the University of Madrid. He earned his diploma in Advanced Studies - DEA (June 2009). Currently Lopez-Vargas is teaching at the School of
than theoretical innature. Engineering technology programs, in contrast to engineering programs, focus onapplication and implementation while the latter often focus on theory and conceptual design1.The two different types of programs have been compared by the industry and academia in recentyears. Engineering graduates hired by the industry are not ready to start working from day onewithout additional training – and often many months of it. According to Groose2, that’s becausemost graduates come from research-based schools that emphasize the engineering sciences andtheory over the teaching of practical applications of that knowledge. On the other, engineeringtechnology graduates may lack of fundamental knowledge that may be needed to
Paper ID #9491A Systematic Approach to Prepare for ABET AccreditationDr. Vincent Wilczynski, Yale University Vincent Wilczynski is the Deputy Dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Yale Univer- sity. As the Deputy Dean, Dr. Wilczynski helps plan and implement all academic initiatives at the School. In addition, he manages the School’s teaching and research resources and facilities, including establishing the Yale Center for Engineering Innovation and Design. Previously Dr. Wilczynski served as the Dean of Engineering at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Dr. Wilczynski served in fellowships at the MIT
Spring 2006,with the first course to begin in August, 2006. The objectives of this program were to “1) delivera knowledge and performance-based course of study focused on the knowledge, skills, andabilities needed to manage and deliver technical projects, 2) provide advanced professionaldevelopment education and training opportunities for experienced professionals, and 3) supportother academic programs in the education and training of their students” [5]. Since Dr.Plemmons was the only faculty member qualified and available to teach the TPM courses, onlyone course was offered per semester for the next two years. The first TPM cohort graduated inMay of 2008 with 4 students.Classes and student growth continued, but progress was limited due to Dr
experience in construction, engineering, and research and eight years of academic experience. He was Co-Chair of the ASCE Civil Engineering in the Oceans V conference. He was the only manager in the 55-year history of the Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory ever to win the Employee-of-the-Year Award. He has won numerous awards for project management. He has conducted research for the Construction Industry Institute, Center for Construction Industry Studies, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, OSHA and other organizations. He has published 45 journal and conference pa- pers. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and the M.S. and B.S. in Ocean Engineering from Texas A&M University
could be realised in practice by following the three stage philosophy of learning described byWhitehead. This model was based on experimental work in the teaching of engineering and technology that hadbeen completed in the post-primary system of education (high school) in Ireland. While the content and methodapplicable to each of the three stages of the Whitehead cycle was illustrated there was no in-depth discussion of thecomponents of each of these stages.The purpose of this paper is to consider in detail problems in the design of the first stage of the cycle called –“Romance”. The paper begins with a short introduction to Whitehead’s philosophy of rhythm in education.As conceived here the stage of romance for a program in engineering and
Leader Senior Design, High School Engineering Design ProjectsRusty Male Civil Engineering Technical Problem- Global Engineering, Senior Solver DesignStan Male Chemical Engineering Lab Specialist/Solo Laboratory Research, Senior Worker DesignZachery Male Aeronautical Engineering “Operations Guy” Internship, High School Competition
to sales, marketing and general management. He founded the School of Engineering at the University of St. Thomas, and teaches and publishes in the areas of materials engineering, innovation, strategy, technology transfer, leadership and engineering education. His current focus is on webinars and workshops on leader- ship for engineers in industry and academia. Bennett is a member of numerous scientific and professional societies, is an ABET program evaluator and commissioner. He has a wide variety of academic publica- tions, and is co-author with Elaine Millam of the 2012 McGraw-Hill book Leadership for Engineers: The Magic of Mindset.Mr. Mark J. Stratton, SME Mark Stratton is the Education Relations Manager
Session 1190 Drag the Green Ion - An Interactive Online Quantitative Cellular Biology Learning Module Matthew Verleger, Heidi Diefes-Dux, Jenna Rickus, Scott Schaffer Purdue University West Lafayette, INAbstractThe goal of bioengineering education is the marriage of quantitative engineering with traditionaldescriptive biology. The successful merging of these two disciplines at the undergraduate levelhas been hampered by the limited availability of appropriate curricular materials and educationalresources. Few resources have been developed to aide instructors in teaching and
