responsibility is identifying Health Science, non-profit and industrially sponsored projects for engineering student teams to work on. Dr Ward is also Principal Investigator for the Engineering Critical Patient Care VIP team, which develops medical devices for various constituencies in the VCU Health System. One of the developed devices has been taken private by a company founded by former students. Prior to joining Virginia Commonwealth University, Ben had an industrial R&D, Engineering and Product Development career spanning 33 years. This includes Hoechst Celanese from 1981 to 2000, and Filtrona (Essentra) Porous Technologies as VP of R&D from 2001 to 2013. He led successful product development activities in
whatmatters can be exacerbated if students’ first career position involves working for atechnology-based industry, where compliance with corporate authority and the single bottomline is what ensures job security. Generally, nowhere in this process are students challengedor invited to consider the social-justice dimensions inherent in their design work, such as howdesigning a children’s clinic can benefit from identifying the root causes of why such a clinicneeds to exist; how designing an aesthetically appealing, highly functional website canaccount for users who may have inconsistent and/or slow download capacities; or howdesigning a prosthetic device for wealthy clients might leave poor veterans priced out of themarket. If the focus remains
characteristics, self-assessments of selected learning outcomes,and future career plans. The survey also queried students‟ perceptions of classroom practices,out-of-class interactions with faculty, and extracurricular experiences. Chairs were askedquestions about their curriculum, educational support programs, and promotion and tenurepractices. Faculty members responded to questions (similar to those posed to chairs) about theirprograms. Faculty members also reported on the emphasis they give to the attributes specified inthe National Academy‟s “E2020” report, the teaching practices they employ in a course theyteach regularly, and on their level of agreement with the goals of the NAE report. Associatedeans of undergraduate engineering responded to
9 10If for instance you were pursuing a mechanical engineering (ME) degree and through the courseof the Perseus II project you gained significant new ME relative knowledge and reinforcedinformation from classes throughout your UG career relative to ME that enhanced your abilityto apply ME knowledge you would select something on the higher end of the spectrum torepresent what you feel is a significant educational impact. ii. In a discipline/s of your Perseus II teammates : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10If for instance you were pursuing a mechanical engineering (ME) degree and through the courseof the Perseus II project you gained significant new naval engineering relative knowledge, forexample the knowledge and ability to assess and design
prepare graduates well. Traditional“small stepping” lab and project classes serve a real purpose but can be limited and geared morefor workforce literacy (“Cubicle” engineers). Challenging projects give students freedom andownership while driving and amplifying their problem solving skills with some failure andcreative feedback solutions. Appropriate and inspiring big projects better prepare students foradvanced leadership by doing advanced engineering and “swimming with the Big Boys” innational competitions, peer reviewed publications, and selective job interviews.AdvantagesReal world and challenging experiences for students have many advantages: • improved student resume and career opportunities • are significant for attracting top students
imperative that we recognize the internalization ofthe principles of engineering design as a career sustaining competency.Accordingly, we have piloted a pre-capstone course called Principles ofEngineering Design. In this course we aim to empower the students to internalizethe principles of engineering design, learn through doing (reading, designing,building, testing, and post-project analysis), learn to frame, postulate, andimplement a plan of action for their Spring 2016 Capstone projects, and transitionfrom being a student to a junior engineer in a company. In this course through ascaffolded set of assignments and activities, we provide an opportunity forstudents to internalize the principles of engineering design. In Fall 2015 we
biological sensing, electromechanical signal processing, and computing; the dynamics of parametrically-excited systems and coupled oscillators; the behavior of electromechanical and thermomechanical systems, including energetic materials, operating in rich, multi- physics environments; and mechanics education. Dr. Rhoads is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), where he serves on the Design, Materials and Manufacturing Segment Leadership Team and the Design Engineer- ing Division’s Technical Committees on Micro/Nanosystems and Vibration and Sound. Dr. Rhoads is a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career
, and socially just. She runs the Feminist Research in Engineering Education (FREE, formerly RIFE, group), whose diverse projects and alumni are described at feministengineering.org. She received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women. She has received ASEE-ERM’s best paper award for her CAREER research, and the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute, both in 2013. She was co-PI of Purdue’s ADVANCE program from 2008-2014, focusing on the underrepresentation of women in STEM faculty positions. She helped found, fund, and grow the PEER Collaborative, a peer mentoring group of
we are in for a career of stressful project rewrites, but it does mean if we want to keep thecourse current, we will have to find a pace of making changes that we can maintain indefinitely,reminiscent of one the principles of agile development: Agile processes promote sustainabledevelopment. [Everyone] should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely. [4].Related WorkWeb-development projects – especially those involving the development of small e-commerceweb sites – are popular in software engineering education. They work well with project-basedlearning [5] and agile methods [6]. They are well-suited for courses where industry collaborationor a real-world feel is desired [7][8], especially in capstone projects [9]. We found that
