& AppliedScience and the Lindner College of Business had both launched new online degree programswithin the year and both were interested in gaining experience with MOOCs. There is a historyof academic collaboration between the two colleges6 and both work with a third party, AcademicPartnerships, on instructional design, strategic planning, and enrollment management.In consultation with the Provost’s Office the colleges adopted this approach to the MOOC: The course topic would be appropriate for both the MBA degree and the Master of Engineering degree programs. The course would be collaboratively developed between the colleges and faculty from both colleges would participate. The course would be offered in a half
Paper ID #10612A Bus Tracking and Planning System for CTfastrakDr. Shuju Wu, Central Connecticut State University Dr. Shuju Wu is currently an Associate Professor at the Computer Electronics and Graphics Technol- ogy Department at Central Connecticut State University. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Wu’s teaching and research interests include computer communica- tions and networks, multimedia systems, performance modeling and evaluation, and network applications. She is a member of IEEE and ASEE.Mr. Shane Michael CarrollKeith Boyd-CarterJames Krostoski
areas of her research lie in: instructional design, online learning, measurement, professional education, higher education, the built environment, and facilities management. She is also interested in: instructional technology, learning analytics, connected learning, and project-based learning.Prof. Kenneth Timothy Sullivan, Arizona State University Page 24.93.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 A Proposed Dynamic Model for Professional Education in Construction Project Planning Kristen C. Hurtado and Kenneth T
Paper ID #10199Industry-based learning experiences in Project Planning and SchedulingDr. Marcel Maghiar, Georgia Southern University Marcel Maghiar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Georgia Southern University teaches Construction Man- agement courses at junior and senior level in the Civil Engineering and Construction Management de- partment. His research experience includes development of computer syntaxes to unequivocally describe construction activities and development of a consistent methodology to explicitly classify and quantify construction methods (emerging taxonomy of construction methods). Marcel’s main expertise
Paper ID #10107Personnel Improvement Plan: a professionalism assignment for engineeringstudentsDr. Mohammad Habibi, Minnesota State University, MankatoMr. Ronald R Ulseth, Iron Range Engineering Ron Ulseth, P.E. is Co-Director of IRE as well as an instructor of technical competencies in thermody- namics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer. Ulseth has been teaching engineering fundamentals courses since 1988. He was a lead developer in the Itasca Community College Engineering program. Ulseth led a team of ˜10 engineering educators from around the United States to develop the Iron Range Engineering program. In addition to
. Page 24.984.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Planning Grant: Developing a National Higher Education Student Unit Record Database – NSF REE Grant 1232740Project goalsRetention is the dominant metric in studying student success in engineering education and inhigher education in general, yet available national datasets do not facilitate establishing nationalbenchmarks. This project sought to build on the earlier development of a large longitudinaldataset to design a national, longitudinal, student unit-record database that would make itpossible to calculate retention and other metrics consistently. This resource would permitbenchmarking, peer comparisons, and the design of new
? Development and Testing of a Prototyping Planning ToolAbstractA new prototyping planning tool guides designers in choosing between virtual vs. physicalprototyping strategies based on answers to Likert-scale questions. We developed this tool toaugment prior work in design methods seeking to facilitate prototyping strategy development.This new tool was tested with a pilot experiment in which engineering students were taskedwith optimizing the design of a four-bar linkage to be used to draw a specific shape. Thestudents were then instructed to use the new prototyping planning tool to decide whether tocreate a virtual or physical prototype of a four-bar linkage, with the goal of maximizing theperformance metric detailed in the design problem statement
Paper ID #8669Engineering Practice in the Academic Plan: External Influences, Faculty, andtheir Teaching RolesMr. Michael Geoffrey Brown, University of Michigan Michael is a second year doctoral student at the University of Michigan in Higher Education. His research interests focus on organizational communication and curriculum planning in post-secondary education.Dr. David B Knight, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education David Knight is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education and affiliate faculty with the Higher Education Program at Virginia Tech. His research focuses on student learning
Paper ID #9215How Students’ Informal Experiences Shape their Views of Engineering andAffect their Plans for Professional PersistenceDr. Kerry Meyers, Youngstown State University Dr. Kerry Meyers is in her second year as the Director of the STEM College’s First-Year Engineering Program at Youngstown State University. Her career is focused on the development of common, project based First-Year Engineering experiences, beginning at the University of Notre Dame where she was also the Director of the First-Year Engineering Program from 2005-2012. Further, her research interests relate to Engineering Educational issues in the
to move forward. Briefly, we have streamlined the number ofrequired teamwork activities, more carefully connected them to the project work, and broughtmore of the activities “in-house,” making design faculty more responsible for the first and lastactivities. Our plan is to continue assessing these areas at the end of the 2013-2014 academicyear.IntroductionSince its inception, the development of teamwork skills has been integrated into the DesignThinking and Communication Program (previously “Engineering Design and Communication”),a two-quarter interdisciplinary course (DTC-1, DTC-2) required of all first-year engineeringstudents at Northwestern University. From the start, this took the form of supplementing theexperiential learning that
