professional experiences and research interests range from mechanical engineering facilities design to research that applied engineering and molecular biology approaches to the study of the skeletal response to mechanical loading. As a Mechanical Engineer, she worked on facility design projects involving mechanical systems that included heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and energy conservation systems, as well as R&D of air conditioning equipment for Navy ships. Additional research interests include the investigation of relationships among components of the indoor environment, occupants, and energy usage. Specifically, the effects of the indoor environment on occupant health and well-being and in parallel, how socially-mediated energy-saving strategies can increase awareness of energy use and/or increase energy saving behaviors. of group development fits the macrocosmic evolution of the program and is used as a framework within which to place the experiences, observations, and perspectives of the individuals associated with its conception and direction. Examples are provided of processes, failures, successes, and lessons learned, and references are provided to quantitative works describing the results of Program assessment over time.
A summary of key elements of the new Engineering Leadership Development Minor being developed at Penn State is presented. The program was started during the 199.5-96 academic year, and progress made, student feedback, and program status are discussed.
In this paper, we address the stimulation of creativity in online learning environments through our examination of a simple hands-on task aimed at teaching the principles of Intelligent Fast Failure (IFF) in the context of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) focused on creativity, innovation, and change. A simple physical "prototyping" exercise involving common household objects was designed and presented to a global community of online learners using the Coursera MOOC platform. Data gathered from the task outcomes and student reflections were analyzed with respect to gender and cultural differences, as well as correlations between the number of attempts/failures and creative performance metrics. Our results show that while the correlation between number of attempts (i.e., failure rate) and creative performance was statistically significant, the relationship was weak. In addition to these and other quantitative results, this research has value for engineering educators as a case study in the evolution, scaling, and transfer of face-to-face experiential learning tasks to global online learning environments.
, NYU CHARLES J. CAMARDA was an astronaut on NASA's Return-to-Flight mission (STS-114) following the Columbia tragedy, a former Director of Engineering at NASA Johnson Space Center, and currently NASA's Sr. Advisor for Innovation on detail to NYU-Poly as a Distinguished Engineer in Residence. His educational and research interests include thermal structures, hypersonic vehicle thermal protection systems, heat pipes, and innovative conceptual engineering design and creative problem solving.
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