,” ASEE AnnualConference Proceedings, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 15-18, 1997. David Lopez, a professor aCentral Michigan University, vividly describes the instruction methodology that he uses in hisundergraduate manufacturing engineering technology class. His approach favors a “hands-on”project format over the previously used lecture format. His classes are divided into teams ofstudents, and each team analyzes an entire product by dissecting it into its component parts.Each student team writes and submits an engineering report that is evaluated. He concludes thatwhile the projects emphasize concepts such as design for assembly, design for manufacturability,concurrent engineering overall product quality, the success of the projects depend on
Paper ID #24018Study of Energy Efficiency Characteristics of a Hydraulic System Compo-nentDr. Alamgir A. Choudhury, Western Michigan University Alamgir A. Choudhury is an Associate Professor of Engineering Design, Manufacturing and Management Systems at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. His MS and PhD are in mechanical en- gineering from NMSU (Las Cruces) and BS in mechanical engineering from BUET (Dhaka). His interest includes computer applications in curriculum, MCAE, mechanics, fluid power, and instrumentation & control. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio and affiliated with
needed to answer two questions: What are other engineering schools doing to increasetheir enrollment? And what do we need to change in our recruiting process? The search forthese answers prompted my university to fund travel to evaluate other universities’ processes,look for common themes, and develop an action plan for our department. This paper will lookat the methodology of my research, the results and conclusions.Methodology As I considered how to best answer these questions, I decided that qualitative researchmethods were most applicable to this process. Lincoln and Guba (1985) summarize well the keyqualitative process concepts of: natural setting, human instrument, tacit knowledge, qualitativemethods, iterative research, and case
everyone, even though everything in the society pressures you into sameness – it is a handicap in the end. A handicap to live without knowing the struggle of difference – in all of its pain, its fear, its celebration, its compassion [2].”AbstractThis is an archival record of a proposed panel discussion for the 2021 ASEE Annual Conferenceand Exposition. It reflects a year-long conversation between the six co-authors. Panel attendeeswill be invited to join and expand upon that conversation. Further analyses and integration areplanned after the conference when we will have the benefit of other panel attendees’ commentsand their own narratives.Under ideal circumstances, engineering cultures in academia and industry bring out the best
concerns by providinga structured framework for matching students with appropriate projects and eliminates the time-consuming steps students previously faced. Aligned with UTSA’s broader “Career-ReadyRoadrunners” initiative, EZ-RA integrates experiential learning into the undergraduate curriculum,enhancing student readiness for professional careers and the department’s ability to deliver cutting-edge STEM education. Through EZ-RA, students gain accessible pathways to research, whilefaculty are empowered to mentor and collaborate effectively, fostering a sustainable model forundergraduate research excellence. Barriers to Undergraduate Research ParticipationThe current system for undergraduate research in the Electrical and
: So I think in a lot of ways that's…the complexity of the soft [professional] skills. And it's funny when we talk about soft skills. We don't mean that they're lesser than hard [technical] skills. It's that they're less definable.While Dr. James acknowledged the importance of teaching professional skills, he faceddifficulties in integrating these skills into the classroom because of their complexity and lack ofclarity. Due to the perceived challenges of including professional skills in the curriculum, out-of-class activities were offered as an important complement.Faculty members believed that students with experience outside the classroom are betterprepared for their careers through the acquisition of professional skills
% higher as compared with science and mathematics majors. The grantproposed to (1) integrate the science and mathematics majors with the engineering majors duringsummer orientation, (2) expand student learning community offerings to STEM majors, (3)create a General Sciences course for STEM students who are underprepared in mathematics, and(4) offer an elective, non-credit bearing mathematics online review course, free of charge, tostudents entering the university in STEM majors. An underlying and important rationale forwidening the advisement base to include all STEM majors in an inclusive manner is the fact thatmany freshmen are unsure of their major. Therefore orientation materials were prepared thatemphasized the commonalities between majors
