technological solutions that address pressing societal needs at the intersection of health care and engineering. Dr. Sienko is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award and several teaching awards including the ASME Engineering Education Donald N. Zwiep Innova- tion in Education Award, UM Teaching Innovation Prize, UM Undergraduate Teaching Award, and UM Distinguished Professor Award.Mrs. Amy Hortop, University of MichiganMs. 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
would be unbeneficial to compare the scoreswithout having a record of teaching methods and styles.The flipped course presented in this paper indicates that students’ interests can be retained withmore hands-on activities. This came into agreement with other studies such as [11], [12] and [13].Compared to conventional, instructor-centered based courses, PBL learning techniques offer abetter vehicle to retain concept, providing richer context in which a topic can be learned andpracticed at the same time. This not only retains students’ interests and helps them understand theconcept, but also helps prepare them succeed rapidly in their future careers as most companies relyon team work, critical-logical thinking, complex problem solving in their
Paper ID #25692The CEBOK3 and ABET Accreditation Criteria: A Gap AnalysisDr. Kenneth J. Fridley, University of Alabama Kenneth J. Fridley is the Senior Associate Dean for the College of Engineering at The University of Alabama. Prior to his current appointment, Fridley served as Professor and Head of the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alabama. Dr. Fridley has been recognized as a dedicated educator throughout his career and has received several awards for his teaching efforts, including the ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education) Leadership Award in 2010
still do, that engineeringgraduates will have better career and advancement opportunities, but it is too early to confirmwhether that is indeed true or not. For the employers of our graduates, we believed that withengineering programs we would be able to provide them with better prepared graduates than wecould with the engineering technology programs. Part of this was due to aforementioned increasein foundational math and science courses, and the ability to achieve more depth in upper-divisioncourses as a result. In addition, we knew that we would be able to increase the number of creditsin the programs as we transitioned from engineering technology to engineering, so we felt that wecould add content without having to give up any content that
exclusively in those states that have adopted the Next Generation ScienceStandards, which include engineering performance expectations at all grades [1]. Aside from itsinclusion in the NGSS, there are many reasons for even the youngest K-12 students to learn toengineer. Engineering is motivating for students, engages their creativity, introduces them toengineering careers and helps to reinforce and apply scientific and mathematical knowledge [2-5]. Engineers and K-12 students alike use iterative engineering design processes to solveproblems [3, 6-8]. The designed solution to a problem is often an object (e.g., a bridge), but canalso be a system or process. In the early part of design processes, students: define the problem;consider relevant knowledge
students to learn more about STEM and possibly choose it as afuture career. While these hopes were future-oriented, they were also intentionally part of thelessons and activities. Jill explained her hope that students will take on STEM identities whileengaged in classroom work, I would love for them to start to be little engineers where they are keeping their own little engineering notebook and saying okay this is how I’m going to make a table, this is what the table is going to look like and then make the graph afterwards.By putting students in the position of STEM professionals in the classroom, Bob had similarhopes, “And so, hopefully, and maybe no one will from there, but I hope some of the kidsthere…maybe they will want to
], [6].Commercial success was based on Hyatt’s development of a technology for molding celluloid,and the use of the substance persisted until 1949, eventually replaced by newer, less flammableplastics. His machine has been hailed as a “direct forerunner” of modern injection molding [5].Hyatt’s invention foreshadowed a manufacturing revolution, starting with the successful launchof Bakelite in 1907, developed by Belgian-born scientist Leo Baekeland, who graduated from theUniversity of Ghent with a degree in chemistry and began work as an assistant professor. After ashort career of teaching pure chemistry, however, he discovered that he was more interested inapplications, and he and his new wife immigrated to the US in 1889, where he began work
the genderdemographic).Situating the researchersVanasupa: I am a white-looking female engineering professor who identifies as male. My whitetransgender state has come with unearned benefits and disadvantages during my engineeringeducation journey. While often the only female in my courses of white males, I honestly did notquestion whether I belonged since I felt like “one of the guys.” Over the course of my career, Iinternalized the cultural narrative that I was “less than” my male peers. I often encounter themasculine norms above in the culture of engineering education – in what is valued (or notvalued); in the language, habits, and ways of interacting that are accepted as “normal,” in theworkplace behaviors that are deemed “unprofessional
