PROBLEMS THROUGH DESIGN PROCESSES 16the base or “bottom part” more detachable to improve transportability, the group did not addressmaking the frame or “top part” more transportable as well. Because the students had devoted solittle of their conversation to re-stating the problem and clarifying what the client wanted, oneaspect of the problem did not emerge until after the design had already been produced.Research a need or problem. Many previous studies of novices’ design processes have been ina laboratory study where the only available source of information was the experimenter. In thesestudies, the researchers defined the ‘information gathering’ stage as asking for information fromthe experimenter, reading
school students by providing a design project to work on for 5-7 weeksduring or after school, each academic semester. The students build and learn about physics andengineering principles with their college mentors. The design project provides a naturalmechanism to spur a mentoring relationship. After the mentorship sessions, mentees demonstratehow their designs fulfill the design requirements via a competition held during DREAM Day.DREAM Day takes place at the end of the program and includes lectures and panel discussionson financial aid policies, tours of engineering laboratories, and information on STEM careers.Many of the students do not realize the opportunities that engineering and college present tothem, but when the Rice mentors inform
– including five years as the director of the Civil Engineering Division. As di- rector of the Civil Engineering Division at USMA, Dr. Lenox supervised nineteen faculty in the ABET- accredited civil engineering program. He was the USMA nominee for the 1997 Carnegie Foundation Professor of the Year Award. He served as chair of both the Civil Engineering Division and the Middle- Atlantic Section of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and as a member of ASCE’s Educational Activities Committee. Dr. Lenox also served as co-principal instructor of the NSF-supported Teaching Teachers to Teach Engineering (T4E) workshops at West Point in 1996, 1997, and 1998. Upon his retirement from the U.S. Army on October 1
touch, which can cause discomfort andincreased anxiety and distrac�ons in educa�onal se�ngs like classrooms, laboratories, and par�cularlyfast-paced environments that o�en change or require adap�ons (Bolourian et al., 2018; Dwyer et al.,2023; Kouo et al., 2021; Pesonen et al., 2020; Robert, 2023; Taylor et al., 2019; Ward & Webster, 2018).However, au�s�c traits also include deep focus and interests, aten�on to details, perceiving complexsequences and paterns, diligence, and steady work habits (Grandin, 2022). Au�s�c people o�en haverigid thinking and fixa�ons on one solu�on, idea, or process and are notorious rule followers (Kouo et al.,2022). This means that they may not be very good at cri�cal thinking and may lack pa�ence with
Paper ID #12215A Student Design, Develop, Test & Deploy Project: Perseus II - Developmentof an Unmanned Marine System for an Underwater Unexploded OrdnanceMissionMr. Michael DeLorme, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES) Mr. Michael DeLorme Mr. DeLorme has 11 years of professional experience as a Research Asso- ciate/Engineer at Stevens; Davidson Laboratory, DHS National Center for Secure and Resilient Maritime Commerce (CSR), and Systems Engineering Research Center. Research concentrations include exper- imental marine hydrodynamics, unmanned marine vehicles, the implementation of hydro-acoustics for the detection of
Paper ID #34808Introducing Engineering Principles in a Diverse InterdisciplinaryVirtual Summer Camp for Underrepresented 9th - 12th Graders in RuralLouisiana (Evaluation, Diversity)Dr. Mehmet Emre Bahadir, Southeastern Louisiana University Mehmet Emre Bahadir is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Technology at Southeastern Louisiana Uni- versity. His teaching and research interests are in the field of product design, industrial ecology, sustain- able manufacturing, and additive manufacturing.Dr. Ahmad Fayed, Southeastern Louisiana University Ahmad Fayed is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology, a former member
Paper ID #34826Introducing Multidisciplinary Engineering in a Diverse InterdisciplinaryVirtual Summer Camp for Underrepresented 9th - 12th Graders in RuralLouisiana (Evaluation, Diversity)Dr. Deborah Athas Dardis, Southeastern Louisiana UniversityDr. Ahmad Fayed, Southeastern Louisiana University Ahmad Fayed is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology, a former member of the Experiential Learning team, and the Teaching Excellence Team at Southeastern Louisiana University. Ahmad holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) and taught several engineering classes at multiple