Society for Engineering Education”2. To teach students about types of fasteners, and parts of a screw.3. To teach students about, at minimum, one important property of machine screws.It is expected that the student will be familiar with PC’s, spreadsheets and some very elementarystatistical tools.FastenersTypesThere are many types of common threaded fasteners. Figure 1 shows a number of them inschematic form. Of particular interest for this experiment are the different types of recesseddrives found on the heads of the fasteners. Most common in ordinary use are the slot, hex,phillips and torx heads. The focus here will be on the slot, phillips, and combination slot/phillipshead screws (Figure 2).Machine ScrewsThe elements of a machine
future coursework.2. Rationale for the CourseA simple problem statement for the course we are developing is to teach mathematical problemsolving in a way that leads to transfer of knowledge and skills to future coursework. We focusedon the solution of difficult, but well defined problems because this is a major deficiency in thestudents we see. We also included the formulation of real-world problems, which usually are notwell defined, contain both incomplete and unnecessary data, and lack a clearly defined objective.Engineers need a solid foundation in solving well defined problems in order to solve these realworld problems. Page 10.922.1
independentof time. The result is either right or wrong. This is not the case with solutions to projects.A project, however, deals with the future stated or explored. Projecting is to “throw some-thing forward” (Project from Latin, Pro- (forward) + iare (throw)) [10]. The demands to aproject solution always include requirements from the future in which the solution shall becarried out by manufacturing or implementing processes. The demands include requirementsalso from that future in which the solution is expected to be useful. The projects themselvesinclude the future again also even if the whole work is made in the laboratory of the univer-sity.However, about the future nobody knows except by forecasts, by hypotheses, in the form oftheories
to implementing this applied research robotics project in the ELET492 Senior Design course, where student teams build robotics for our defense agency clients,was realized with their success in the annual International Ground Robotics VehicleCompetition. This program became a definite benefit to motivating our students as well assatisfying our clients.ELET 492 is a two credit hour course with a one hour meeting and three laboratory hours eachweek to include the design and fabrication of a project in the field of engineering technologyunder the supervision of an instructor, culminating in a written report and an oral defense of theselected project before a select faculty committee and other invited guests. Successful projectshave resulted in
rocket flight. The theory was covered along withhands-on experiences. The following sections describe the camp’s use of robotics for geometryand spatial coordinate systems, elevators for Newton’s Laws, and paper airplanes for center ofgravity/center of pressure stability discussions.Robotics The robotics session exposed campers to robotic applications ranging frommanufacturing robots to space robots to nanorobots. Following this discussion the campers wereintroduced to the robots in Bradley’s Robotic Laboratory using a six-axis industrial robot, a four-axis industrial robot and various small robot kits. The campers were taught the concepts of robotcontrol with both programs and teach-pendent movements. In the hands-on component
during the last decade, juxtaposed to aprogram intervention approach has been approaches for “systemic change.” Many have suggested that the questionto be addressed instead of “How do these women need to change?” ought to be “What needs to be changed in thesefields, disciplines, and institutions so that more women will be attracted to them?” Within this framework, greaterattention is paid to institutional and related features of the fields of study, modes of instruction, organizationalpolicies, cultural practices, and structural elements that may impede women’s full participation and success. Underconsideration, for example, are admissions policies, teaching practices, faculty rewards and incentives, and otherforms of assessment, curricular
term “multi-disciplinary,” the ability to function on ateam is central to this outcome.Though an effort to achieve this ABET outcome is sufficient motivation for many instructors toevaluate teamwork in some way, peer evaluation that assesses each individual’s contributions toa team has the additional objective of promoting a productive cooperative learning environment.Cooperative learning (CL) is an instructional paradigm wherein teams of students work onstructured tasks (e.g., homework assignments, laboratory experiments, or design projects) underconditions that meet five criteria: positive interdependence, individual accountability, face-to-face interaction, appropriate use of collaborative skills, and regular self-assessment of
accessible to all engineering undergraduates. Leveraging recent technologicaldevelopments, our aim is to create, in essence, a single engineering college offering access to thecombined courses and resources of NAU and our foreign partner institutions; students at oneuniversity will be able to participate - via an appropriate combination of direct (in person)participation and internet technologies (distributed teaming) - in engineering design coursesoffered at any partner university. An important side benefit in this age of dwindling educationalresources is that students will have access to a much wider array of specialized elective topics,laboratory equipment and practical experiences (the totality of courses/facilities available at allpartner