has extensive experience providing instruction for engineering and technology students, including Purdue’s first-year engineering program. Her research interests include finding effective methods for integrating information literacy knowledge into the undergraduate engi- neering curriculum. Ms. Van Epps has a BA in engineering science from Lafayette College, her MSLS from Catholic University of America, a M.Eng. in Industrial Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and is currently working on her PhD in Engineering Education at Purdue.Mrs. Nastasha E. Johnson, Purdue University, West Lafayette Nastasha Johnson is the Physical and Mathematical Sciences Information Specialist for Purdue Libraries and
problem set [3], [4]. Drawn from models of professionaltraining in medicine, and touted as a student-centered learning strategy, project-based, orproblem-based learning (PBL) has become a popular model to integrate specific challenges ofprofessional engineering into the learning process by incorporating the complexities of humanand site-based work into engineering curriculum [5], [6]. While pointing out the overly-broadrange of instructional methods justified under this title, critics agree that the active andcollaborative processes have value for student learning in engineering [7], [8], [5].For civil and environmental engineers, whose work is often connected to construction, land, andwater issues on specific sites, and whose work heavily
advanced robotics curriculum that aligned with that of its university partner.Even with grant funding, creating separate academic programs to meet each of the diverserequests from area employers was impractical. Instead, Bay College and Michigan TechUniversity aimed to create a single program that contained elements of each employer request.For example, rather than creating an entire program surrounding the need for graduates with anelectronics skillset, and yet another program focusing on hydraulics and pneumatics, a singleprogram would be created that included introductory coursework in each of these areas and thatallowed students to customize the remainder of their educational experience to the specificindustry or employer they wanted to target
integrated schedule,program assessment, and an in-depth look at the key components – presentation ofteaching pedagogy, veteran classes, new faculty practice classes, class assessments forboth veteran and new faculty, and administrative classes that help smooth new facultytransition into the department. We will also highlight a one-week course for thoseschools that are not able to devote time to train their own faculty. We will assess the CME faculty training program’s effectiveness both through thecomments of those new instructors who have participated in the program as well ascomparison of their student ratings to other instructors at the USMA. Through thisassessment, we will show whether the faculty training program is an effective use
Session 2525 Re-Engineering Open-ended Problems & Computer Simulations For Effective Development of Student Design Skills R. J. Eggert and S. A. Tennyson Boise State University Boise, Idaho 83725ABSTRACTConsidering the broad philosophy of Design Across the Curriculum (DAC), a variety ofstrategies can be employed to integrate engineering design coursework during the four-yearcurriculum using just-in-time learning, an increasing breadth-then-depth approach. Thesophomore and junior years, in particular, can be used to reinforce
individual labsrepresentative of potential design challenges (with scope and complexity commensurate with thestudents’ current level). It was deemed essential to introduce the students to this "real world"engineering experience as early in their academic career as their capability allowed as an "careerinterest grabber". A second objective of this approach was to "encourage" the students to callupon a broad range of previous course(s) experience(s) to successfully complete each weeklydesign challenge. The final objective of the course was to maximize the opportunity for thestudents to have an early "hands on" experience with actual industry-standard components,equipment and software.The curriculum offering sequence of the lab course follows the
presentations and general progress.It is important to repeat that the faculty mentor is one of the keys to a successful project.Although the mentor is not expected to do the work he/she is expected to be the “guideon the side” to make sure that the goals and objectives are being met and that the projectis brought to a successful completion. Page 4.512.8IV. Project VenueIn general the project venue will be an established course in the curriculum. A “full”project that includes most of the components of the product realization process could bestbe implemented in a three credit hour course in the curriculum the primary focus ofwhich is the project. Some planned
and reports, the committee engaged in an all-encompassing and exhaustive discussion of all possible changes to the CEPC. The final product was an initial draft of the proposed Civil Engineering Program Criteria. The road to consensus started with a question: To what extent does the typical baccalaureate-level civil engineering program have room for more accreditation requirements given the credit-hour constraints on civil engineering programs around the country? Committee member opinions ranged from the current curriculum being full already to there is still room for seven to eight additional substantive accreditation requirements. The most common response was there is still room for three to
Paper ID #43911Take this Job and Love It: Identity-Conscious Self-Reflection as a Tool toSupport Individualized Career Exploration for Graduating Biomedical EngineeringStudentsDr. Uri Feldman, Wentworth Institute of Technology Uri Feldman is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Engineering at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. He received a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. As a
that work in the real world, with all the attendantconstraints. Therefore, “a new kind of engineer is needed, an engineer who is fully aware of thesystemic nature of the challenges we face” [10]. In response to this and recently revisedaccreditation requirements, there are currently many efforts to introduce sustainable developmentconcepts in various courses across engineering departments to promote an awareness ofsustainability and environmental impact issues and produce sustainability-conscious engineers.Embedding sustainability within the curriculum does not simply mean including new content[11]. If engineers are to contribute meaningfully to sustainable development, sustainability mustbecome part of their paradigm and affect every day