Paper ID #43089Corsi-Rosenthal Box Learning Module: How Can We Make Clean Air Accessiblefor Schools? (Resource Exchange)Aaron Richardson, University of Connecticut Aaron Richardson studies and teaches with a focus on social and racial justice, accessibility, and creating relevant curriculum that will make use of students’ lived experiences and knowledge to help them bring their own personal meaning to their education and into the classroom. Aaron Richardson’s interest in the Corsi-Rosenthal Learning Module project revolved around accessible, relevant science and engineering education for students by using phenomena that
limited to steel, concrete,wood and masonry. Usually, only three out of four materials are covered in most civil engineer-ing curriculums.The programs are intensive in their teaching of math and science and a great amount of trainingis devoted to objective, critical and analytical thinking, supported by rigorous mathematicalanalysis, commonly computer-aided. Very little training in engineering education is devoted toaesthetics, space planning, and visual methods.Structural engineers are valued for their understanding of structural systems behavior, and theirability to quantitatively predict, evaluate and design it to prevent failures. This significant re-sponsibility requires a great deal of training, often forcing structural engineering
in Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. She is the Tier II Canada Research Chair in Thermofluidics for Clean Energy. In 2008, she received the inaugural Bullitt Environmental Fellowship for leadership in the environmental field. She was awarded the I.W. Smith Award for Outstanding achievement in creative mechanical engineering within 10 years of graduation (2011) and the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation Early Researcher Award (2012). She is the Director of the Thermofluids for Energy and Advanced Materials (TEAM) Laboratory working in fuel cells, electrolyzers, and subsurface geology. In 2014 she became a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering and was
, and Openscaledemonstrate and provide emergent solutions that can be applied to manufacturing, medicine,aerospace, and other complex systems. This research paper will demonstrate the above conceptsas applied to an engineering manufacturing case study data using IBM Waton opensclae.BackgroundSystem Engineering (SE) LifecycleThe term System Engineering from Bell Laboratories came into vogue in the early 1940s and hasbeen extensively used initially with military systems starting with WWII [3]. With highereducation now teaching SE, this system approach today is used to solve highly complexproblems both for the military and in private industries (e.g. Aerospace). The Department ofDefence (DoD) published and maintains an important document called
Valentina Rojas, University of FloridaSara is a senior civil engineering undergraduate student with a focus on construction at theUniversity of Florida. She is pursuing her bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering aswell as her construction management certificate. She is working as a research assistant in theSimmons Research Lab and the Weil Hall Structures & Materials Laboratory. Her researchinterests include leadership in engineering, the inclusion of minorities in the constructionindustry, and the development of sustainable materials at low cost. Building a Leadership Toolkit: Underrepresented Students’ Development of Leadership- Enabling Competencies through a Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates
Paper ID #36928Synthesizing Indicators of Quality across Traditions of NarrativeResearch MethodsMr. Kanembe Shanachilubwa, Pennsylvania State University Fourth-year doctoral student at Pennsylvania State University in the mechanical engineering department. Member of the Engineering Cognitive Research Laboratory (ECRL). Current research topics include grad- uate school attrition and persistence.Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University Catherine G.P. Berdanier is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Penn- sylvania State University. She earned her B.S. in Chemistry from The
materials recycling for pavement construction and numerical analysis in engineering appli- cations. He teaches Statics, Soil Mechanics and Foundation (Lectures and Labs), and Transportation Engineering Laboratories at CSU Chico.Dr. Kathleen Meehan, California State University, Chico Kathleen Meehan earned her B.S. in electrical engineering from Manhattan College and her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. After graduation, she worked at Lytel, Inc., Polaroid Corporation, and Biocontrol Technology. She moved into academia full-time in 1997 and worked at the University of Denver, West Virginia University, and Virginia Tech. From 2013 to 2017, she was the director of the Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Paper ID #32875Broadening Engineering Orientation for First-Year StudentsProf. Jill Davishahl, Western Washington University Jill Davishahl is Assistant Professor and First Year Programs Director in the Engineering + Design de- partment at Western Washington University. Jill’s teaching, service, and research activities focus on en- hancing the engineering and design first year student experience by providing the foundational technical skills, student engagement opportunities, and professional skill development necessary to improve suc- cess in the major, with emphasis on supporting traditionally underserved student