failure is high and theprobability of a failure is unacceptable. For example, a spare pump requires the extra pump, allpiping and valves, and control equipment to provide for immediate startup of the spare shouldthe primary fail. Even this total cost of spare pumps is usually found to be a good investment,while the much higher capital cost of compressors prevents a spare being provided in mostplants. This coverage of reliability will likely be limited in a design course; however, it isessential to perform proper equipment design and cost estimation. Even a brief introduction willprovide basic concepts used by students throughout their careers. Importantly, we hope that itwill pique their interest and serve as a basis for later study during
Paper ID #9857A Philosophy of Learning Engineering and a Native American Philosophy ofLearning; An Analysis for CongruencyMs. Christina Hobson Foster, Arizona State UniversityDr. Shawn S Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Shawn Jordan, Ph.D.is an Assistant Professor in theDepartment of Engineering atArizona State Univer- sity. He is the PI on three NSF-funded projects: CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society (EEC 1351728), Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?(EEC 1329321), and Broadening the Reach of Engineering through Community Engagement (BRECE)(DUE 1259356
” come first, and to the extent that the nearly 200 firms who recruit our students at the twiceyearly career fairs have expectations that NC State students will have a particular suite of civil engineering skills, and the department aims to provide those skills. It also does assert that ABET requirements are viewed as minimum requirements that must be met, not an optimal target. Expanding the scope of those expectations (read as being constraints), unnecessarily, as might easily occur with an explicit conformance to either BOK1 or BOK2, is not advantageous nor is it necessarily important in meeting the needs of our customers. This having been said, the department’s “customers” are true civil engineering firms, both local and
listening – but this was implicitly aimedat grooming us to stand out in interviews and boardrooms from the herd ofcolleagues who lacked communication skills. Listening was an asset that we weretaught to view as a “booster” to our career prospects.This career orientation model was built around the goal of creating engineers whofulfill what industry demands. Academia itself was seen as an engineer “churningfactory.” Don’t get me wrong. The curricula and our initiation into the industrialsector were top notch. The message we got about our role in society, however, wasa blur. Although we had courses with case studies depicting huge engineeringfailures and their catastrophic consequences (e.g., the Union Carbide Bhopaltragedy), the public side of these
learning; results of integrated curricula experiences; nationally-normed subject content examinations; recent graduate surveys that demonstrate graduate satisfaction with employment including career development activities, mobility opportunities, and appropriate job title; and employer surveys that demonstrate satisfaction with recent graduates. Programs also must demonstrate that their graduates are readily accepted into the workforce and are prepared for continuing education.ii Page 6.125.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition
general engineering major. At HMC and MIT, the required general educationcurricula also stressed disciplinary connections and thus interdisciplinarity. Institutions –particularly ASU, Howard, and the University of Michigan (UM) – incorporatedinterdisciplinarity into courses and programs: ASU’s Innovation Space course brings togetherstudents from business and engineering; at Howard, senior design courses are interdisciplinary,involving students within engineering and from other fields as well; the focus at UM was on thedevelopment of three interdisciplinary minor programs that would allow students to combinestudies across engineering majors to meet their career goals. At Virginia Tech (VT) and UM,curricular efforts were greatly supplemented by co
engineering disciplines (biomedical/bioengineering, chemical, civil, electrical, industrial, and mechanical). All faculty members,program chairs, and sophomore, junior and senior students at participating institutions were Page 22.430.3invited to participate in web-based surveys. The student surveys solicited respondents‟background and demographic characteristics, self-assessments of selected learning outcomes,and future career plans. The survey also queried students‟ perceptions of classroom practices,out-of-class interactions with faculty, and extracurricular experiences. Chairs were askedquestions about their curriculum, educational support
, but the primary concern would be in setting up false expectations in newly hired faculty who do not understand the final objectives and outcomes of the P&T process. By providing new faculty members with OES-l opportunities that are "outside of the academic mainstream" compared to the traditional P&T process—without ALSO mentoring them so they know about and understand the need to address the core function of the P&T process (Teaching, Creative Activities, & Service) —then they may be moving along an inappropriate career trajectory, leading to disappointment, failure, and possible law suits as a result. ≠ Retention is much influenced by the OES-l as a part of P&T process
culturethat fosters interdependence, women should prefer classes that emphasize cooperative learning.In fact, both studies suggest that active participation in class, class discussion, small group work,and cooperation will improve the learning environment for women.Industry involvementVery few students choose a major with a thorough understanding of the implications for theimpact of their choice of major on what they will do after graduation. Student knowledge of thepractice of engineering and possible careers paths for engineering graduates early in theircollegiate careers is minimal at best. Without an accurate picture of the value of their major forlife after graduation, students may find it difficult to justify to themselves the hours of