the First Year Engineering Experience committee, chair for the LTU KEEN Course Modification Team, chair for the LTU Leadership Curriculum Committee, supervisor of the LTU Thermo-Fluids Laboratory, coordinator of the Certificate/Minor in Aeronautical Engineering, and faculty advisor of the LTU SAE Aero Design Team. Dr. Gerhart conducts workshops on active, collaborative, and problem-based learning, entrepreneurial mindset education, creative problem solving, and innovation. He is an author of a fluid mechanics textbook.Dr. Doug E. Melton, Kern Family Foundation c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Entrepreneurially Minded Learning: Incorporating Stakeholders, Discovery
what they have learned.This virtual lab provides the opportunity for students to practice in an environment close to thereal world problems.II. Need for Virtual LabIn the curriculum of computer networking technology, lab based hands-on activities will benefitthe learning experience because, typically, our students do not have the opportunity to get hands-on experience by themselves. To mimic a real world computer network situation, severalcomputers are needed to form a network and they serve as the client and server roles in thenetwork. The exercises listed below are typically required for students to better understand andretain the knowledge:• Setup client computer to be connected to network• Setup server computer to be connected to
strong reputation of excellence. He has developed a strong track record of teaching effectiveness based on consistently good teaching evaluations, and he has won some departmental awards in this area. Dr. Gonzalez and colleagues from UTPA and Michigan State University were awarded Honorable Mention in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2004 Curriculum Innovation Award competition. Furthermore, his service as an Associate Editor for The IEEE Transactions on Education has provided him with a means of enhancing and maintaining his knowledge on the issues affecting engineering education. In the area of professional achievement, he has been able to obtain over Four Million Dollars in funding for his academic
systems and automatic control. Dr. Guo is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ASEE.Mr. Jingbo Han, Northern Illinois University Jingbo Han earned the M.S in Electrical Engineering from Northern Illinois University in 2010.Dr. Andrew W Otieno, Associate Professor Dr. Andrew W. Otieno is an associate professor in the Department of Technology at Northern Illinois Uni- versity. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Leeds University in the United Kingdom. Dr. Otieno has worked in various capacities at several institutions both in the United States and abroad. Since joining the Department of Technology, Dr. Otieno has actively participated in curriculum development. He has extensively revised and
examine curriculum and rigor and to develop further opportunities to help studentsprepare for the transition to college.As mentioned above, these low-income students appear to be hyper-focused on obtaining acollege degree, but not necessarily an engineering degree. The scholars repeatedly talked abouthow a college degree will help them better their lives, but in these conversations, they very rarelytalked about an engineering degree. Their college-identity (or at least their purpose and goalsrelated to this part of their identity) seems to be further developed than their future-engineeridentity upon entering college. The influence on their future-engineer identities has mainly beenfamily members and not formal engineering educational experiences
(education; engineering; public affairs; arts andsciences; food, agriculture, and environmental sciences; business; law). The OhioState EmPOWERment Program in convergent graduate training for a sustainableenergy future enrolls Ph.D. students studying any aspect of energy from degreeprograms any college in Ohio State and engages them in several curricular andco-curricular elements that are designed to dovetail with their Ph.D. degreeprogram requirements in ways that do not extend their time to graduate. TheOhio State EmPOWERment Program established at Ohio State an energy StudentCommunity of Practice and Engagement (SCOPE), a Graduate InterdisciplinarySpecialization (GIS), and an undergraduate Research in Sustainable Energy(RISE) summer research
improvement. The paperwill include details on the experiment and the guided peer review process, as well as logisticalsolutions to achieve the blind peer review.IntroductionThe ability to write effectively is a critical professional skill for the practicing engineer, and thus avital outcome for engineering programs.1 Though many programs require specific writing intensivecourses to build these skills, it is also important that students practice writing as an integral part ofthe broader work of engineering in design and laboratory courses.2 In particular, laboratory reportsare a logical vehicle to synthesize the work of experiment design, analysis, and technical writing.However, simply requiring students produce written reports is of marginal value if
Page 23.1251.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 To Be Green Or Not To Be Green? Ethical Tools for Sustainability EngineeringAbstractEngineers are increasingly being asked to design products and process that reduce the overallimpact society has on the environment as more people realize the rising need to developsustainable resources and to be responsible when using existing resources. In order to adequatelyprepare students to enter this ever increasing demand for sustainable engineering, students needto have an understanding of the technical needs of society as well as the human component indesign, be it the use of local resources, the lack of surplus