proposal reviewer for SAGE, Emerald, IGI Global, Palgrave Macmillan, and CyberTech Publishing. She is currently involved in a National Science Foundation Research in Formation of Engineers project as a Co-PI. She has served in manufacturing leadership roles for Coca-Cola Bot- tling Company Consolidated, Abbott Laboratories, and Burlington Industries. She is a national member of ATD and has twice presented at the ATD International Conference and Exposition. Dr. Hughes is a Langevin Certified Master Trainer, Harvard Management Development Fellow, and a Darden School of Business Minority Executive Education Scholar. She has a PhD in Career and Technical Education from Virginia Tech, Master of Textiles in Textile Technology
showcasing how to use SPSS software to analyze data, and required completion ofIRB training modules in order to learn how to conduct studies involving human participants.Additional choice activities included laboratory safety training, a session on Big Data, andattending research presentations hosted by several departments on campus.Course OutlineThis 3-credit hour course met once per week for 14 weeks. The following outline showcases theactivities conducted and assignments submitted each week.Week 1During the first class meeting all of the students enrolled in the course met together at thebeginning of the period. The dean of the Honors College provided an overview of research andthe diversity of research being conducted at the university. The
addition, there is the problem of getting classroom assessment from facultywho are not in the engineering or technology department that is being accredited. In view ofthese problems, I believe that the technical courses in the curriculum should contribute to theteaching and assessment of the soft-skills. In particular, some of these topics can be taught usingmaterial that is germane to the technical course.I teach a course titled, “Electrical Power and Controls,” in the Electrical Engineering TechnologyProgram. It is a fourth-semester course and is required for all students in the program. Thiscourse has been described previously1, but it includes topics such as single and three-phasepower, power quality, basic magnetics, transformers, induction
incollaborative research settings, especially at the graduate level. Graduate engineering studentsare immediately expected to assimilate into a laboratory group, usually an interdependent team,with varying degrees of guidance by faculty members. The group dynamics and the role of trustas graduate students learn to conduct collaborative research is underexplored, but may haveramifications for the way in which graduate programs are structured or in how graduate studentsare matched with potential research advisors.Other theories and research also seek to understand mechanisms by which experts innovate inprofessional settings, and many of these have been applied to engineering education. Theories ofdistributed cognition 20 have been employed to understand
Paper ID #20444Development of a Web-based Decision Tool for Selection of Distributed En-ergy Resources and Systems (DERS) for Moving College and Corporate Cam-puses Toward Net-Zero EnergyDr. Christopher J. Damm, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Christopher Damm is Professor and Director of the Mechanical Engineering Program at the Milwau- kee School of Engineering where he teaches courses in thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, engineering design, renewable energy and advanced energy technologies. Dr. Damm’s research and con- sulting focus on energy conversion and pollutants associated with energy conversion
associate professor of chemistry at Tuskegee University where she specializes in physical chemistry and computational chemistry. Her research interests have ranged from calculating transition states of small molecule reactions in solution to molecular dynamics of polymers. She has worked on two American Chemical Society Physical Chemistry Exam Committees and is an active participant in the Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning Physical Chemistry Laboratory (POGIL-PCL) community.Carol A Handwerker Carol Handwerker is the Reinhardt Schuhmann, Jr. Professor of Materials Engineering at Purdue Univer- sity. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Critical incident
Foundation (NSF) funded projects: Professional Formation of Engineers: Research Initiation in Engineering Formation (PFE: RIEF) - Using Digital Badging and Design Challenge Modules to Develop Professional Identity; Professional Formation of Engineers: REvolutionizing engineering and computer science Departments (IUSE PFE\RED) - Formation of Accomplished Chemical Engineers for Transform- ing Society. She is a member of the CBE department’s ABET and Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, as well as faculty advisor for several student societies. She is the instructor of several courses in the CBE curriculum including the Material and Energy Balances, junior laboratories and Capstone Design courses. She is associated with
