disciplines. Reform details will be disseminated via the Web and CDROM, and through traditional outlets such as conferences, journal articles, and local and national media.Sooner City has been recognized as educational reform worthy of widespread adoption. NSF hasshowcased the project in the NSF Project Showcase at the ASEE national conference.Invitations have also been received to present Sooner City at the ASCE national conference(1998) and an NSF CAREER Workshop (1998). The project has been described in ASEE Prismand Engineering Times.2,3 Page 9.632.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual
reportsand also directly through interviews. Similarly, another interest would be to track alumniof the course through the remainder of their undergraduate careers and see if exposure tothese readings encourages them to take more classes in humanities and social sciences.What this paper demonstrates is that creating a course where student engineersunderstand the relevance and importance of research in other disciplines to theirengineering problem makes them more receptive to interdisciplinary readings. Thearticulation of care allows them to create their own meaning and narrative, which in turnenables them to better understand and appreciate interdisciplinary content and providesthe necessary impetus to actively engage with interdisciplinary research
substantial leadership roles so that they canhelp drive initiatives for developing technological solutions to—and policy decisions for—globalproblems in our increasingly technology pervasive society. Emphasized by ABET 6, engineersare charged with understanding the global, economic, ethical, and societal impacts of theirtechnical decisions. Policy decisions in our dynamic, technical society require this firmunderstanding of the limits and effects of science and technology 3. To accomplish this goal, theNAE cites the need for engineers to understand the principles of leadership and apply themthroughout their careers. 3As the world’s technical expertise continues to globalize, leadership is also important for anindividual’s professional success in
Engineering Education. Andrew has taught university courses in circuits, electronics, and engineering design for more than a decade. Prior to his academic career, Andrew spent 12 years as an engineer in the broadcast and telecommunications fields. Andrew holds a BA from St. Olaf College and a MS in Electrical Engineering from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Page 24.416.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Development of Fundamentals of Electrical and Computing Systems course for in-service K-12 Teachers.AbstractThe Science
. Page 24.501.6 5. Mindset, work and life. The importance of mindset on a variety of learning, professional, and personal outcomes has been recently established23. Several on-line survey items were included to evaluate whether participants have a fixed- or growth-oriented mindset. In addition, questions were added that probed participants’ attitudes toward career, employers, personal life, and work-life balance55. 6. Engineer identity. Engineer identity has been an under-studied research topic 36, 52. Recent advances in identity theory have come to recognize that people have multiple identities. Therefore, it is important to investigate if an engineer identity is triggered during CE efforts and if that
Paper ID #8395Engineering Students’ Perception of Project Based Learning Activities at theSchool of Engineering, UBC Okanagan CampusDr. Claire Yu Yan P.Eng., University of British Columbia Dr. Claire Y. Yan is a senior instructor in the School of Engineering, UBC Okanagan campus. She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China and Ph.D. degree from the University of Strathclyde in the UK. Prior to joining UBC in 2008, she worked as a research scientist at Ryerson University in Toronto. Along her career, she has been involved in various research projects in the area of CFD, heat and mass
post- surveys illustrate a significant percentage increase in gains ofstudents in terms of understanding ICME paradigm and their ability to conduct multiscalesimulations using various computational tools. Furthermore, results also indicate that student’sintention to use this course in their graduate studies or in their future career increased by apercentage of more than 50%. To conclude, the combined results of all three surveys established Page 24.521.13the fact that students were strongly satisfied that this class proved to be an enriching experiencefor them.ConclusionICME entails cradle-to-grave history modeling and multiscale
- Milwaukee.10 Galloway, P. D. (2008). The 21st Century Engineer: A Proposal for Engineering Education Reform. Reston VA: American Society of Civil Engineers Press.11 Halada, G., (2008) "A New Tool to Assess the Value of Active and Problem-based Learning in Enhancing Engineering Student Self-Efficacy," Proc. 2008 Annual Conference of the ASEE, paper 1884.12 Marra, R.M., Rodgers, K.A., Shen, D. and B. Bogue (2009) Women Engineering Students and Self-Efficacy: A Multi-Year, Multi-Institution Study of Women Engineering Student Self-Efficacy, J. Eng. Educ., 98(1): 27-38.13 Matusovich, H., Brunhaver, S., Kilgore, D., & Babcock, A. (2011). Engineering Pathways Study: How qualitative findings illuminate understanding of the college-career
Paper ID #8598Expanding the Presence of Stormwater Management in Undergraduate CivilEngineeringMs. Aimee S Navickis-Brasch P.E., Gonzaga University Aimee Navickis-Brasch is a registered professional engineer with over twenty years of practitioner experi- ence in Hydraulic and Stormwater Engineering. The majority of her career was spent working for WSDOT Headquarters Hydraulics and Stormwater Office where she was responsible for providing statewide sup- port including; design, research, training,and policy development. Aimee is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at the University of Idaho with an emphasis in
program graduates student; at least 50 percent of the as a future professional goal through their early professional program graduates will apply for careers graduate school Survey the participants All program participants will complete before/after the program on (4) Provide instructive and their research appointments; all learning outcomes; assess appealing learning participants will show improvement in
