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John Attia; Mahamadou tembely; Lisa Hobson; Pamela Obiomon

of ECE Programs - The View from Students and Instructors, ”Mobile Hands-On STEM Education,” Proceedings of Proc. of ASEE 123rd Annual Conference & Exposition,ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Atlanta, GA, New Orleans, LA, June 26-29, 2016.June 2013. [18] Connor, K.A., Y. Astatke, C. J. Kim , M.F.[6] Huette, L. (2011, June), Connecting Theory and Chouikha, D. Newman, K. Gullie, A.A. Eldek, S. S.Practice: Laboratory-based Explorations of the NAE Devgan, A.R. Osareh, J. Attia, S. Zein-Sabatto, and D. L.Grand Challenges Paper presented at 2011 Annual Geddis, “Experimental Centric Pedagogy in Circuits andConference

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Chaoyi Wang; Michael Frye; Sreerenjini Nair

exploring how to grow the mathematics program. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.number of camps and how to better integrate music in the (2015).program. By applying play theory and informal and non- [11] Lent, R. W., Brown, S. D., & Hackett, G. Socialformal learning theory, the AVS Lab can host to have a cognitive career theory. In D. Brown (Ed.), Career choicemore significant impact on the San Antonio community. and development, Vol. 4, (pp. 255–311). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. (2002). [12] Sadler, P. M., Sonnert, G., Hazari, Z., & Tai, R. Acknowledgement

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Tony McClary; Jacqueline A. Zeiber; Patricia Sullivan; Steven Stochaj

knowledge and retention?” Journal of Technology4.1 Discussion Education, 1(2), p. 26-33. (1990).Results from this year’s survey suggest that participating in [2] Yilmaz, M., Ren, J., Custer, S., & Coleman, J. “Hands-the program increased high school students’ perceived and on summer camp to attract K-12 students to engineeringactual knowledge of the engineering discipline. Completing fields.” IEE Transactions on Education, 53(1), p. 144-151.the program also led to increased interested in the field of

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P.L.Stephan Thamban; Dani Fadda P.E.

different institutions, theinductive. While there may be a discussion [1] as to which authors realized the need to study, systematically, theis more effective, in either scenario, students are generally impact different teaching methods had to student classroomeducated over a period of over 45 minutes in a room learning experience at their University. In this paper, wesetting. The issue that we wanted to consider was to report our data from the first such study related to theimprove the efficiency in learning within that span. impact of interruptions (by introducing pauses during Since the 1970’s [2], it has been reported, that the lectures and in-class-assignments) during 75-minute

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Viktor N_ssi; Ana Goulart

lab that serves several undergraduate courses whilebeing used by graduate research assistants and professors.3.1 – CoursesTable 1 lists the courses that use the wireless laboratory atAalto University. Table 1 – Courses taught at the Wireless Lab at Aalto University Course Title ELEC-E7410 Communication transmission lines ELEC-E7250 Laboratory course in communications engineering ELEC-C7320 Software radio course COM-EV Wireless Transmission Systems Fig. 2 A simple and memorable experiential learning (Summer Course for Texas A&M) S-72.2311 Laboratory course in

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Maura Borrego; Anita Patrick; Luis Martins; Meagan Kendall

. 7 Diamantopoulos, A., Sarstedt, M., Fuchs, C., Wilczynski, P., and Kaiser, S.: ‘Guidelines for choosingAcknowledgement between multi-item and single-item scales for constructThis work was funded by the U.S. National Science measurement: a predictive validity perspective’, Journal ofFoundation through grant numbers 1636449 and 1636404. the Academy of Marketing Science, 2012, 40, (3), pp. 434-The views presented are those of the authors and not 449necessarily those of the NSF. The authors wish to thank 8 Curran, P.J., West, S.G., and Finch, J.F.: ‘TheNathan Choe

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Hyun Seop Lee; Y. D. Kim; Edwin Thomas

Education, Journal ofSolidWorks. From the comparison of the results from Engineering Education (2005)various methods used in the project, students were [4] D. Magin, and S. Kanapathipillai, Engineering students'encouraged to found the differences in the results and their understanding of the role of experimentation, Europeancauses. Journal of Engineering Education, vol.25 No.4, p351-358 Through overall progress in three month, the students had (2000)opportunities to apply the theories to the given model, to [5] Osman Yasar and Rubin H. Landau, Elements ofestimate forces on members by using electronic devices, and Computational Science and

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Mario Toussaint; Don Ploger

test prime numbers. [4] Kolb, D. (1976). Learning style inventory technicalFurthermore, we only need to test numbers that are less manual. Boston, MA: McBer.than or equal to the square root of the given number.Therefore, for any number up to 100, we only need to test [5] Papert, S. (1980). Mindstorms: Children, Computers,the prime numbers less than 10, namely 2, 3, 5, and 7. Figure 9 shows the results of the “Is it prime?” example and Powerful Ideas. Basic Books.for 87. The XL program concludes that 87 is compositebecause there is an additional factor (namely, 3). The [7] Piaget, J. (1972). Intellectual Evolution fromstudent could