. Targeting these types of activities may be effective atreducing student loneliness. Diehl et al. conclude their study with the following: Universities are a perfect setting for conducting interventions to support students in attaining a healthy lifestyle (e.g., by offering sport courses) and also for giving them the opportunity to start their professional career being healthy. Giving support at this stage of life is important in preventing lonely students from “being trapped in loneliness as they age”Moving forwards, the authors are planning improvements for the 2020 fall break intervention.Speaking with students who remained on campus, there is clearly appetite to increase the numberand variety of social activities running during the week
important consideration in course structure. Although these skills are critical for a successful career in engineering, they are often not explicitly included in lecture based course outcomes. Student ability and learning in these areas is also not typically assessed, likely due to the lack of metrics available to evaluate this type of learning. We have therefore introduced a weekly reflection, including both multiple choice and free response questions, into the course structure. The importance of reflection on teaching and learning has been well documented (Boud, Keogh, & Walker; Brookfield, 1990; Dewey, 1993, King & Kitchener, 1994; Schön, 1983). Providing students with opportunities to reflect on their learning helps them
in Fig 1), ECD projectshave been motivated by faculty and students desire to help, personal and career goals, desires tostudy and work abroad, and desires to solve problems and to gain hands on experience onimpactful work [1][2]. Since then, some scholars have called our attention to how the focus ofwell-intentioned ECD projects on technological fixes and deliverables tend to leave out criticalreflections of engineers’ motivations to be in these projects, and of the processes required tobuild trust and determine communities’ priorities and desires [3][4]. Unfortunately, these calls tocritical reflection in the ECD space are often overshadowed by the continued emergence ofmilestones and challenges (e.g., UN Sustainable Development Goals, NAE
manufacturing and the supporting use of CAx technologies can be quitelimited in their degree work. Those who transfer to a MFGE career after graduation acquire theskills through appropriate supplemental training and practice. Both MEs and MFGEs getexposed to authoring content in their CAD and analysis (e.g. FEA) classes. MFGEs get exposureto authoring CAM content in courses related to CNC programming and robotics. These are oftenoptional for MEs depending on their specialization through technical electives.A manufacturing engineer needs to be able to engage at any point in a product developmentcycle. They must bring to bear a vast reservoir of knowhow about how products can be feasiblyand cost effectively manufactured with quality and how this impacts
. colleagues and clients) and their awareness of their obligations to, for example, provideassistance and be honest [6], [27], [28]. Individuals tend to orient themselves to the people in theirenvironment; that is, they tend to be able to imagine themselves in the positions of people withwhom they come into contact [6]. The alignment of engineering students is significantly associatedwith the majors and careers they choose to pursue [6]. Therefore, when facing ambiguous ethical 8dilemmas, orientation to others in their environment is likely to predict microethical understanding[6].Bairaktarova and Woodcock (2015) also found that differences in individual
Paper ID #28954Creating a Community of Practice for Operations Research by Co-creatinga High Impact Executive Education Program in IndiaDr. Venugopalan Kovaichelvan, TVS Institute for Quality and Leadership, TVS Motor Company Ltd Dr. V. KOVAICHELVAN is the Director of TVS Institute for Quality and Leadership, the Corporate University of TVS Motor Company Limited, India. The Institute focus on holistic development of talent through career lifecycle of the employees with focus on functional & professional skills, cultural capabil- ities, collective capabilities, support business strategy and Corporate Social
Company it was a significant learning opportunity to manage people related toa field in which they themselves did not have expertise in: Since I'm relatively new in my career, I've learned how to lead a group of people without necessarily knowing all the answers, if that makes sense. … So, being able to lead the students and direct them in the right way, even though I don't know where they're going to go and I don't know what the answers are going to be, that's something that's been my biggest learning.3.2 Project outcomesThe value of gaining new ideas, products, services and concepts was explicitly and frequentlymentioned in all of the five cases in the first round of interviews. As the projects developedand the later
Paper ID #31009Design Course in a Mechanical Engineering CurriculumDr. Jamie Szwalek, University of Illinois at Chicago Dr. Jamie Szwalek is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.Dr. Yeow Siow, The University of Illinois at Chicago Dr. Yeow Siow has over fifteen years of combined experience as an engineering educator and practi- tioner. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from Michigan Technological University where he began his teaching career. He then joined Navistar’s thermal-fluids system group as a senior engineer, and later brought