was never, like, her asking if I could not do well. It was like you can do this, you can make your way through it. My little brothers, like, wanting to set an example for them and wanting to, you know, show them that, like, no matter our background we could do it. We can make it through college and graduate. And, you know, being in a position, like, with engineering, it puts you in a better financial position than a lot of other career paths, so being able to support, you know, my family and not letting, I guess past circumstances determine, like, the future. I think that, like, there's a lot of friends, being close with other people and The ACCESS Program like Obi and Greg. You know
Paper ID #9195Management and Assessment of a Successful Peer Mentor Program for In-creasing Freshmen RetentionMr. Jeff Johnson, LeTourneau University Jeff Johnson is an Instructor at LeTourneau University. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering Technology from LeTourneau in 1994 then proceeded to spend 16 years in industry focusing on machine and civil design as well as project management. In 2010 he began his teaching career at his alma mater to share his experiences with engineering and technology students. He is currently a co-PI on the schools NSF-STEP retention grant.Prof. Alan D. Niemi, LeTourneau University
Support for Blind or Low-Vision (BLV) Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) LearnersAbstractThere is a growing, yet relatively limited body of research exploring the experiences of learnerswith disabilities in introductory electrical and computer engineering (ECE) education. With theproven importance of introductory ECE education in influencing students’ undergraduateinterests and future career prospects in technology, the inaccessibility of the field to learners withdisabilities poses an inequitable access barrier that further marginalizes these learners, oftenpreventing them from exploring the field in the first place. In particular, as ECE largely relies onvisual cues for designing, building, testing, and debugging
aprofessional engineer. It’s first fundamental canon to “Hold paramount the safety, health, andwelfare of the public” (NSPE, n. d.) informed their decision making when navigating anunethical directive or request. Rather than serving merely as a symbol of good engineering practice, the NSPE Code ofEthics and other written standards provide the raw material necessary for professional engineersto form an identity, often coming to life through application to case studies. Participants sharedmemories of case studies they had learned about early in their career that helped them determinehow they wanted to be perceived as a professional engineer. In reference to the ChallengerDisaster, which was among a few frequently-cited case studies, Zac shared
VicePresident of Product Management & Engineering for the wireless terminals division of SamsungTelecommunications America. He began his career as an associate professor of electricalengineering at Lakehead University, Canada. He has authored more than 30 technicalpublications and received five patents with several patents pending.Dr. Justin P. OpatkiewiczB.S. U.C. BerkeleyPh.D. Stanford UniversityDr. Opatkiewicz joined the NanoEngineering Department at UC San Diego in 2012 to lecture in avariety of core courses in the Chemical Engineering curriculum. He has won the Teacher of theYear Award for both the NanoEngineering department and the Jacobs School of Engineering in2014. While at Berkeley, Dr. Opatkiewicz created and taught the course
executive in the medical device industry and in academic instruction as a professor in biomedical engineering. His industry experience includes medical product development, marketing and sales, international business development, strategic and business planning, and senior man- agement with P&L responsibility. Currently, Bost is the Executive Associate Dean in the School of Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University. He oversees development of innovation and outreach programs along with the School’s mar- keting and communications, human resources, information technology, and student career service activ- ities. Bost is also Director of the VCU Institute of Engineering and Medicine located in the Virginia
Teaching Fellow in the School of Engineering at Sheffield Hallam University. Afteruniversity and industrial experience as initially a computer systems design engineer at Plessey and latterly as anintegrated circuit applications engineer at Marconi he joined the university as a lecturer in electronics. Johncurrently is responsible for the coordination of learning, teaching and assessment strategy in the School ofEngineering.Tim Mulroy is a Lecturer in the School of Engineering at Sheffield Hallam University and provides academicoversight of the engineering industrial placement program for undergraduates. He is also academic coordinator forjoint programs between the university and its partner college in Malaysia. Tim started his career
12achieving the Letter A, and why only two students in the control group achieved Letter B, and howpeer to peer interaction can impact results. These conclusions drawn and strategies presented allowstudents to develop fundamental engineering skills early on in their education with the intent ofcarrying them throughout their studies. Furthermore, if students can experience a more rewarding andsuccessful time in Engineering Design I and II courses while gaining valuable experience, they willbe more confident in their abilities and choices not only in the classroom but in their careers as well. References1. Richards, S., Retzlaff, L., Donndelinger, J., 2022, “Developing and Manufacturing Process
implement it in their design process. Overall, ifstudents can better understand the cost and time trade-offs of manufacturing processes, they arebetter equipped for their engineering careers in an industry setting since this understanding is a keyfactor in ensuring efficient design development.7 AcknowledgmentsThe authors would like to thank Mr. Thomas Gilman for his contributions in defining this work.References[1] Daly, S. R., Yilmaz, S., Christian, J. L., Seifert, C. M., and Gonzalez, R., 2012, “Design Heuristics in Engineering Concept Generation,” J. Eng. Educ., 101(4), pp. 601–629.[2] Viswanathan, Vimal K. and Linsey, Julie S., ”Design Fixation and Its Mitiga- tion: A Study on the Role of Expertise,” ASME