Bethke, E., & Ansari, A., & Amos, J. R., & Bradley, J., & Ochia, R., & Golecki, H. M. (2024, June), Bridging Extracurricular Skill Needs in Bioengineering Capstone Design with Just-in-Time Workshops  Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. https://peer.asee.org/48410

\bibitem{asee_peer_48410}
  Bethke, E., \& Ansari, A., \& Amos, J. R., \& Bradley, J., \& Ochia, R., \& Golecki, H. M. (2024, June), \emph{Bridging Extracurricular Skill Needs in Bioengineering Capstone Design with Just-in-Time Workshops}
  Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Portland, Oregon.
  https://peer.asee.org/48410

Eliot Bethke, Ali Ansari, Jennifer R Amos, Joe Bradley, Ruth Ochia P.E., and Holly M Golecki.  "Bridging Extracurricular Skill Needs in Bioengineering Capstone Design with Just-in-Time Workshops".  2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon, 2024, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2024.  https://peer.asee.org/48410 Internet.  30 Jul, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_48410}
  Eliot Bethke, Ali Ansari, Jennifer R Amos, Joe Bradley, Ruth Ochia P.E., and Holly M Golecki.
  "Bridging Extracurricular Skill Needs in Bioengineering Capstone Design with Just-in-Time Workshops".
  \emph{2024 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Portland, Oregon, 2024, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2024.
  https://peer.asee.org/48410 Internet.  30 Jul, 2024

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title = "Bridging Extracurricular Skill Needs in Bioengineering Capstone Design with Just-in-Time Workshops"
booktitle = "2024 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition"
year = "2024"
month = "June"
address = "Portland, Oregon"
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Bioengineering senior design courses play a pivotal role in preparing students for real-world challenges by engaging them in interdisciplinary design projects. The rapid evolution of technology combined with students' diverse backgrounds often result in gaps in their foundational knowledge and skill sets. These gaps in knowledge and practical prototyping experience create challenges for students when engaging with the variety of design projects that are proposed. This paper presents an effort to address these skill gaps through the implementation of hands-on workshop modules within a bioengineering senior design course. These workshops - which occur “Just-in-Time” as students enter the prototyping phase - are strategically designed to align with requirements of the ongoing, externally sponsored senior design projects. Workshops include computer aided design (CAD), microcontroller programming, elastomer molding and casting, and programming in Python, and students were required to attend at least one of their choice. Workshop topics were selected after reviewing gaps in core curriculum and considering which skills would be most applicable to rapid prototyping. We mapped workshop attendance to team projects to understand student motivation for attendance, and collected student feedback after each workshop. Feedback was collected on the perceived utility of the workshops to capstone projects as well as the perceived value of the workshop to students’ future careers. We also evaluated evidence of the prototyping techniques present in final course projects to understand how the skills gained in workshops are used or expanded upon during the semester. Delivering these workshops throughout the course allows students to immediately use and apply these skills on their own design projects, which offers a unique advantage to the Just-in-Time modality. Results reveal the potential of Just-in-Time workshops to enhance experiential learning, reduce barriers to prototyping, and empower students to overcome obstacles encountered during the design process.
AU  - Eliot Bethke
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