capstone course. It utilizes skills and knowledge acquired in various courses in the curriculum and general education courses to produce a real-life project. In this course, students follow a faculty driven structured process to integrate various components of a project. This course introduces very little new material, rather it helps the student to synthesize skills and knowledge learned in other courses to apply in real-life situations. Prerequisite(s): Department Approval, Upper Division Status, recommended in the final semester, CON357, ARC 364 and CON401W. Level: 400 Credits:3 (FSC Website) The syllabus adapted for the course in 2017 guided students to demonstrate integration ofthe various skills for
curriculum developer,with several challenges. These challenges include defining the applied cryptographycourse with respect to course goals, scope, content, and organization. While there arewell-established cryptography courses offered in the Computer Science and Mathematicsdisciplines, these classes tend to focus on mathematical foundations rather than servicesand applications. Consequently, the developer of such courses finds that resourcesparticularly those relating to “hands-on” activities are lacking.For a lab module designer, creating modules that support an applied cryptography classpresents several unique challenges. For example, the choice of laboratory softwarepresents a unique challenge. This is especially true since most commercial
which improve the efficiencyof delivery of course content while maximizing value-added student activities where interactionswith the instructor and TAs are prized. These techniques include a “flipped classroom” model, on-line video instructional materials, efficient content modularization and customizability, automatedfeedback, integrated assessment mechanisms and team-based in-class activities. A high proportionof class time is structured to support creative project work where students appropriate CAD skillsby applying them to creative problem solving. It is the opinion of the authors that this blendedlearning methodology has the potential to provide a just-in-time delivery of instruction which canbe customized to meet an individual student’s
VOLTA can be used as an effective learning tool in circuits’ laboratories.1. IntroductionLaboratories have always been an integral part of the engineering education, where engineeringconcepts were reinforced by hands-on experience in laboratory experiments. Traditional on-siteexperiment-based laboratories have several limitations, such as expensive laboratory resources,limited space, schedule conflicts and short term exposure. Therefore, it is necessary to find Page 26.449.2alternative methods for enhancing the engineering laboratory experience.1,2.Over the past few decades, interesting laboratories have been developed in different branches
risk of making incorrect assumptions, oversimplifying cultural considations, and/orproviding a useless or possibly even harmful solution for the community.Alternatively, program leaders and students can have the community more integrated into theprogram and project development. This will take more time and energy by all the participants,and will require a deeper type of contextual listening, and will likely not fit well within moretraditional academic structures. The process of deciding the relationship the program wants tohave with their community needs to be an ongoing dialog, grounded in historical context andreflection. Hopefully, at the end of the workshop, the participants will be on a path of reflection,thinking about their current
Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation, and a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Dr. Pearson currently chairs ASCE’s Formal Engineering Education Committee, and is Vice Chair of ASCE’s Committee on Diversity and Inclusion.Dr. Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Rice University Canek Phillips (P’urepecha) is a postdoctoral research associate at Rice University in the Brown School of Engineering. Canek’s research interests broadly relate to efforts to broaden participation in engineering. Currently, he is working on a project to improve mathematics education for visually impaired students.Dr. Margaret E. Beier, Rice University Margaret Beier is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Rice
and participate in capstone projects to achieve substantive deliverables that do not result ina working product or system.Students building a working prototype product or system are operating in primarily in theproduct-oriented, phase of the complete system development life cycle. There are hiddenassumptions in the design of capstone courses that encourage students to work in that phase.A student team can accomplish the learning objectives of a technical capstone project byfollowing a clearly defined design and development process resulting in project deliverables thatare not a working prototype.Recently, an Information Technology (IT) capstone student team at Brigham Young Universityselected a project that requires them to follow a systems
, and energy harvesting. He teaches courses in design, control systems, and mechatronics at the University of Delaware. He also works on developing just-in-time resources to promote skill confidence and creativity in student design projects.Jenni Buckley (Associate Professor) Jenni M. Buckley is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Delaware (UD). She has over 10 years of engineering experience in medical device design and biomechanical evaluation and has research interests in human factors design, medical device development, and equity and inclusion issues in engineering education. She teaches a range of courses across the mechanical engineering curriculum, including CAD, mechanics, and
, Cornell University Matthew Ford received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and materials science from the University of California, Berkeley, and went on to complete his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at North- western University. After completing an internship in quantitative methods for education research with the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL), he joined the Cornell Active Learning Initiative as a postdoctoral associate. His teaching interests include solid mechanics, engineering design, and inquiry-guided learning.Dr. Hadas Ritz, Cornell University Hadas Ritz is a senior lecturer in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and a Faculty Teaching Fellow at the
forimplementing them. In all three fields, there is a consensus among experts that education shouldbe relevant to problems in the real world and inquiry- or design-based. According to thesedocuments, both science and math education should emphasize applications to problems of technology, and technology education should be centered around analysis and problem-solving. ! In most of the discussions of curriculum reform, however, there is an odd neglect of acritical problem. The vast majority of teachers currently in the system have been narrowly trainedin ways often diametrically opposed to the new calls for contextual, interdisciplinary learning.Math
