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Talal D. Gamadi; Bethany Disque; Marshal Watson; Lloyd Heinze

increasing the design I, PETR 4121 from 1 toAdvisory Board (PIAB) curriculum committee, industry 2 credit hours, making a total of 4 creditsurveys and senior exit surveys. Technological advances hours of design I and II instead of 3hrs.have also been an integral part of the transitions in the Secondly, the department plans to poll recentcurriculum. The curriculum revisions are identified below: graduates (May 2015 and

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John Etringer; Stephen OÍBrien; Austin Updegraff; Timothy Langerhans; Andrew Nadjari; Chan Kim; Aaron Hill; Michael Campbell

productsrecently switched from systems engineering. of this effort included a comprehensive design report to Past designs have relied heavily on the work of previous include drawings, a model of the bridge, and a briefing toyears, which has led to stagnant performance at the client. The integrated design experience was augmentedcompetitions. Our hypothesis is that by entering different by formal classroom instruction in civil engineeringperspectives into the group at an early stage, a systems design and advanced topics in civil engineeringrevolutionary approach will ensue and overall performance component design. This 3.0 credit hour course meets a totalwill increase. The team did not

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John Attia; Mahamadou tembely; Lisa Hobson; Pamela Obiomon

yes integrated into lecturewhere 𝐵1 = 300 mV, 𝐵2 = 100 mV, and 𝑓1 = 2 KHz. courseWhereas, a project involving signal decomposition wasperformed in the ELEG 3013 Network Theory II course 4. Assessment Resultsthrough the use of the ADB Spectrum Analyzer, waveform All students taking the courses completed evaluationsynthesis using an adder circuit was done in the ELEG surveys to provide the data for feedback and analysis on the3043 Electronics I class. The two projects deepened the effectiveness of the experimental centric pedagogy as wellstudents’ understanding of Fourier series expansion. as

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Gholam H. Massiha; Shelton L. Houston

Online Master Program in System Technology Gholam H. Massiha & Shelton L. Houston University of Louisiana at Lafayette Department of Industrial Technology, P.O. Box 43636, Lafayette, LA 70504 E-mail: massiha@louisiana.edu Abstract based and integrates a very different skill set of learned aspects directed toward similar general topical areas which The University of Louisiana at Lafayette proposed the are critical to industry

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Daniel Puperi

. Taylor, J. Huguent, T. Dent, J. Chappell, and K. Mahan, “Vertical integration of ExcelMATLAB tools. in the thermal mechanical engineering curriculum,” in Proceedings of the IMECE2008, 2008, pp. 1–9. Acknowledgement [4] P. L. Ritger and N. A. Peppas, “A simple equation for description of solute release I. Fickian and non-fickian All results presented were

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Colby Ryan; Alexis Crandall; Mitch Martinez; David Kennedy; Kristian Ecolango; Jay Porter; Joseph Morgan

testing of Schneider HVAC control products. As in thePartnership model works well in meeting scope, time and previous example, Schneider Electric is an example of abudget constraints. Based on these successful prior large company with embedded system needs that areprojects, T STAR and its partner, the Mobile Integrated commiserate with the ESET curriculum goals. BySolutions Laboratory (MISL) at Texas A&M, have been sponsoring a project-based Capstone, Schneider Electricagain selected by NASA scientists to design, develop and was not only able to outsource low-priority productmaintain a new class of system that will operate over an development work but to also evaluate four potential new

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Raj Desai

ethical, socially conscious, environmentally sound, andentry into recycling, and increasing environmental concerns globally aware [8]. Education must make project basedregarding resource use and waste disposal. learning the predominant technical student learning mode [9]. This paper explores the idea of pallet recycling as a1. Introduction tool for teaching innovation in an inexpensive, sustainable, and impactful approach. We asked students in our solid modeling course tothink of innovative ways to recycle pallets

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Xiaohua Li

Engineering,learning experiences or not, and which factors were most http://www.westpoint.edu/cfe/literature/hitt_10.pdfimportant in designing an immersion chiller. Survey [4] Sundararajan, S., & Faidley, L. E., & Meyer, T. R.results indicated this was a very successful project for (2012, June), Developing Inquiry-based Laboratoryproject-based learning. Nineteen out of nineteen students Exercises for a Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Paper(100%) agreed that the design completion of immersion presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference, San Antonio,chiller aroused their curiosities of heat transfer; nineteen Texasout of nineteen students (100%) liked this project; Eighteen [5] J. M. Chicharro , A