introductory engineering classes where certain students just can’t keep up with the rest of the class. Not everyone is cut out for engineering, not everyone has the natural intelligence, the grit, the academic background necessary for success. Certain students are struggling in this class, especially the students from disadvantaged backgrounds and groups. They ask a lot of questions in office hours, they work slowly, they seem lost in laboratory sessions. If they are struggling so deeply and so early, perhaps they aren’t going to make it. We feel bad for them and would like to help, but aren’t sure how to motivate them or catch them up. Do they need extra office hours? But there’s not time to help
design, Microcomputer Architecture, Microcontrollers, Nan- otechnology, and Renewable Energy Systems. In recent years, she has worked with colleagues to apply these technologies to Biomass research, Solar Cells efficiency capture research, and Renewable Energy Curriculum developments. Dr. Ososanya teaches a myriad of Electrical Engineering courses and labs, including Electric Circuits, Digital Systems courses, VLSI, VHDL, Solar Energy (PV) and Solar Thermal systems, Mechatronics, and Electrical Engineering Senior Project design courses. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 A Graduate Project on the Development of a Wearable Sensor Platform Powered by
further argued students who complete advanced mathematics and science courseswhile in high school are more academically prepared to pursue and succeed in STEM degreeprograms and professions2,7–12. Adelman8 explains that students at a minimum need to completethree and three-quarters worth of credits in mathematics in high school to successfully pursue abachelor’s degree. Further, students need to complete two and half credits in science, with twoof those having a laboratory portion8. Adelman8 recommends as mathematics courses calculus,pre-calculus, or trigonometry, and the science courses he recommends includes a combination ofbiology, chemistry, and physics. These are the same courses ANSEP recommends high schoolstudents to complete19. Adelman8
2006)12; and ParliamentaryLaw No. 562 (“PL 562” hereafter) which set out to merge the nation’s 150 specialized semi-professional colleges into a new system of eight regional “University Colleges.” This was donefor the purpose of simultaneously expanding educational access, controlling cost, and upholdingthe status of “medium cycle” bachelor’s degrees—generally semi-professional degrees in fieldssuch as teaching or nursing, but also more traditional, craft-oriented programs in engineering.While PL 562 affects primarily the Diplom (baccalaureate) institutions, it has had compleximplications for all engineering degree programs and institutions in Denmark.The tension between neoliberal policies and social welfare principles is also evident
, and informal interactions with students. This informal training also illuminated theparticular pressure points within the engineering school experience: the timing of homework andexams, the laboratory experiences, and the general rhythm of when academic stress runs at itshighest level. We correlate these experiences with some of the by-major results presented later. Page 26.1049.9Results and discussionMotivation for the data presented here. Our dataset is rich with respect to the students we havesupported over the years: 297 students who experienced a wide range of challenges. The datasetanalysis continues, and the results presented here are
Associate Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters.Ms. Maggie Varga, Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education Maggie Varga, Chief Operating Officer, Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE) Maggie Varga is the COO for the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE). In this capacity, Maggie leads the SOCHEIntern Program, which employs nearly 300 students annually in co- operation with local government and small businesses, as well as the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The program provides high impact experiential learning opportunities for students while generating economic bene- fit and enhancing
Undergraduate Curriculum Com- mittee, as well as faculty advisor for several student societies. She is the instructor of several courses in the CBE curriculum including the Material and Energy Balances, junior laboratories and Capstone De- sign courses. She is associated with several professional organizations including the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and American Society of Chemical Engineering Education (ASEE) where she adopts and contributes to innovative pedagogical methods aimed at improving student learning and retention.Victor Law, Program of Organization, Information, and Learning Sciences at University of New Mexico Dr. Victor Law is an Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico in the