studentsparticipating in IoT-based projects.In this project a team at two Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), Texas A&M University-Kingsville and Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, has developed new materials addressingthe use of AI and taking into account cybersecurity. Using Python and appropriate Python libraries,pre-trained AI algorithms are added to Python coding which will allow more advanced featuressuch as image recognition to be included in the student projects. Information on cybersecuritystandards have been added to student project-related materials to introduce the student to anongoing design and operational concern for IoT-enhanced products and projects. An exercise usingAI has been added to the IoT tutorial materials previously
whether to work alone or in self-selected groups for the course projects; and (2)allowing students the option of how to communicate their knowledge on the projects (writtenreport, website, or recorded video). The quality of the students’ knowledge about sustainabilityas revealed through the projects was highly uneven, and on average weaker than their scores onthe more traditional technical portions of the project. It is hoped that the examples and lessonslearned will help others integrate sustainability topics into materials science courses. However, itappears difficult to instill a sociotechnical mindset and overcome the engineering culture whichpreferences technical topics.IntroductionIt is important that engineers work to create products and
andConstruction, was offered for the first time in the spring semester of 2023. This case studyexplains the course design and uses two-year data to evaluate the impacts of EJI topics onstudent learning and attitudes toward EJI in the context of highway/transportation projects.Student written comments reveal the strengths of this EJI-designated engineering course as wellas areas for future improvement.Course Design In addition to conventional topics of highway geometric design, a junior-level HighwayDesign and Construction course contains a module on EJI in highway projects. This EJI modulecomprises two lectures and two assignments – one individual essay and one team project. Twocase studies in New England are presented to students, followed by
realized that elements of technical communication needed to be added tothe instructional methods of ENGR 1100. In the redesign of the ENGR 1100 curriculum, it becameapparent that each lecture topic had opportunities to incorporate some form of technicalcommunication into lesson. This material would be implemented using traditional content deliverymethods, such as lectures, in-class activities, homework assignments, teamwork assignments, anda semester-long design project. By implementing these changes, the students can further build theirengineering toolbox, prepare themselves for future engineering courses, build their confidence incommunicating with others, and prepare themselves for future workplace endeavors.Objectives The objectives of
field: engineering education, interdisciplinary education ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Exploring an experiential learning project:A case study through Kolb’s Learning TheoryAbstract: China has advanced the reform plan of “Emerging Engineering Education” since 2017. 1457teaching reform projects involving over 300 universities under the “Emerging Engineering Education”initiative have been approved. In this context, the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)has actively participated in engineering education reform based on experiential learning model. This studyinvestigates the impact of experiential learning programs on the
Paper ID #45731Engaging High School Students in a DOT-Funded Summer Camp to PromoteTransportation Engineering Majors and CareersDr. Xi Wang, Drexel University Dr. Xi Wang is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Drexel University. She received her Ph.D. and M.Eng both in Civil Engineering, from the University of Kentucky and Auburn University. She is licensed as a Professional Engineer and LEED Green Associate. She is teaching a range of courses in construction management and will be assisting capstone design projects that directly serve regional construction firms. Her research interests include technology adoption in
and intensity, stakeholder engagements, funding, grading emphasis, and expecteddesign and project management approaches, amongst others.Having been involved in teaching a variety of capstones over the past decade, the authorspropose a capstone classification in this paper, to make it easier to compare capstone courses.The goal of this classification is to help improve and connect capstones, and make it easier tocompare best practices in different capstone course types. This paper builds upon previous workthat proposed a standardized way to classify capstone courses, by providing some text andcontext behind the classification, with the goal of testing out these capstone classificationdescriptions with conference attendees and other
efforts for various product lines in global markets. He received his PhD from the University of Rochester and his MBA from Boston College.Dr. Kevin Galloway, Vanderbilt University Dr. Galloway is a Research Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Vanderbilt University, also holding the positions of Director of Making at the Wond’ry, Vanderbilt’s innovation center, and serves on the Advisory and Leadership Council in Vanderbilt’s Institute of National Security. He completed his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Through extensive project involvement and collaborations, Dr. Galloway has cultivated a diverse skill set encompassing mechanical design