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Chaoyi Wang; Michael Frye; Sreerenjini Nair

, field trips, and significant interactions with real-world contexts which meet more students’ interests.guest speakers, all of which were designed to increase the Four two-week miniGEMS STEAM camps were hosted atmiddle school girls’ interests in STEM-related fields. This UIW for a total of eight weeks starting June 5 till August 4paper provides an overview of miniGEMS STEAM camp, in 2017. Over 114 middle school females and ten middlemotivation for miniGEMS camp, and details on practicing school science teachers participated. Project Basedproject-based play activities in an informal learning Learning curriculum was introduced over the two-weekenvironment. camp

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Jorge Leon; Angie Hill Price; Mathew Kuttolamadom

, number of jobs that the ET graduates were a good fit forbuilding systems & HVAC, systems integrators, and related (and eligible) far exceed the number of graduates. Thechannels. Each program’s Industry Advisory Board Industrial Advisory Board representatives of the existingmembers will be engaged as recruiting channels in counterpart B.S. program in MMET also echoed theirindustry. Efforts will be made to make sure the candidates support and demand for these graduates. Next, the expectedhave an appropriate bachelor’s degree and sufficient student demand was surveyed. It was observed that theindustry knowledge and experience to make them demand for the program far exceeded the

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Peggy Kulesz; David Ewing

future in theHeeding the concern of faculty members regarding the engineering profession. As the authors of [5] have noted,students’ ability to write professionally, the curriculum integrating writing into engineering courses is far morecommittee for ENGR 1300 collaborated with the English effective than having separate language courses withoutDepartment to create an initial curriculum that tasked engineering collaboration. Therefore, ENGR 1300 has anstudents with basic writing tasks such as professional imbedded writing element in collaboration with UTA’semails, resumes, reports, and simple process papers. While English department. In Spring 2017, a new writingthese assignments seemed to

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Timothy Urban; Margaret Baguio

internship. The residential internship is for two weeks where interns must be on-site at The University of Texas Center for2. Background Space Research. The internship includes daytime research The original program began in 2010 with an education activities, experiential learning activities, evening STEMgrant designed to leverage a set of NASA projects at CSR, activities, and field investigation. Each year, several teachers andusing NASA’s Earth observing satellites as a catalyst for the graduate students are selected as chaperones for the SEES programimplementation of a six-week high school student internship and

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Jitendra Tate; Craig Hanks; Harold Stern; Walt Trybula

engineer; an electricalintegrate ethics education throughout the curriculum engineer; a philosopher with expertise in ethics inof the still-new Ingram School of Engineering. science, technology, engineering, and business; and aDuring work on an NSF funded grant, we were able representative from industry who is active in ethicsto infuse ethics related modules in 13 different education. We have each been involved incourses, across three colleges and at all levels of curriculum development and program building,undergraduate study. Our goal in participating in the professional outreach, and research on ethicsGSW ASEE meeting is to share ideas about education.addressing

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Matt Leonard; Joseph Morgan; Jeremy P. Coffelt

development of theDSTR robot as a collaborative design developed by theMobile Integrated Solutions Laboratory (MISL) at TexasA&M University and ASEP 4X4 Inc. Texas Instruments hasbeen a major partner in the integration of the controlelectronics, and Texas Space Technology Applications andResearch (T STAR) LLC has played a significant role in thepropagation of the DSTR robot as an adaptable appliedresearch/education/STEM outreach platform. The paper willpresent examples of the strong industry-academic Fig. 1 DSTR Computer Modelrelationships that allow the DSTR robot to be utilized in amultitude of experiential learning environments. In addition The DSTR Robot was designed by a number ofto a number of STEM

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Christine Julien

introduction of computerintroduced in the first segment, all while being attentive to the programming (i.e., in the K-12 years) without good softwaregood software engineering practices acquired in the second engineering practice (including a focus on requirements,segment. In addition to presenting the course curriculum, the design, testing, etc.) risks developing a generation of nearlypaper also discusses a first offering of the course in a three- capable students who are familiar with