biopsychosocial values by medical students: A test of self- determination theory,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 767-779, 1996.34. G. C. Williams, R. Saizow, L. Ross, and E. L. Deci, “Motivation underlying career choice for internal medicine and surgery,” Social Science and Medicine, 45, 1705-1713, 1997.35. G. C. Williams, M. W. Wiener, K. M. Markakis, J. Reeve, and E. L. Deci, “Medical student motivation for internal medicine,” Journal of General Internal Medicine, 9, 327-333, 1994.36. S. A. Wagerman, and D. C. Funder, “Situations. In P. J. Corr & G. Mathews (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Personality, (pp. 27-42), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.37. E. L. Deci, and R. M. Ryan, “The “what” and “why” of goal
quality. The efforts to increase instructionalquality depend on faculty development (focus on faculty), instructional development(focus on student, course and curriculum), and organizational development (focus onstructure and process).5Faculty in purely teaching institutions (non-research environments), especially thoseteaching in technology-based and career-oriented programs, generally lag behind the paceof technological change in terms of their professional development activities due to theirnon-association with research activities. They face two major challenges: how toincorporate and teach new applications of new technologies in the curriculums they teachand how to maintain their professional currency.1Therefore, in summary, the rapid pace of
Engineering with a research focus on engineering education. She works to improve the undergraduate engineering experience through evaluating prepara- tion in mathematics and physics, incorporating experiential activities in the classroom, and introducing multidisciplinary design.Prof. John D. Whitcomb, Texas A&M University John began his career at NASA Langley Research Center in 1974, where he stayed until moving to Texas A&M University in 1989. While employed at NASA, he completed his Masters and PhD degrees at Stanford University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, respectively. His research has primarily focused on predicting the performance of composite materials subjected to static and
environmental literacy),Learning and Innovation Skills (such as creativity and innovation, critical thinking and problemsolving, and communication and collaboration), Information, Media and Technology Skills (suchas information literacy, media literacy, and information, communications and technologyliteracy), and Life and Career Skills (such as flexibility and adaptability, initiative and self-direction, social and cross-cultural skills, productivity and accountability, leadership and Page 24.625.3responsibility) as proposed by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills12-14.Critical thinkingEveryone thinks; it is our nature to do so. But much of our
Paper ID #9767Aerospace Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative EngineeringDr. Steve Gorrell, Brigham Young University Dr. Steve Gorrell joined the BYU Mechanical Engineering Department in 2007 following an eighteen year career as an Aerospace Engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory Propulsion Directorate. There Dr. Gorrell pioneered the use of high performance computing (HPC), hi-fidelity time-accurate CFD, and Particle Image Velocimetry to investigate and understand unsteady flow physics in high performance gas turbine engine fans and compressors. Dr. Gorrell has published 64 technical papers on unsteady
TechOffice of Career Services, who keeps a recent pool of student resumes on file for possible on-campus employment as well as local industry co-op or internship opportunities was alsocontacted for possible project employment candidates. Eventually seven undergraduate studentswere hired to support project work; three mechanical engineering students and four electricalengineering students. Page 24.154.8Administrative structure:The structure of the project was intentionally kept as simple as possible. The day-to-day activitieswere typically completed by Lawrence Technological University students working with, and underthe direction of the
technology can provide a strong basis formotivating student interest in a course. Such a course, if based on military applications oftechnology, can also impart beneficial background to graduates who pursue careers in thedefense industry. Moreover, many of the topics are generally applicable, so even students whonever enter the defense sector can profit substantially from the experience.Electronic warfare (EW) is an activity the military uses in virtually all military operations. EWis using the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum for advantage, preserving its use for friendly forces, Page 24.176.2and preventing the enemy from doing the same.1 The
For Engineering Graduate Teaching Assistants”, American Society for Engineering Education 2008 conference proceedings. 12. Crede, E., Borrego, M., McNair, L.D., (2010) Application of Community of Practice Theory to the Preparation of Engineering Graduate Students for Faculty Careers, in Advances in Engineering Education Journal, Summer 2010, http://advances.asee.org/wp-content/uploads/vol02/issue02/papers/aee-vol02- issue02-p04.pdf. 13. Nilson, L.B., (2007) The Graphic Syllabus and the Outcomes Map: Communicating Your Course, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Jossey-Bass. Page 24.189.12 14
other discipline” “Listening to each other and respecting our ideas”Preparation for the future. Students also recognized “See what we will have to know in our careers.”that the course would prepare them for future work with “Understand how to handle diverse backgrounds now toother disciplines: knowing what other disciplines do, train us for later”how they approach problems differently.Unexpected acquisition of skills in the other discipline. “ Working on Ehab’s Macbook and learning interestingThe students had a serendipitous reaction to the mechanical ideas
firmware to run on the “bare-metal” of the CubeSat processor, without anyunderlying Operating System nor RTOS. Thus, these computer science students foundthemselves without a heap for the first time in their programming careers, and had to forgo anykind of dynamic memory allocation.For the majority of the team (five out of six students), this was the first encounter with embeddedsystems programming, as there is no Embedded Systems course required in our curriculum. Thus,this project marked the students’ first practical experience with hardware timers, interrupts,programmable controllers, processor I/O, and in-circuit debuggers. Challenges posed by thisunfamiliar platform included the need for a fault-tolerant design, and the imposition of timing