within a College of Engineering, and was started well before doctoral degree granting programswere established. It is one of the pioneering centers for the enhancement of engineering education in theUnited States [2].As we enter the 35th year of the Leonhard Center’s existence, we reflect on its accomplishments. The purposeof this paper is to describe the Leonhard Center and its impact; utilizing an artifact analysis of advisory boardmeeting minutes and annual reports submitted by Leonhard Center-funded project grantees; as well as adiscussion of the lessons learned after decades of contributions to College of Engineering program faculty,curricula, and teaching and learning.Overview of the Leonhard CenterAt its launch, the Leonhard Center
at The University of Texas at San Antonio. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Design and Planning from the CoDr. Rachel Mosier P.E., Oklahoma State University Dr. Rachel Mosier is an Associate Professor at Oklahoma State University, with a background in structural engineering and project management. Dr. Mosier has received regional and international teaching awards through the Associated Schools of Construction ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Exploring AI’s Role in Transforming Construction Industry PracticesAbstractThis research explores the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on advancedconstruction technologies. The study investigates how AI
of the new course based on the experiencegained and the assessment data collected in the previous offering. Also, several examples of thesmart products designed by student teams are discussed. The course contains active learning andproject-based learning components. A smart flowerpot device was integrated into the lectures asan active learning platform. For project management, students are introduced to the Agilemethod, which is widely used in software development companies and is the leading softwareengineering methodology for IoT development.1. IntroductionPhysical objects (things), such as thermostats and doorbell cameras, connected to the Internetallow remote network access to these devices creating the so called Internet of Things
Paper ID #47199Promoting STEM through summer research experiences for K-12 teachers ina group settingDr. Hua Li, Texas A&M University - Kingsville Dr. Hua Li, a Professor in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, is interested in AI, sustainable manufacturing, renewable energy, sustainability assessment, and engineering education. Dr. Li has served as P.I. and Co-P.I. in various projects funded by different federal agencies.Prof. Kai Jin, Texas A&M University - Kingsville Dr. Kai Jin is a Professor of Industrial Engineering and Co-PI of the MERIT project. Her research interests
Boulder ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025Connecting academia and industry: Piloting an industry mentor program in a first-year engineering design courseTo enhance design education and encourage retention in engineering, it is recommended toincrease students’ engagement with industry professionals. While industry engagement oftengrows throughout students’ undergraduate years, typically culminating in industry-sponsoredcapstone projects and summer internships, there is an important opportunity to engage studentsearlier, such as in their first year, to motivate them and offer valuable perspectives. To fill thisgap, we explored the integration of industry mentorship in a first-year project
-dimensionalgeospatial data analysis, and Cartopy for n-dimensional geospatial data visualization.Throughout this course, students not only learn how to use these tools, but also how to leveragePython for the analysis and visualization of water and environmental data. Data is explored fromvarious sources such as NOAA, NASA, Copernicus, USGS, and Data.Gov. Data is handled withformats such as csv, shapefile, and NetCDF. Specialized resources tailored to students’ interestsare utilized, such as Geemap Python-API of Google Earth Engine (multi-petabyte catalog ofsatellite imagery and geospatial datasets), CMIP6 datasets for climate projections, and FloPyPython-API of MODFLOW for groundwater modeling. Additionally, students are introduced tothe application of machine
engineeringeducation. This endeavor has allowed our IAB members to become active partners engaged inpromoting professional practice. Our IAB members have partnered with us over two years in a)hosting Industry Networking events every semester b) hosting professional panels and c)partnering with a new program titled PIPES. PIPES (Professional Industrial PartnershipEngagement for Students) is a unique CO-OP like opportunity for the students to work with keycompanies or local agencies for course credit. Students can replace their Junior and Seniorengineering clinic courses for a total of eight credits if they want to work outside of a faculty-ledproject. The program gives students a chance to try out the real civil engineering projects andwork side-by-side with