studentengagement and creativity. The ideas students came up with were often trivial andunimaginative; they were frequently oriented toward individual use and addressed problems ofno greater significance than that of minor inconvenience. For example, each semester wouldyield various designs for collapsible backpack umbrellas, automated erasers for dry-erase boards,and novel charging methods for personal electronic devices. Equally problematic was thatstudents struggled to see the value of the patent application assignment to engineering practice.On course evaluations they frequently voiced that it was difficult to appreciate the project’srelevance to a career in engineering especially as they were unlikely to become inventors orpatent attorneys. Further
category are alternative businessmodels, economies of disadvantaged groups or areas and providing certain services orproducts for less. For example, one of the student reports mentioned business opportunitiesand the need of international standards to pursue them: “The IoT plays a key role in sustainable cities and communities. Successful and safe IoT technology will create more career and business opportunities. Our research shows that the most effective, and maybe also only global, solution for data security issues are laws, standards and contracts.” (group E, first report)All student groups were concerned about the economy in some manner in the initial reports.Some took it from a global point of view, where the
is, paraphrasing myself from above, is to attend to the configuration of the curricula,its particular pedagogical strategies, how they cultivate students’ identity, the nature of theirprograms’ educational cultures, student-teacher relationships, deliberate recruit, career advising,etc. By attending to the entire educational system, and not focusing on discrete “creativity”knowledge chunks, engineering educators are more likely to reliably arrive at robust educationaloutcomes of enhanced student creativity, but then those changes will come at a cost toeducational outcomes currently achieved. Engineering educators may wish to assume there is nofriction between engineering and design educational logics, and hence to define their
interviewed for this analysis, with eachinterview following a semi-structured interview script and lasting approximately 90 minutes.Students volunteered to be interviewed after a brief introduction to the project by the authorsduring the participants’ engineering courses; additional students were invited to participate viasnowball sampling. The students in this analysis represent a diverse array of majors inengineering and lab-based sciences, at all levels of their respective undergraduate careers, avariety of socioeconomic and regional backgrounds, multiple political perspectives, and adistribution of genders (including trans/gender non-conforming students).The interview protocol moved from rapport-building questions, through open-ended
, tours, and social activities thatfacilitated mutual experiences, conversations, and friendships. In between scheduled class andinformal homework sessions, students went together to lunch, where the first author was alsopresent, and participated in dialogues ranging from the class work to career plans, summer travel,generic complaints, and current events. Students had the opportunity to discuss their respectivebackgrounds, interests, goals, aspirations, and challenges with the instructor during class trips,formal dinners at the beginning and end of the course, and small-group dinners. Undoubtedly,the individual student-instructor relationships developed and the learning community establishedand positively influenced learning. Within the
Boulder. He co-directs Project EPIC, an NSF-funded project since 2009 that investigates how members of the public make use of social media during times of mass emergency. Professor Anderson leads the design and implementation of a large-scale data collection and analysis system for that project. Prof. Anderson was a participant in the first cohort of the NCWIT Pacesetters program, a program de- signed to recruit more women to the field of computer science and encourage them to pursue their careers in technology. As part of his Pacesetters efforts, Prof. Anderson led the charge to create a new BA in CS degree at CU that allows students in Arts and Sciences to earn a degree in computer science. This new degree
influence, and thus theability to separate those influences from their own design processes. Here, a social scientific lenson the CAD learning activity can be productively integrated with the more technical approach ofteaching command and strategic CAD knowledge.While all students whose career paths intersect with CAD should gain practical and theoreticalexpertise with relevant CAD platforms, students whose educational experiences and potentialcareers may span different disciplinary domains would benefit by being agile in terms of howthey talk about what they know. In particular, these practitioners need to be able to translate theirpractical expertise and disciplinary understandings into other domains: moving from, say,engineering to design, or
challenges for educators [12].Engineering education scholars Juan Lucena and Jon Leydens suggest incorporating contextualdetail into more traditional technical problems that students are presented with. They proposedoing so by asking traditional technical questions in ways that require students to interrogatepotential circumstances of problems they are given in class [13]. This can be done in ways thatdo not forfeit the technical requirements demanded of an engineer, but rather complementlearning in the classroom to better mirror (and prepare students for) the socio-technical worknecessary for acting as Engineering Changemakers or, simply, for successful careers inengineering.This paper details the first iteration of a module to incorporate