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Cynthia C. Fry; Steven P. Potter

University’s School of Engineering and Computerindependent of each other in the recent past. In the past year, Science,” two existing courses in embedded systems, eachhowever, this is beginning to change, with plans developing to taught from differing perspectives, have joined to integratecombine the project portion of the two courses into one multi- software and hardware design and implementation in theirdisciplinary group project. group projects. This paper will discuss the existing courses

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Maura Borrego; Anita Patrick; Luis Martins; Meagan Kendall

April 4-6, 2018This work intends to build and further refine the study of American Society for Engineering Education Annualengineering identity in undergraduates as well as those in Conference, New Orleans, LA2016 pp. Pagesdifferent places in the engineering pathway such as high 6 Meyers, K.L., Ohland, M.W., Pawley, A.L.,school and graduate students. In future work we plan to use Silliman, S.E., and Smith, K.A.: ‘Factors relating tothis scale to investigate student attitudes across the engineering identity’, Global Journal of Engineeringengineering trajectory, and between groups that have been Education, 2012, 14, (1), pp. 119-131traditionally underrepresented in engineering

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

different approaches, the students found theapplied three methods to acquire the values of stresses and advantages and disadvantages of each method, anddeflections of members in the given truss bridge. First, they understood the reason why the results show reasonablycalculated the stresses and deformations theoretically. acceptable differences.Second, they actually conducted an experiment of the trussbridge with electronic measuring equipment. Lastly, they 2. Planning an Integrated Projectbuilt two simulation models with Autodesk Inventor and There are many ways of approaching design educationDassault Systèmes SolidWorks. From the comparisons of that appear to offer both systematic

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David Ewing

The University of Texas at Austin April 4-6, 2018assistants also conduct free tutoring sessions in the one credit course. In its original planning, the goal was toevenings where they help the students by guiding them increase engineering student retention by ensuring thatthrough the problem-solving process. This addition aids in engineering students were better prepared for theirincreased coverage of differing student schedules as well as subsequent engineering courses. The second yearalleviating over-taxed office hours. engineering retention data best illustrates this goal. As can Most importantly, the SCALE-Up methodology focuses

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Dani Fadda P.E.; Oziel Rios

them tools to use in while pursuing their Bachelors of presented. Finally, the student perception of the activity isScience degree in mechanical engineering. captured by a survey and provided. The activity is designed to challenge students inlearning heat transfer concepts. However, its rigor is planned forstudents (at the freshman level) who have not yet taken the 2. Goalsprerequisites required for heat transfer. The goal is for students to learn, at the freshman level, The activity is scalable and can be easily deployed in

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Christine Julien

studentspitfalls more than once. Building on the testing design in the learn from their challenges and failures.previous phase, the students also write a testing plan, build atest suite, and ensure that their project passes the tests. 3.3 Post-Course Survey Finalizing. Finally, with the project completed, the students For the first offering of the course, the students did a post-write their own tutorial, in the format of the tutorials used course survey using a generic course feedback form, whichthroughout the course. The goal of this tutorial is, on one hand, asks questions about the students’ satisfaction with the courseto document what the students did for

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Myles Sloan; Chung Hyun Goh; Fredericka Brown

their business plan. As in every profession,The gearbox consists of single forward drive and single there are things that are part of every engineering project orreverse drive manually shifted by the driver. The gear sizing task that is undertaken and are required for an exemplaryand tooth pitch was chosen to reduce the maximum total execution of said task, and the ability to rank priorities is onegearbox weight to below 75lbs [4]. This final design was of those things. Another is

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Kenneth Van Treuren

://www.defensenews.com/air/2017/02/06/us-air-force- Improvements to the course revolve around glides-toward-b-52-engine-replacement-plan/, accessed oncommunication issues. CATME is a valuable tool and it January 10, 2018.needs to be explained to the students so they understand the [5] Greco, L., 2017, “B-52 Re-engine Effort Could Start inpurpose of using this tool. The formal writing format for 2020,” FlightGlobal Online, November 30, 2017,the project was not given to the students until the final https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/b-52-re-engine-report, Design Project III. Students were not assigned a effort-could-start-in-2020-443791/, accessed on January 10,format for the first two phases and that made

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Thomas J. Dobrowski

targeted what wouldwhat could be expected from a professional be considered typical firms (those operatingorganization (typically 2 weeks paid heavy equipment), but also started on non-vacation, holidays, sick time, medical traditional areas such as mechanics,insurance, and 401k retirement plans). geotechnical drill rig operators, constructionTechnicians were (and still are) broken down field technicians, and landscapers. Thisinto two categories; soils/concrete and enabled the local to expand its membershipstructural steel. The soils/concrete from 10,000 members in 1986 to nearlytechnicians typically only had American 23,000 members today. The hourly rate for

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Aaron T. Hill; Michael C. Campbell

(3.5)objectives. Specific portions of assignments and exams plans in 2D and 3D. earned above a 70%.mapped to each of the five course objectives. Student Last year 86% earnedperformance was then compared to student performance above a 70%. Describe and predict Averaging togetherfrom the year prior (without Design Review).[6] The structural stability specific PS, WPR 2,assessment of student performance of course

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John R. Clegg; Kenneth R. Diller

. first author was also present, and participated in dialogues ranging from the class work to career plans, summer travel,Students find open-ended challenge problems engaging, generic complaints, current events, and the rain in England (ormotivating, and interesting. The real-world applicability and lack thereof). Students had the opportunity to discuss theirthe collaborative and creative nature of their solution also suits respective backgrounds, interests, goals, aspirations

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Hung-da Wan; Nihar Gupta

paper and a list of detailed design requires creative thinking, analysis of dynamics of instruction. The instructions are easy to follow, such the system (especially “before” and “after” contrasts), and as “draw an M at location (1)” and “draw a W at careful planning. It also requires experiences of game location (2).” With the standardized procedure, the facilitation and preparation. Ultimately, the simulation quality of work will be dramatically improved. The games should be effective in showing the concept, easy to results of most participants are expected to be similar implement, and enjoyable by participants. Hopefully the to the drawing in Figure 11

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Brian P. Bernard; Rui Cao; Maureen Russo RodrÕguez

. also by the administration in their campus infrastructure plan Facing decreasing enrollments in some foreign languages, if the engineering program were to grow.many liberal arts universities are reducing the number of Participating institutions often have different academiclanguages offered and variety of courses in remaining calendars, with their own start dates, exam periods, andlanguages. The TLC was started to provide additional breaks. Learning consortium class schedules are generally a Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference The University of Texas at Austin April 4