Seattle, Washington
June 14, 2015
June 14, 2015
June 17, 2015
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Reporting Out: Dissemination of Several NSF Projects of Interest to Two-Year Colleges
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John Wadach is a professor and department chair of the Engineering Science and Physics Department at Monroe Community College in Rochester, NY. He has taught a variety of physics and engineering courses in his 30 year career. Wadach is most inspired by the use of design-build projects in his engineering courses.
Infusing a Concurrent Engineering Model into Academia is the title of the NSF TUES grant that he and co-PIs George Fazekas and Paul Brennan were awarded $200,000.
Wadach has been the co-organizer of the ASEE TYCD Model Design Contest for the past 10 years. His teams have finished first six times.
Wadach's awards include earning the State University of New York Distinguished Teaching Professor Rank, the American Community College Trustees William H. Meardy Faculty Award, and the 2014 Carnegie Foundation-CASE US Community College Professor of the Year.
Infusing a Concurrent Engineering Model into AcademiaMany Community Colleges offer both AS and AAS degrees in Engineering Science andEngineering Technologies respectively. Unfortunately, students in different disciplinesare often segregated from each other in core courses. We have designed two entry-levelcourses that are designed for both AS and AAS students to take together.In our Mechanical Design and Prototyping course both Engineering Science andPrecision Machining students learn to use CAD and CAM software in lecture and thenfabricate their designs using manual and CNC machines in lab. Faculty from bothdepartments team teach the course which entails a final design-build project and coursecompetition. A series of short instructional videos have been created to supplement classinstruction.Our Digital Electronics course is taken by both Engineering Science and ComputerTechnology students. This course has been developed and is taught by faculty from bothdepartments. The course includes the use of discrete components and FieldProgrammable Gate Arrays (FPGA). A set of custom hardware components have beendeveloped that can be interfaced to an FPGA and a microcontroller. Instructional videoshelp students prepare for laboratory exercises and the course concludes with a finaldesign-build project.The overall goal of this project is to teach students how to work in multi-disciplinaryteams and to make it easier for students to switch between AS and AAS programs. ACapstone Design course is being developed where small teams comprised of PrecisionMachining, Engineering Science, and Computer Technology students will solve asemester long design-build project.
Wadach, J. (2015, June), Infusing a Concurrent Engineering Model into Academia Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.24303
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