less opportunity at WVU for the Aerospace Engineering (AE) majors togain experience working on an open-ended design project in a team environment. Forapproximately the past ten years, AE students have been able to elect to participate in theAIAA “Design, Build, Fly” RC controlled airplane competition and receive credit for one oftheir three required senior technical electives in the AE curriculum. Additionally, for the pastsix years, students can also now elect to participate in the WVU “Balloon Satellites” projectcourse, and can chose to count their course credit for this project as a senior technicalelective. Neither of these open-ended, hands on design projects can be used to fulfill thecapstone design course requirement at WVU; this course
and B. K. Hofer, McKeachie's Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers. (12th ed.) Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.[3] Worldwide CDIO Initiative. www.cdio.org[4] P. Lynch, C. de Vries and D. Lewis, “Integrating an effective first year seminar into a freshman engineering design course.” First Year Engineering Experience Conference. Daytona Beach, FL 2017.[5] G. Lemons et al, "The benefits of model building in teaching engineering design," Design Studies, vol. 31, (3), pp. 288-309, 2010.[6] C. Dym et al, "Engineering design thinking, teaching, and learning," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 94, (1), pp. 103-120, 2005.[7] R. M. Abdulaal, A. M. Al-Bahi, A. Y. Soliman & F. I
lecture notes, tutorials, coding project documentation, and many more.Finally, cloud-based code sharing and versioning systems such as git [10], the fundamentalsystem used by web platform, github [11], have become standard operating procedure forsoftware engineers, so that git and related technologies are creeping into workflows ofengineers that are not software developers.MatlabAll students in the five engineering programs at UCO that take an introduction to engineeringcomputing course are exposed to Matlab [4]. Matlab training is an important skill for manyengineering students especially in signals and control systems. Our curriculum does use Matlabfor courses focused in these areas. The fact that some of our students need to know C, Matlab,and
experimentation, to decide what components to use and purchase, and how to integrate and develop software required. They may use examples that other have uploaded to websites, vendor tutorials, data sheets, etc. Faculty aid is mostly limited to providing high-level guidance or help in specific topics such as Wi-Fi protocols, wireless signal modulation schemes, etc.(B)- Program Specific: An ability to apply project management techniques in appropriateengineering projects: • (Assessment i) This assessment tracks the progress of project tasks scheduled using a Gantt chart, which each group presents to faculty advisor in the weekly memos. The memo is graded using a rubric, and the Gantt chart is one rubric item
requirements and launched with only oneinternational destination – China. The choice of this destination was a strategic decision on thepart of program administrators and reflected recognition of the impact that China is having onthe careers of many engineering graduates of today. The GEARE Junior Year program was alsodesigned to seamlessly integrate with the mechanical engineering curriculum at PurdueUniversity. The Spring semester of 2009 was the first semester that the GEARE Junior Yearprogram was offered. Participants in the GEARE Junior Year program study abroad at Shanghai Jiao TongUniversity along with participants in the GEARE program. The focus of the study presented inthis paper was on the first cohort of participants in the program
Paper ID #11218PROGRAMMING A SIX AXIS MOTOMAN HP3C ROBOT FOR INDUS-TRIAL SORTING APPLICATIONMr. Hamza Kadir, Purdue University Calumet (College of Technology) Alumni Hamza Kadir, M.Sc., currently works as a Controls Engineer in the Packaging Machinery OEM indus- try. He completed his Masters from Purdue University Calumet, majoring in Mechatronics Engineering Technology. He conducted his M.Sc. Directed Project at the Nick and Nancy Wilson Mechatronics En- gineering Technology Laboratory. This project involves integration of modern automation tools for an intelligent part sorting system. He has previously worked with use of
Communications Experiments Using an Integrated Design Laboratory,” Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Portland, Oregon.3. H. Keene and M. Parten, “Advanced Communication Test System,” Proceedings of the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Albuquerque, New Mexico.4. J. Frolik, “A Comprehensive, Laboratory-Enhanced Communications Curriculum,” Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah. Page 11.497.105. J. Frolik, “Laboratory Enhancement of Digital and Wireless Communications Courses,” Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition
