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2015 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Linda S. Hirsch

Using Problem-based Learning to Introduce Middle School Students to Engineering and the Engineering Design Process Linda S. Hirsch, Ed.D. Center for Pre-College Programs, New Jersey Institute of TechnologyIntroduction of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) increased efforts to integrateengineering concepts and principles of engineering design into K-12 science curriculum, butprogress has been slow. Many current teachers are not knowledgeable about engineering and/orschools have not given them adequate support. Summer enrichment programs designed toincrease students’ interest in the STEM fields can be instrumental in providing young studentswith essential

Collection

2015 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

R. Alan Cheville; Michael S. Thompson

Developing Representations to Scaffold Capstone Design R. Alan Cheville, Michael S. Thompson Bucknell UniversityThis presentation discusses how representations—methods for how ideas are expressed—havebeen incorporated into a capstone design project in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Overthe past several years the authors have been developing methods that effectively represent thedesign process. This work discusses how four different representations were implemented in thefirst semester of a one year capstone design course to allow student teams to self-manage aproject in the second semester. The four representations are: 1) A functional abstraction that