external grants, actively promoting computer hardware and VLSI research and education. Dr. Cui is a senior member of IEEE and a member of HKN, ACM, ASEE, and SPIE.LUJUN ZHAI, Prairie View A&M UniversityDr. Shuza Binzaid Dr. Shuza Binzaid (PI) is a Research Associate Professor in the SMART center. He has 20 years of experience in various projects for leading and supervising innovative teams of engineers at professional, academic graduate, and undergraduate levels. He has more than 14 years of experience in various fields of energy effects, energy conservation, renewable energy, VLSI microcontroller systems, and automation engineering projects. He is very experienced in the systems-level design of sensors and sensing
). This initiative provides high school students from Chicago and Latin America withinformal education in computer science, utilizing the STEAM framework. Local students from Chicagoare enrolled in the university's TRIO Upward Bound program, while international students receivesponsorship from local institutions or universities. All participants are Spanish speakers, and instructionis conducted in Spanish.The primary objective of this initiative is to create a collaborative environment for adolescents fromvarious backgrounds to engage in collective projects that tackle socially significant issues. The programfeatures remote synchronous meetings every second Saturday for four hours, complemented byasynchronous work through a Learning Management
topics are introduced to students: Ohm’s Law, Kirchhoff’svoltage and current laws, methods of circuit analysis, as well as capacitors, inductors, binaryarithmetic, Boolean algebra, logic gates, operational amplifiers, diodes and applications. Problemsets related to these topics are assigned. As reported in this paper, to improve motivation andlearning, application-oriented and hands-on design labs and projects were developed, includingsensors, Bode plots and filters, counter design, and data acquisition. This paper will describe someof the developed projects and labs.Evaluations were based on student surveys (course evaluations) and student work (assignedhomework, exams and lab exercises). Recent offerings of this course taught in the
Education, 2025 Generation of Peer Mentor Training Modules for Academic Makerspaces (NSF IUSE)This work outlines the course mapping structure of a training program focused onhelping undergraduate peer mentors effectively assist first-year students in academicmakerspaces, design courses, and laboratory classrooms. Student learning inunconventional learning environments such as makerspaces can be challenging,particularly if the learning requires the students to engage in teams to complete thenon-traditional learning activities associated with project and problem-based learning.The goal of the peer mentor preparation program is to provide undergraduate peermentors with the knowledge, tools, feedback, and practice
projects funded by various entities, including the Spanish government and the European Economic Community. ´ L´opez S´anchez, Universitat Polit`ecnica de CatalunyaMr. Raul Mr. Ra´ul L´opez S´anchez holds a degree in Computer Engineering (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2010) and a Technical Engineering degree in Management Informatics (Facultat d’Inform`atica de Barcelona, Universitat Polit`ecnica de Catalunya, 2002). His professional career has been primarily focused on teaching, particularly in secondary and vocational training education. Since 2019, he has served as an associate lecturer at both the Institute of Education Sciences and the Facultat d’Inform`atica de Barcelona of the Universitat Polit`ecnica de
course for upper-level general engineering students. The project had threeobjectives: to apply the course material to a historical aerospace application, to encouragestudents to explore the societal and historical context of aerospace engineering, and to foster adesire for lifelong learning in engineering students. Each student (N = 16) selected a narrativenon-fiction book about aerospace history from a curated list of titles available at the campuslibrary in physical or electronic form. After reading their book, students wrote a short bookreview, answered reflection questions about the intersection of society and aerospace technology,and gave a short presentation to the class in which they related concepts taught in the course(aircraft top
Engineering (APSE), as well as an editorial member for Journal of Testing and Evaluation and International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology. He serves panel member for several NCHRP and ACRP projects. He is also a registered professional engineer in Alabama and LEED AP.Dr. Min-Wook Kang, University of South Alabama Dr. Kang is a professor of Civil, Coastal, and Environmental Engineering at the University of South AlabamaDr. John Cleary, University of South Alabama ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Case Study of Integrating Standards, Codes, and Specifications into Engineering Curricula: Various Pathways to Professional ReadinessAbstractFor professional engineers
develop solutions to challenges, but also to explore and map the‘interconnectedness’ among various systems and the ‘dynamic impacts’ among parts of thesystems as well as making links to the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs). Collaborative projects were an integral part of our design course, where students workin teams to tackle complex, open-ended, wicked problems framed around key sustainabilitythemes. These projects were co-developed with the Office of Sustainability at the University ofCalgary and require not only technical skills but also creativity, critical thinking, and effectivecommunication. By engaging with real-world challenges, students consider diverse perspectivesand develop inclusive solutions that address the