industrial and entrepreneurial sponsors. We conclude by discussing some ideas and plans for improved methods of organizationand administration of our interdepartmental Senior Design program that will hopefully help tomake it even more successful and better-integrated in the future.History of the Interdepartmental Senior Design Collaboration at Our College Prior to 2006, many failed attempts had been made in our College to adequately integratecross-disciplinary teams of engineering students in the senior capstone design projects. One ofthe main reasons for these earlier difficulties was the disparity between capstone designcurricular structures between the different departments. Until 2006, the Mechanical Engineering(ME) department was
Paper ID #8617Forming a Coalition to Decrease Freshout Rampup Time in the EngineeringWorkplace: A Business Plan for an Academic, Industry, and GovernmentPartnershipDr. Steven W Villachica, Boise State University Steve Villachica is an Associate Professor of Instructional and Performance Technology (IPT) at Boise State University. His research interests focus on leveraging expertise in the workplace in ways that meet organizational missions and business goals. He is currently working on an NSF grant to increase engineer- ing faculty adoption of evidence-based instructional practices [NSF #1037808: Engineering Education
“Ten” Ideas for a Successful College1. Reward Excellence2. Build Community3. Manage Resources4. Make Tough Decisions5. Manage Your Time6. Plan Strategically Presentation to the New Engineering Deans on 4/6/2014 by Robert H. Davis, University of Colorado Boulder 1. Reward Excellence• Merit-based salaries• Named faculty positions• Awards• Differentiated loads• Space allocations Tip: Develop a Dean’s Faculty Fellowship Program 2. Build Community• Respect • Publicize• Honest/fair achievements evaluations • Personal• Mini-retreats acknowledgement Tip
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERINGBeing a Successful Dean EDI 2014 - Scottsdale COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Areas of Discussion• Values• Planning• Budgets, Investments, and Risk Taking• Understanding you and your team• Campus CommunityTalk About College Values Everywhere Planning• Critical for community and upper administration but most faculty think it is a waste of time• Get to the “task level”• Stakeholder involvement• Budget follows plan• Measure how you are doing and share with Team Budgets, Investment, Risk Taking• You are a portfolio manager • You cannot make big wins without taking on some risk • You will be asked to make investments • You
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERINGBeing a Successful Dean EDI 2014 - Scottsdale COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Areas of Discussion• Values• Planning• Budgets, Investments, and Risk Taking• Understanding you and your team• Campus CommunityTalk About College Values Everywhere Planning• Critical for community and upper administration but most faculty think it is a waste of time• Get to the “task level”• Stakeholder involvement• Budget follows plan• Measure how you are doing and share with Team Budgets, Investment, Risk Taking• You are a portfolio manager • You cannot make big wins without taking on some risk • You will be asked to make investments • You
2015 2016Lockheed Martin Leadership Institute TRANSFORMATIONAL L E A D E R S H I P Societal Strategic Personal • Negotiation, conflict • Strategic planning• Knowledge of self resolution • Global perspective• Emotional • Listening and intelligence speaking skills • Customer focus• Teamwork and real • Giving and • The language of world
is included. The science and art of entrepreneurship continues to Index Terms—Incubator, Entrepreneur, Accelerator, evolve and adapt to an ever changing business and economicIntrapreneurs environment. A recent refinement with entrepreneurship education that is gaining broad acceptance is “business I. INTRODUCTION modeling” versus “business planning”. Champions of business
Intergroup coordination Software product engineering Integrated software management Training program Organization process definition Organization process focus 2-Repeatable Software configuration management Software quality assurance Software subcontract management Software project tracking Software project planning Requirements management 1-Initial Figure 1 CMM Levels and KPAs For Software DevelopmentAll organizations are, by definition, at least at Level 1. At this level, software development isdone
technologies into theirpedagogical toolsets. Within undergraduate engineering, learning technologies have beenidentified as a means to help faculty members move away from the traditional “stand anddeliver” teaching method that research has shown to dominate the hard disciplines relative to thesoft disciplines.e.g., 1,2,3 Though the opportunity to enhance education via technology ispromising, understanding the pedagogies that undergraduates encountered in high school beforearriving to college is important. Such understanding can assist in planning the pedagogies thatstudents will encounter during their first year of postsecondary education.This paper investigates the familiarity of new college students with technology in theclassroom—we present
into STEM courses andcareers. A pilot program in its home county began in June 2013 with an intensive all-dayworkshop at Hillsborough Community College’s Brandon Campus for local and regionaleducators. Attendees were invited to submit implementation plans for a program in their schoolusing the strategies learned at the workshop and an implementation plan template provided byFLATE. This poster and paper will cover the details of the workshop content and activities andthe projects which schools and teachers have begun in order to boost their female enrollments invarious STEM programs. FLATE is particularly focused on supporting the manufacturingworkforce, and schools working in related disciplines will be highlighted.Collaborate, Encourage, Lead
Anatomy, Biology, Environmental Science, and even Spanish. Participantsreceived 20 hours of professional development credit.The program was structured into two workshop sessions. The first session, during the summer of2012, consisted of three days of hands-on instruction. It focused on several instructional topics,including (a) Overview of Cloud Services, (b) Storing and Sharing Data in the Cloud, (c) Cloudsin Education and Collaboration in and out of the Classroom, (d) Cloud-based Tools for Real-timeCollaboration, (e) Course Management using Piazza, (f) Standards-based Lesson Planning andPost-workshop Assignment, (g) Creating a Lesson Plan, and (h) Using Public Data SetsAvailable in Amazon’s Cloud. At the end of the three-day workshop
