IMAGINE alearning environment where first-year students design a tracking system to keep an elderly person from wandering; . where teams of sophomores ‘discover’dynamics by analyzing kinetic sculptures; . where undergraduate students are so committed to completing anassistive technology design project for their disabled ‘customer’that they request lab access during spring break; . where a team of aerospace, (more…)

ABSTRACT: Professional engineering problems are manifold in nature and learning to solve them is a difficult task. All learning situations compass, in addition to the substance, also physical, social and cultural environments and are affected by many stakeholders. Student understanding of engineering problems and learning EPS can be enhanced by taking into account the whole learning environment’s effect on him or her. (more…)

Context: Current concerns within engineering education regarding low numbers of underrepresented minorities in engineering, serve as the basis for this research study which seeks to develop a deeper understanding of the engineering learning environment. Future studies will explore the contribution of the engineering learning environment to the underrepresentation of women and minorities within the engineering field. (more…)

The College of Engineering recognizes that engineering education is a discipline which needs to be formalized and expanded to encompass engineering competency and lifespan fluency. The diminishing interest of our country’s young people in engineering, growing deficits in educational preparedness particularly in STEM areas, the lack of diverse representation, and low persistence of U.S. engineering students (more…)

Abstract: Agent technology is a Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) approach to implement autonomous entities driven by beliefs, goals, capabilities, plans, and agency properties: adaptation, interaction, learning, etc. Software agents are the focus of considerable research by the artificial intelligence community, but there is still much to be done in the field of software engineering in order to systematically (more…)

Service-Learning in engineering education is gaining ground throughout the country and throughout the variety of disciplinary focuses within engineering education. Examples of service-learning exist in mechanical engineering, construction science, computer science and engineering, electrical engineering, and other forms of related education. Engineering is uniquely situated for the integration of service-learning into the curriculum (more…)

A. Defining the Landscape Education at a distance, as provided through correspondence courses and video media, has been largely supplanted by online education as the world’s networking capabilities have become ubiquitous. Studying engineering online from anywhere and at anytime has become possible in recent years but is not yet widespread throughout all engineering education disciplines. (more…)

Engineering Learning Center (ELC) Fall 2009 Supplemental Instruction (SI) Schedule (9-27) Sponsored by: College of Engineering, Alcoa, Caterpillar, Inc. Math 105 SI Leader: Dominic Smith (domsmith) Sunday 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm 1460 Mason Hall Math 115 SI Leader: Stanford Goss (scgoss) Sunday 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm 1448 Mason Hall Math 116 SI Leader: Dominic Smith (domsmith) Sunday 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm (more…)

1. Experience with Risk, not with Role, drives recruitment Often teams are built by experienced managers, mimicking org charts of past jobs. Candidates are identified with experience in similar roles, preferably similar technology. In SP we use risk reduction as the guiding principle for recruitment. The ideal candidate has on the job experience with similar risks and preferably with failure. Whether or not the job/role (more…)

This final report on the project titled A new paradigm to guide engineering learning and culture has been influenced and improved by the input of many people. The author wants to express her appreciation to those who have played the most significant roles in creation of this report: • Ros Gill – Flexible Learning Framework • Pam Boyle – Double-Click Editing, and • Ann Davenport and Peter Bushell – Centre (more…)