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2024 ASEE-GSW

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Raj Desai, Midwestern State University

3concepts. The opportunity to learn real business and engineering skills while working on one’s ownidea should appeal to many students.The process most often used for idea generation is brainstorming10. This involves students whosuggest anything that comes to their mind, and feed off one another’s ideas, and seeks to create alarge list of potential products in an environment free of criticism. Students will then work togenerate potentially marketable product concepts.Once the list of potential products is developed, each product or concept should be evaluated,considering student interest in the project, strengths and weaknesses of the concept, feasibility ofexecution, etc. By the end of this process each student group should have a potentially

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2024 ASEE-GSW

Authors

Matthew Kuester, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor; Paul R Griesemer, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

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Diversity

students between the fall and spring semesters of their first year.Previous studies suggest that incorporating hands-on projects early in the curriculum can increasestudent retention and engagement across a range of contexts1-9, and specifically at a small institutionwith a limited enrollment like UMHB10. With this in mind, the engineering faculty sought toimplement a hands-on project into the first-year engineering course at UMHB. This paper describesthe implementation of this project, including motivation, project selection, course redesign, andassessment. First Year Course RedesignAs mentioned in the introduction, the UMHB engineering faculty sought to implement a hands-onproject into the first-semester

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2024 ASEE-GSW

Authors

Lance Leon Allen White, Texas A&M University; Trini Balart, Texas A&M University; Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University; Karan Watson P.E., Texas A&M University

time in their studiesto explore the questions and grand problems they are interested in and developing solutions morerapidly and better informed than previous students could without this technology. Taylor seemed tobe excited learning that this new technology would be implemented so quickly into the program, andexpressed how they look forward to being a better and more informed engineer now havingfamiliarized themself with the technology, and how every engineer should be ready to embrace thistechnology as time moves forward.Dr. Paige and Taylor both see the benefits these new AI technologies will present for educators andengineers soon, but the question of academic integrity issues seems to still linger in the back of Dr.Paige’s mind while

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2024 ASEE-GSW

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Ravi S Thyagarajan, Texas A&M University; Shadi Balawi, Texas A&M University; Arun R Srinivasa, Texas A&M University

Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX Copyright  2024, American Society for Engineering Education 3 4 Simple to operate 4 5 Engaging to students 4The students then utilized various concept generation and refinement techniques such as the 6-3-5and mind map methods to develop preliminary ideas for the exhibit, keeping in mind their researchon visits to local STEM museums. Of these, the 6-3-5 method proved most effective 3. From thismethod, the team narrowed down to a shortlist of ideas

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2024 ASEE-GSW

Authors

Arun John Abraham, St. Mary’s University - San Antonio, TX ; Rafael Moras P.E., St. Mary's University; Gopalakrishnan Easwaran, St. Mary's University; PAUL X UHLIG, St. Mary's University

Paper ID #44772AN EFFECTIVE HEURISTIC TO REDUCE TOTAL FLOWTIME FORRANDOMLY-STRUCTUREDFLOWSHOP PROBLEMSMr. Arun John Abraham, St. Mary’s University - San Antonio, TX The author is a Mechanical Engineer with experience in Plant Engineering, Shipping Logistics and coor- dinating major emergency unplanned refinery turnaround/shutdown activities. The writer was awarded a research-based engineering scholarship to work on this thesis.Dr. Rafael Moras P.E., St. Mary’s UniversityDr. Gopalakrishnan Easwaran, St. Mary’s UniversityPAUL X UHLIG, St. Mary’s University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024