schedule, participantsworked on faculty supervised research projects for half their time, and the rest was reserved forclassroom unit plans that participants would work on developing. Different from the first year,participants were assigned management roles during the summer. Also, each participant preparednew lesson plans and classroom activities that align with the Next Generation Science Standards(NGSS). The academic year class activities from first year were debriefed and learned lessonswere generated. In this paper, we will give the details about the RET Site’s management anddiscuss our experiences from our second year with the improvements and their effects. We hopethat our shared experiences (struggles, accomplishments, mistakes, etc.) will
is a second year doctoral student at the University of Michigan in Higher Education. His research interests focus on organizational communication and curriculum planning in post-secondary education. Page 24.745.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Influences on Engineering Instructors’ Emphasis on Interdisciplinarity in Undergraduate CoursesIntroductionSolving many of today’s technological and social challenges will require interdisciplinarythought and action1-5, and the growth of interdisciplinary engineering programs6 suggests that
, college freshman-level course forthose interested in learning about innovative idea generation and new venture creation. The keycontrast is that the non-credit MOOC is open and free to anyone worldwide and the mini-MOOC is a tuition-based, three-credit course exclusively for University of Marylandundergraduates.Both the MOOC and the mini-MOOC are multi-disciplinary courses to help students to learn thebasic business, strategy, and leadership skills needed to launch and manage new ventures. Topicsinclude learning how to assess the feasibility of a new venture, as well as how to apply bestpractices for planning, launching, and managing new companies. Students discuss a wide rangeof issues of importance and concern to entrepreneurs and learn to
programs.Thus, the challenge is to retain the large number of students entering engineering program whileremoving the students who have no interest in being retained. Enrollment management activitiesmust address these issues while addressing the pressure to grow the institution populationwithout compromising engineering program quality.To manage growth in the engineering college, an enrollment management system wasimplemented in 2012 and employs program admission requirements and student performance aswell as performance metrics. The enrollment management plan was developed by a committeeof faculty and staff advisors in the college of engineering. The plan addressed the increase innew admits to the college as well as strategies to remove non-completers
promising models and practices that could guide thedesign and implementation of the Pathways program, specifically on the topics of facultydevelopment and change in higher education. Since then, Epicenter staff members haveincorporated the recommendations from the literature review into the design of the Pathwaysprogram, which plans to launch in January 2014.This paper reports findings and recommendations from the literature review, synthesizes therecommendations with design decisions, and provides examples of how the decisions have beenrealized in components of the Pathways program. Finally, the conclusion offers reflections on thedesign process from Epicenter staff members as they balance implementing the (sometimesoverwhelming number of
environment. A vehicle’s path and control can be improved by using the WSNmore efficiently to ensure proper vehicle operation in the given application.At Texas A&M University-Kingsville, a new lab exercise for an unmanned surface vehicle hasbeen created for students to demonstrate how the sensor network improves the vehicle’s controland path planning. A simple sensor model is implemented in the exercise. The physics-basedmodel is analyzed for the vehicle. A “simulated sensor” input from the WSN results in thedevelopment of the control of the vehicle system during the laboratory exercise. Then thestudents compare the corresponding closed loop control system with and without the WSN inputin a path planning application. The closed loop system is
,synthesize, and use information when developing user requirements and engineeringspecifications. Understanding how students process information gathered during design mayallow instructors to counter the common mistakes students make when developing userrequirements and engineering specifications. Furthermore, research in this topic outside ofsoftware engineering is needed to determine whether the lessons learned in softwaredevelopment can apply to other disciplines, such as medical device design.Research DesignStudy PurposeThe following research questions motivated this study: How do students’ plans compare with their execution of the front-end phases of design with respect to gathering, synthesizing, and using information? Which
the economic analysis, software applications, and design standards and plan sets.A. CEE Curriculum (Junior & Senior Levels) Furthermore, annual senior (student) exit survey results also CEE 3705 Engineering Economics is a junior-level required showed that it is essential that they are learning the types ofcore course with traditionally total of 48-52 students enrollment skills that will make them competitive upon graduation and thatdivided into two sessions (average of 25 students per session). they have an opportunity to be creative while learning.Main course concepts and
applications of the design process, curriculum development, and fulfilling the needs of an integrated, multi-disciplinary first-year engineering educational environment through the use of collaborative learn- ing, problem-based and project-based learning, classroom interaction, and multiple representations of concepts.Mr. Alexander Danial Manasseh, Prometheus Education, Inc Alexander Manasseh is a developer of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) les- son plans, presiding over the not-for-profit corporation Prometheus Education, Inc. Alexander develops STEM lesson plans, performs STEM pedagogy research, and tailors STEM technology to the K-16 class- room. Prometheus Education, Inc. facilitates efficacy