assistant for the Center for Enhancement of Engineering Diversity and an advisor for international senior design projects in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Ash- ley received her MS in Mechanical Engineering, MPH in Public Health Education, and BS in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech. Her research interests include broadening participation in engineering, the integration of engineering education and international development, and building capacity in low and middle income countries through inclusive technical education.Dr. Cherie D. Edwards, Virginia Tech Dr. Cherie D. Edwards is a Postdoctoral Associate in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Research and
regions. Cluster is understood as a group of adjacent interrelatedcompanies and connected with them organizations that work in a definite sphere. Thisassociation is characterized by commonness of activity. They mutually reinforce each other.Therefore some researchers point out their positive role in the national economy [9]. Duringthe recent years the term “cluster” was defined rather precisely: it is an industry-specificgeographic concentration of enterprises, closely related branches, mutually promoting eachother’s marketability. Many researchers emphasize strategic framework nature of cluster as itsattributive feature. Peculiar features of clusters are as follows: integrated dynamic structures,stable nuclear of distribution of new knowledge
2011, she has been a Teaching Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. Currently, she is the Education Director for the NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST).Dr. Pam Page Carpenter, Pam Page Carpenter, Ed.D is Director of Education programs for the National Science Foundation Fu- ture Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management (FREEDM) Systems Center headquartered at NC State University. She has developed and led K-20 programs in renewable energy and alternative transportation with a focus on and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). She is an
, otheruniversities can adopt and adapt these activities to use in their programs.1. IntroductionChoosing a major is a daunting task for many first-year college students, especially if the choicesspan fields with which students have little exposure and experience. It is estimated that 20 – 50%of first-year college students enter college as “undecided” about their major[7]. In order toprovide first-year engineering students time to discern, a set of resources and course activitieswere created and assessed in an introduction to engineering course. The results of two studies arepresented in this paper.The structure of the remainder of the paper is as follows. The next section describes theeducational theory relevant to this study, models of introduction to
Paper ID #34773Re-inventing a Mechanical Properties of Materials Laboratory Course forOnline LearningDr. Susan P. Gentry, University of California, Davis Dr. Susan P. Gentry is an Associate Professor of Teaching Materials Science and Engineering at the Uni- versity of California, Davis. In her current position at UC Davis, she is integrating computational modules into the undergraduate and graduate materials curriculum. She is specifically interested in students’ com- putational literacy and life-long learning of computational materials science tools.Gianmarco Sahragard-Monfared, University of California, Davis Gianmarco
University, Nagel has helped to develop and teach the six course engineering design sequence which represents the spine of the curriculum for the Department of Engineering. The research and teaching interests of Dr. Nagel tend to revolve around engineering design and engineering design education, and in particular, the design conceptualization phase of the design process. He has performed research with the US Army Chemical Corps, General Motors Research and Development Center, and the US Air Force Academy, and he has received grants from the NSF, the EPA, and General Motors Corporation.Dr. Julie S Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Julie S. Linsey is an Assistant Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of
-graduation.Integrating STARs into the CurriculumSTARs are integrated into the ABE undergraduate curriculum during the first semester in both ofour Agricultural Engineering (AE) and Agricultural Systems Technology (AST) programs. Bothprograms have a first semester orientation class (Engr 101 and AST 110) that meets for one houreach week for fifteen weeks. Both orientation classes have integrated two periods on BBI andSTARs.During the first period students are introduced to fourteen ISU Competencies that are used to inour learning outcomes assessment process. Students are asked to read and reflect on thedescriptions of the seven of these core workplace competencies: Engineering Knowledge,General Knowledge, Analysis and Judgment, Communication, Continuous Learning
Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationconstructivist approach it is the responsibility of students to integrate new building blocks intotheir knowledge base, and the task of the instructor is to provide an environment in which thestudents can engage in the creation of their own knowledge. In a constructivist environmentstudents are naturally forced to make an assessment of what they already know and what theyneed to know to master a concept.Constructivism and experiential learning are complementary concepts: taking responsibility ofand engaging in our own learning. The concepts of constructivism and experiential learning areboth primarily based on the work of Piaget. 11 Constructivism
thecoursework required for their degree, there are also seminars offered which attempt to moreexplicitly connect the work and experiences of engineers to that of the K-12 mathematicsclassroom. There are five seminars offered over the course of the program and range in topic toinclude engineering, technology, curriculum, professional communities, and other aspects ofinterest to new teachers.This paper describes an activity used in one of these seminars to connect the Engineering DesignProcess to the content and process standards in the Common Core State Standards. In thissession, 10 engineering undergraduate students and 10 beginning mathematics teachersparticipating in the special program worked together to solve an engineering design challenge byusing
International Business from ESC Lille, Graduate School of Management. He is currently working on a Masters of Science in Program & Project Management, focusing on Aerospace Engineering and Learning Science research. He often represents Boeing internationally and domestically as a presenter and has authored PLM integration patents primary relating to advanced aircraft construction, PLM-CAD-CAM metrology and Learning Science research.Paul Newton, The Boeing Company Paul Newton Operational Concept Analyst, Modeling and Simulation Group Strategic Projects & Analysis, Phantom Works The Boeing Company paul.c.newton2@boeing.com 206-544-7641 As an Operational Concept Analyst for