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Ifte Choudhury

, particularly on [7] Young, J. R. “Reclaiming Friday,” Chronicle of HigherFridays, may provide more empowerment to the students Education, 49(32), p. A46 (2003).and encourage them to attend the classes. However, this isonly a conjecture. Farther studies are recommendedfocusing particularly on reclaiming Fridays. References[1] Moore, A. S. “Off off off campus,” New York Times, NY, January 31 (2013).[2] Reed, M. “Ask the administrator: Friday classes and enrollments,” Inside Higher Education. Retrieved December 1, 2017 from https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions- community-college-dean/ask-administrator-friday- classes-and-enrollments (2015).[3] Pennsylvania State

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Christine Julien

, how successful the student was at completing thebehavior diagram (e.g., an activity diagram or a sequence assigned task(s) and how well he or she believes he or she hasdiagram). As part of this step, we also encourage the students mastered the material. Each survey then asks (1) what was theto take a test-driven development mindset and begin single most difficult thing about the module; (2) what was theconceiving of, documenting, and implementing the test cases student’s

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Daniel Puperi

collected from student work release from non-swellable devices in the form of slabs,submitted in BME 303L from Fall 2016-Fall 2017. spheres, cylinders or discs,” J. Control. Release, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 23–36, 1987. [5] J. Oyaas, I. Storrø, H. Svendsen, and D. W. Levine, “The References effective diffusion coefficient and the distribution[1] S. R. Marek, W. Liechty, and J. W. Tunnell, “Controlled constant for small molecules in calcium

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Kenneth Van Treuren

inproject are effective in challenging and exciting the Thermodynamics Using the Flipped Classroom and Think-students about the design of gas turbine engines. The Pair-Share Pedagogies,” Paper ID # 11334, 2015 ASEEcompany context for teams better prepares students for Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, WA, June 14-what they will face in industry. The initial day module was 17, 2015.an effective way to introduce the topic of a B-52H Re- [9] http://www.theengineer.co.uk/aerospace/in-engine and to get students thinking about what that might depth/dream-factories.article accessed on 1/11/12.require. Writing an RFP gave the students experience and [10] Boren, B., Rahimian, S., Malone, M., and

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Thomas J. Dobrowski

of Operatinglayout in commercial and industrial settings Engineers (Local 150) is one of the largestare typically required to have union union locals in the United States. Its jurisdiction covers the southeast corner ofmembership. Iowa and the northern portions of Illinois andThe survey of testing firms shows that when Indiana. To offset shrinking unionthe Local 150 started to organize the field membership, Local 150 had started antechnicians (2002), hourly pay ranged from organizing department in the late 1980’s. Inapproximately $12 to $20 and benefits were doing so, they not only

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Aaron T. Hill; Michael C. Campbell

roughly half the students or minimally by most of Review (Test) , PS – Problem Set (Homework), TEE – Term End Exam them. Fig 2. Course Director Assessment of Course Objectives Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference The University of Texas at Austin April 4-6, 20184. Summary and Way Forward [5] Hamilton, S., & Brunell, L., & Tamm, G., & Arnas, O., Cooperative learning techniques are designed to Peer Review In Engineering Courses As A

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Vijaya Gopu; Ayman Okeil; Roger Seals

: 13:978-0-7844-0965-7.Florida; and Carin Roberts-Wollman- Virginia Tech. The [3] Lang, J.D., Cruse, S., McVey, F.D., McMasters, J.contributions and support of the members of the Project (1999) Industry Expectations of New Engineers: A SurveyAdvisory Panel; the External Evaluator; LSU graduate to Assist Curriculum Designers. J. Eng. Ed., Vol. 88, No. 1,research assistant- Ahmed Elshoura; LSU undergraduate pp. 43-51.student assistants- Logan Miller, Alyssa Hermesch, and [4] Anderson, L. W., & Krathwohl, D. R. (Eds.). (2001). AAbigail Inabet; and website developer Emily Wolfe of Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching and Assessing: ALTRC are also sincerely appreciated. Any

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Hung-da Wan; Nihar Gupta

,” International Journal of Lean Six Sigma, 5(1), 45-61 (2014). Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference The University of Texas at Austin April 4-6, 2018[3] Doolen, T.L. and Choomlucksana, J., “Using [7] Mirehei, S. M., Kuriger, G., Wan, H., and Chen, F.F.,Collaborative-Learning Activities to Introduce Lean “Enhancing Lean Training for the Office EnvironmentPrinciples and Methods in the Higher Education through Simulation and Gaming,” International Journal ofClassroom,” Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Learning and

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Margo Cousins; Daniel Puperi

factors in online collaboration and their relationship tosomething—not necessarily their actual ability. [5] The teamwork satisfaction. The Quarterly Review oftiming of this survey employment at the end of the fall Distance Education, 10(2). pp195-206. Information Agesemester is a very stressful time for first year engineering Publishing, Inc.students, and they may have a very low overall self- [3] Anderson, C. B., Lee, H. Y., Byars-Winston, A.,efficacy. Baldwin, C. D., Cameron, C., and Chang, S. (2016). Assessment of Scientific Communication Self-efficacy,4. Future Work

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

undergraduate education asproduct and systems development through sponsorship of well as other industry segments such as oil & gas.Capstone project(s). Although the specific industry 2.2 Schneider Electric Building Simulatorsegment can vary widely, a number of recent partnerships Another example of a sponsored Capstone projecthave been formed to pursue opportunities in the area of was the HVAC Building simulator funded by Schneiderspace-based products and systems. Electric. Schneider Electric is a company that specializes in Small companies such a Texas Space Technology building automation and control products and services. TheApplications and Research (T