Conference Session

FPD6 - First Year Curricula Development

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory Wight, Norwich University; R. Danner Friend, Norwich University; Jacques Beneat, Norwich University; William Barry, Norwich University

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semester includes hands-on work in the fluids laboratory. Students will measure the height of water above a weir and the amount of water flowing over it. They will then use MATLAB to show the relationship between the two and determine the appropriate weir coefficients.8. The final project of the second semester, which will serve as a capstone for the two-course sequence, involves the design of a water system for a medium-sized town. The design will include economic, environmental, and societal considerations as well as technical aspects of the design such as the size of reservoirs and pipes and the locations and capacities of pumps. Each team will be required to design, test, and debug a small scale model of the water system based

Conference Session

FPD1 - Early Success and Retention

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jale Tezcan, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; John Nicklow, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; James Mathias, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Lalit Gupta, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Rhonda Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

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. Ogot, An investigation on industry-sponsored design projects' effectiveness at the first-year level: potential issues and preliminary results. European Journal of Engineering Education, 2006. 31(6): p. 693-704.16. Larochelle, P., J. Engblom, and H. Gutierrez, A Cornerstone Freshman Design Experience. 2004 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition: Engineering Education Reaches New Heights, 2004.17. Qammar, H.K., et al., Impact of Vertically Integrated Team Design Projects on First Year Engineering Students. 2004 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition: Engineering Education Reaches New Heights, 2004.18. Dutson, A.J., et al., A Review of Literature on Teaching Engineering Design Through Project-Oriented Capstone

Conference Session

FPD4 - Teaching Methods for First Year Students

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Haungs, California Polytechnic State University; John Clements, California Polytechnic State University; David Janzen, California Polytechnic State University

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skills as opposed to directly lecturing about them. Over 60% of the students in ourclass had no prior programming experience, yet all of the student teams were successful indeveloping engaging Flash-based games. Student surveys revealed that nearly all studentscharacterize computer science as collaborative, multi-disciplinary, and creative. We believe ourclass can serve as a model to create other discipline-specific introductory courses.1.0 IntroductionProject-Based Learning (PBL) has been shown to improve student retention, increase long-terminterest, and improve performance in future design courses.2, 6, 9, 12 Capstone and cornerstone3courses are a common home for PBL in many universities. Capstone courses are well-known andcornerstone courses

Conference Session

1553 FPD3 - Computer & Programming Tools in First Year Instruction

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Robertson, Arizona State University; Sarah Roux, Arizona State University; Vivek Ramanathan, Arizona State University; Mark Rager, Arizona State University

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Perspectives on a Freshman Treatment of Electronic SystemsAbstract.The conventional approach to curriculum design is that students start with the basics of scienceand math and gradually progress towards a realistic integration of all their engineering skills in asenior capstone project. That approach is now challenged by changes in the assumed boundaryconditions. Students no longer progress through the program in lock-step. Electronicsapplications have evolved far beyond the components level and many cross-disciplinary skillsare needed. Finally, all students require a level of communications, team-working, trouble-shooting and representational skills that take a long time to mature so it is too late to wait till thesenior year to introduce them. The