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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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

. areas has on recruiting and retention. To this end, the Capstone is designed to prepare future engineers degree program has required course work in four areas:by bridging the gap between the classroom and industry. analog and digital electronics, wired and wirelessStudents are required to form teams of two to six members communications, embedded hardware and software, andwhich allows them to develop the skills necessary to system level design of monitoring and control applications.succeed in a diverse industry setting. Each team is required In addition, the curriculum is augmented through courses into use their knowledge and skills to design, develop, industry-applicable skills including project

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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

Integrated Educational Project of Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Analyses Hyun Seop Lee1,*, Y. D. Kim2, and Edwin Thomas3 1,3 Engineering Technology, Grambling State University 403 Main Street, Grambling, Louisiana, 71245, USA * E-mail: leehy@gram.edu 2 Engineering and Technology, Texas A&M University – Commerce P.O. Box 3011, Commerce, TX, 75429, USA Abstract ability to understand

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Matt Leonard; Joseph Morgan; Jeremy P. Coffelt

driver. board (and its C++-based programming language) with a TI Currently, the DSTR Robot is being used in STEM Nspire graphing calculator (and its Basic-basedworkshops, high school courses, college freshman programming language). Ultimately, the students wereengineering courses, a number of Capstone design projects, successful in meeting the challenge, while the DSTR wasand is also being considered for a lunar exploration mission. successful in demonstrating its versatility.DSTR is gaining recognition and interest across the state ofTexas and around the world. A DSTR workshop has beenoffered to engineering faculty in China and was the topic ofdiscussion during a recent

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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

members of the West Point Steel Bridge Team arefive undergraduate seniors working to design and build a enrolled in a fall and spring semester course designed tosteel bridge for the annual ASCE Steel Bridge Competition. provide them with an opportunity to apply and synthesizeThe purpose of our group’s research is to discover how their knowledge of structural engineering, constructionmultidisciplinary teams perform in academically management and engineering economics in an open-ended,competitive environments. This project provides a unique realistic, semester-long, capstone design experience. Theopportunity in the field of multidisciplinary collaborative remaining member, a junior, is only enrolled

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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

evaluation process by applying students, and strategies for course future improvement. the following: as shown in Figure 1, we mapped the Senior Capstone Project. Performance in the capstone courses relevant to each other and asked the faculty in each design courses, PETR4121 & PETR4222. map (loop) to cooperate with each other. The main Senior Exit Survey. This survey is given to students objective of these loops is to provide faculty with clearer during the last month before their graduation. These targets for developing standards-based curriculum, students complete a program evaluation survey instruction, and assessment. Thus, aiding in mapping the containing twenty

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Jorge Leon; Angie Hill Price; Mathew Kuttolamadom

expectedsuccessful in the MSET program. enrollment of the program; new students are expected toIndustry Partnerships: originate from undergraduate feeder programs at TAMUA concentrated effort will be taken to forge industry and from other engineering technology programs in thepartnerships where the companies sponsor their top talent state/nation. In particular, the interest from the currentfor the MSET program. Capstone projects will be designed undergraduate ET students in TAMU was very positive.to include industrial sponsors to bring value / innovation to Currently, the program is in the proposal stage, and ifthe company, add continuous ROI for students while

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

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

thethese programs. For example, motivation influences the limitations of learning context itself such that participantsdegree to which participants are engaged with activities as will be unable to complete designs if the expectations fordoes their background knowledge [4]. Additionally, the design exceed the constraints of their environment [4].program effectiveness is impacted by the limitations of the Recent research in engineering education has shown thatlearning context itself such that participants will be unable project-based learning classes can help to improveto complete designs if expectations for the design exceed motivation of students, increase students’ interest inthe constraints of their