Agricultural Engineering, Kansas State University Ed Brokesh is an instructor of engineering design in the Biological and Agricultural Engineering de- partment at Kansas State University with teaching, extension and advising responsibilities. His primary teaching area focuses on basic engineering design concepts related to the development of biological and agricultural systems. Ed teaches the senior engineering design course in Biological Systems Engineering and has advised a number of student design projects which have aided disabled Kansas residents. Mr. Brokesh joined the K-State BAE department in 2008 following a 24 year career as a senior design engineer working in the livestock, grain handling and ATV industries. Mr
difficult situations. Suchresources, we hope, will increase women’s self-confidence in their abilities to persist in anengineering career, which is a common and troubling reason women cite for leaving the field[14, 15].2. Methods2. 1 Overview:This study uses a methodology known as discourse completion interview. In a discoursecompletion interview, participants are given a specific problem situation and asked to describeexactly how they would respond, providing specific wording when possible. We also promptedparticipants with potential responses to the problem and asked them to comment on the meritsand drawbacks of these responses. The goal was to find out as much detail as possible aboutspecific word choices, interactional strategies, and variables
years in industry and her career parallels the progression of CAD/CAM to PDM to PLM. She has held industry positions with Owens-Illinois, Parametric Technology, Cummins, Faurecia and Toyota Industrial Equipment as well as a VAR and a consulting firm. She has held previous adjunct teaching positions with the University of Toledo and Ivy Tech Community College. Ms. Mueller also worked as the Director of Minds on Math for the Bartholomew County School Corporation which is an after school math enrichment program for fourth graders. She is a member of ASEE, ACM and SWE.Dr. Patrick E. Connolly, Purdue University, West Lafayette Patrick Connolly is a Professor and Interim Head of the Department of Computer Graphics Technology
difficulty DHH students experience in developingthe critical skill of problem solving, which requires the integration of information to iterativelygenerate hypotheses and solutions around the traditional scientific method. The struggles thatmany DHH students face in mathematics as well as general problem-solving skills are well-documented and limit the potential for DHH students to be successful while pursuing careers inSTEM. 1-3Several important findings in DHH research have provided some insight as to why DHH studentslag behind their hearing peers in the development of problem-solving skills. First, DHHstudents, on average, do not possess the same level of conceptual knowledge as their hearingpeers.4-6 As a result, when faced with a problem
spectra3 Survey question: % Not aware of use of Fourier Transform methods 66% other than time domain related ( prior to exposure included here)4 Survey question (1-2) rating on difficulty concept ( 2 most difficult) 1.65 Survey question (1-2) rating on operational mechanics difficulty 1.46 Survey question (1-2) rating potential interest in career in optical 0.6 engineering7 Survey question (1-10) rating on benefit of exposure of concepts , (10 6.0 is maximum benefit) Table 7 Introduction to Communication Theory, 2008 Lecture SequenceWeek Lecture Sequence DescriptionNumber1-2 Introduction of Fourier Application to Acoustic, optics, and
necessary to complete this task so wesurmise that there was another issue present than lack of knowledge. Perhaps the success of thechemical engineers might be simply explained by their previous course dealing with part of thecontent (state functions and energy balances) if it were not for the fact that the physics students dojust as well without having any prior course focused on thermodynamics. Prior exposure differ-ences do not appear to explain the differences in performance of chemical engineering and physicsstudents compared to mechanical engineering students. Another significant feature was that themechanical engineers take the thermodynamics course earlier in their college careers than chem-ical engineers and physics students. Since there
University. Editor of three books and author of over 140 articles and chapters, her research centers on the intersections of career, gender, and communication, particularly in STEM. Her research has appeared in such journals as Human Relations, Communication Monographs, Management Communication Quarterly, Communication Theory, Human Communication Research, and Journal of Applied Communication Research, as well as proceedings for ASEE and FIE. A fellow and past president of the International Communication Association, she has received numerous awards for her research, teaching/mentoring, and engagement. She is working on Purdue-ADVANCE initiatives for institutional change, the Transforming Lives Building Global Communities
/facilitated by the College of Engineering would make Ohio State grads markedly more attractive to employers.Increase Language Course Enrollment I wanted to take a foreign language, but it would not have counted toward graduation. Introduce a language/culture course pertaining to the topics listed above (not so much an actual course to learn a language but rather how to diminish borders, per say.) We are in a career where it can be very important to come across well to other nations. I always thought it was strange that this requirement was waived for engineers I feel as though most engineering jobs now do not require much knowledge of a foreign
: Role of AE3xxx in the curriculum aerodynamics, structures, vehicle Page 23.25.2 dynamics and control, propulsion, andinterdisciplinary design to be well prepared for careers in aerospace and related engineeringfields. They will be well-trained to function as professionals who can formulate, analyze andsolve problems that may include economic, social and environmental constraints. And finally,they will be prepared to communicate well, function well in the global environment