off grid solar powered systems. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Design of An Optical Sensing System in Near-Ultraviolet (UV) Spectrum to Detect Environmental Surface Contamination AbstractThis paper presents a multidisciplinary research project to develop an optical sensing system basedon hybrid Ultraviolet-Visible (UV-VIS) spectrum image fusion algorithms that can contribute tothe technical advances for the automated Ultraviolet Disinfection (UVD) mobile systems. Theobjectives of the proposed research were twofold: 1) To establish a collaborative project betweenthe Departments of Engineering and Biology to provide training and mentoring
develop and implementparticipatory action research (PAR) projects in their classrooms and disseminate their findings.They will also receive training in leadership, the Next Generation Science Standards,student-centered science instruction, and professional learning community facilitation. Theprogram aims to address Michigan's critical teacher shortage and improve science learningoutcomes by developing teacher leaders who can mentor novice teachers and driveimprovements in STEM education.Over 90 applications were received for the 30 available spots. The program began in January2025, with amaster's-seeking cohort beginning online coursework and a master’s-holding cohortbeginning professional development activities. The project's impact on
addressing these challenges. Front-end design deals withthe highly open-ended nature of the design process such as problem framing, need finding, and ideation. Given thisopen-endedness, it can be particularly hard to implement in K-12 settings. This NSF-funded project seeks to supportteachers in engaging secondary students in front-end design where they explore and define problems; and thengenerate and review design ideas that combine scientific, technical engineering, social and contextualconsiderations. The project takes a design-based research approach in developing curriculum and a web-basedplatform. The platform enables collaborative content generation, sharing, sketching tools, and scaffolding for ideageneration. We present preliminary results
in the first year of an engineering curriculum reinforcestheir foundational nature. As first-year students enter university with a wide range ofbackgrounds, it can be difficult to create an immersive and engaging introductory experience thatreinforces these foundational skills without relying on a deeper understanding of technicalmaterial. In fact, for some students, introductory projects with roots in highly technical materialmay be alienating, damaging to student confidence, and ultimately detrimental to measures ofacademic success and degree persistence. It has been shown that student confidence in their ownacademic ability is affected by self and peer performance [1],[2] and the first year of a student’suniversity experience impacts
Engineering Education, 2025 Design and Organization of a Bring-up First Vertically-integrated Chip Design and Fabrication Co-curricularAbstractThe advent of lower-cost application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) fabrication throughmulti-project wafer submissions and open-source synthesis tooling, such as those provided byEfabless, brings a novel opportunity for a vertically-integrated student-led co-curricular based onthe design and fabrication of custom ASICs. Based on a bring-up first methodology thatemphasizes the hands-on experience of testing and validating physical hardware early in thelearning journey, ChipForge encourages students to extend the concepts learned in their existingcoursework to practical applications in
Paper ID #48170WIP: Empowering First-Year Engineering Students for Career Choices throughHands-On AI Hardware ExperiencesWoorin Hwang, University of Florida Woorin Hwang is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Teaching and Learning at the University of Florida. Her research is focused on assisting learners’ career choices by integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) in teaching and learning, with ongoing projects related to AI literacy, Edge AI, and recommender system in engineering education. Prior to joining the University of Florida, she worked as a teacher and instructional designer in South Korea.Andrea Ramirez-Salgado
junior students gain earlyexperience with engineering tools and techniques. They also learn the iterative nature of the designprocess and acquire hands-on experience with research methods, fabrication, and systemintegration. The paper also explores the students' perspectives on the value of engaging in researchearly in their academic journeys.This project aims to develop a sonar-based UAS that uses sound to create a map of its surroundings,enabling the aircraft to navigate and avoid obstacles. The quadrotor design features a central framemade of two stacked carbon fiber plates, with four booms extending from the corners. The frontcompartment is designed to resemble the head of a long-eared bat, with a speaker placed insidethe mouth to emit