used for visual aids in the oral communication portionof the project.Another important aspect of a student’s life is the scheduling of classes. As has been mentioned,the first year in the general engineering program includes a common curriculum for allengineering majors. These students are therefore advised by one of two (sometimes three)assigned advisors.Professional DevelopmentStudents beginning their education in an engineering field often are unaware of an engineer’sduties and responsibilities. In order to help them clarify their perception of the field, twoseminar series are organized and attendance is required. The West Virginia University Collegeof Engineering and Mineral Resources consists of nine engineering degree-granting programs
Paper ID #25288Experimental Evidence Regarding Gendered Task Allocation on TeamsMs. Elizabeth Ann Strehl, University of Michigan Elizabeth is an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan studying Biomedical Engineering and Applied Mathematics. She has worked as a research assistant for Dr. Robin Fowler in the Technical Communication Department of the College of Engineering for several years focusing on team dynamics for first-year students and also works as a research assistant in the Daly Design and Engineering Education Research Group working on design science based research in senior-level engineering design
improvements that instructors can use to give their students morefailure opportunities during PBL.1 IntroductionABET’s Criterion 5 requires engineering programs to provide all undergraduate students a majordesign experience that entails technical knowledge and skills acquired through the curriculum andincorporates realistic standards and constraints. The major design experience mentioned in thecriterion is an example of project-based learning (PBL): the theory and practice of using real-worldprojects that have time restrictions to achieve specific objectives and to facilitate individual andcollective learning [1]. PBL is a learner-centered approach that allows students to engage with anill-defined project to promote research, teamwork, critical
engineering and an inability of teachers to identify their learningoutcomes 6, 7. One of the most alarming aspects of this void was the teachers’ inability to reflecton what they were learning related to engineering, apart from a vague understanding of theengineering design process. Without a clear understanding of core engineering concepts, theconnection to student learning is tenuous at best. This void also poses serious problems for highquality curriculum and assessment. As the NAE Committee on K-12 Engineering Educationobserved, a “critical factor is whether teachers—from elementary generalists to middle schooland high school specialists—understand basic engineering concepts and are comfortableengaging in, and teaching, engineering design”.8This
Engineering Investments at theNational Science Foundation Thomas W. Peterson Assistant Director Directorate for Engineering ASEE – ERC Meeting, 6 March 2012US Trade Balance in AdvancedTechnology Includes • Advanced materials • Aerospace • Biotechnology and life sciences • Electronics, optoelectonics • Flexible manufacturing • IT and Communications • Nuclear • Weapons NSF Science and Engineering Indicators, 20104Charting the course in challenging times Vision/Strategy grounded in core principles Human capital development (GRF
Paper ID #32222Staying Connected – Interactive Student Learning during the COVIDTransition to Remote LearningDr. Jeffrey A. Starke P.E., Marquette University Jeffrey Starke is a retired United States Army Colonel who served as an Associate Professor at the United States Military Academy. He currently serves as a Professor of Practice and is the Executive Director for the Masters’ Across Boundaries Graduate Engineering Program at Marquette University. COL(R) Starke specializes in environmental engineering with interests in drinking water, public health, and microbial- mediated processes to include renewable energy
Director of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grand Challenges Scholars Program (GCSP) at ASU. Through the GCSP, Amy aims to prepare students to become globally and socially aware engineers who will lead future efforts to solve the world’s biggest challenges. Amy also helps new schools to develop GCSPs as part of the GCSP Network New Programs committee. She is also actively involved in the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN), focused on students’ development of entrepreneurial mindset through GCSP and curriculum. Amy received the 2019 KEEN Rising Star award for her efforts in encouraging students to develop an entrepreneurial mindset. Amy has contributed to the development of a new hands-on
Paper ID #32203What’s Next? From Analysis to ActionDr. Agnieszka Miguel, Seattle University Agnieszka Miguel received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2001 from the University of Washing- ton, and MSEE and BSEE from Florida Atlantic University in 1996 and 1994. Dr. Miguel’s professional interests involve image processing, machine learning, and engineering education especially active learn- ing, diversity, equity, and inclusion, retention, and recruitment. Her teaching interests include MATLAB, circuits, linear systems, and digital image processing. She is an ASEE Fellow and a member of the IEEE, SWE, and Tau