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Aaron T. Hill; Michael C. Campbell

Student Mastery of Engineering with Design Review LTC Aaron T. Hill, PhD, PE, PMP CPT Michael C. Campbell, PE United States Military Academy at West Point/Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering Civil Engineering Division 752 Thayer Road, West Point, NY, 10996, USA E-mails: aaron.hill@usma.edu, michael.campbell@usma.edu Abstract With respect to Engineering Teaching and Learning, Traditional structural engineering pedagogy has Design Review provides the essential cooperative learningconsisted

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Noe Vargas Hernandez; Arturo Fuentes; Stephen Crown

context of self-innovation student skills. In Flexibility, Adaptability, Open Mind, Agilityan initial survey of innovation and entrepreneurship skills Courage, Braverythe first thing one can notice is that most of these skills are Assertiveness, Competitiveness“soft” skills (also known as personal or general skills). This Personal Image, Positive Imageprecisely matches the category of skills needed for student Knowledge of Social Mediaself-transformation. This doesn’t mean that the technical Work Independentlyskills aren’t important, especially in the case of engineering Self-Disciplinestudents, but these are addressed daily by teachers in the Efficient, Goal Orientedclassroom. What are left out are the non

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Oziel Rios; Dani Fadda P.E.

A Conceptual Mechanism Design Activity for an Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Course Oziel Rios, Ph.D. and Dani Fadda, Ph.D., P.E. Mechanical Engineering Department The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science (The Jonsson School) The University of Texas at Dallas 800 W. Campbell Rd., Richardson, TX, 75080, USA E-mail: oziel.rios@utdallas.edu Abstract The design and operation of motion and power A conceptual design activity is presented in this paper transmission systems is an important

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John R. Clegg; Kenneth R. Diller

professional decision-making is likely the case Modules in Bioengineering. Journal of Engineeringfor all engineering students, but especially pronounced in this Education 98, 335-348, doi:10.1002/j.2168-case, due to the diversity of career paths typically pursued by 9830.2009.tb01031.x (2009).BME students. The timing of this immersive Cambridge 2 Council, N. R. How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school: Expanded edition. (National Academies Press,experience and the community built within seemed to occur in 2000).optimal timing for many students who were struggling with

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Kenneth Van Treuren

operate. In pressure ratio, FPR, and the bypass ratio, ALPHA. Theconclusion, the active learning modules and the designproject were effective in challenging and exciting thestudents about the design of gas turbine engines. Thecompany context for teams prepares students for what theymight encounter in industry.1. Introduction Since 2007 Baylor University has been involved withthe Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN).KEEN is “a national partnership of universities with theshared mission to graduate engineers with anentrepreneurial mindset so they can create personal,economic, and societal value through a lifetime ofmeaningful work.” [1] This is accomplished byincorporating entrepreneurially minded learning into the

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

and abstract representation” [7]. It is with this inThe purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of mind that the New Mexico Pre-Freshman Engineeringan intensive, two-week project-based engineering program Program (NM PREP) was molded into a project-basedfor high school students on self-efficacy and engineering learning environment where students spend their timeidentity in the participants. Results from this year’s survey going back and forth between abstract ideas on a board andsuggest that participating in the program increased high hands-on activities in an effort to build on the engineeringschool students’ perceived and actual knowledge of the fundamentals that could assist them in pursuing

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Chaoyi Wang; Michael Frye; Sreerenjini Nair

The Practices of Play and Informal Learning in the miniGEMS STEAM Camp Chaoyi Wang, Dr. Michael Frye, Dr. Sreerenjini Nair Autonomous Vehicle Systems Laboratory, University of the Incarnate Word 4301 Broadway Street, San Antonio, Texas, 78209, the United States E-mail: chwang2@student.uiwtx.edu Abstract on providing learning and research opportunities for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics underrepresented communities.(STEM) play an important role in the educational reform miniGEMS has developed very fast in the past threeand global economy. However, STEM

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Raj Desai

Projects for Pallet Recycling in a Solid Modeling Course Raj Desai Midwestern State University, McCoy School of Engineering 3410 Taft Blvd., Wichita Falls, Texas, 76308, USA E-mail: raj.desai@mwsu.edu Abstract 2. Innovation The main objective of the projects in our solid modeling Project based learning is a good way to introducecourse was to find innovative ways of recycling pallets. innovation in a solid modeling course. Innovation can bePallets are the single largest consumer of hardwood lumber

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Michael R. Gardner; Nina K. Telang

A Second Language Acquisition Toolkit for Teaching Introduction to Computing Michael R. Gardner, Nina K. Telang Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin 301 E Dean Keeton St, Austin, TX, 78712, USA E-mail: mgardner@utexas.edu, telang@ece.utexas.edu AbstractIntroduction to Computing and higher-level programming 2. Language and Computing Analogscourses are common first-year engineering curricula at the 2.1 Language Skillsuniversity level and are key in developing logical thought In

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

Space-Based Capstone: Public-Private-Academic Partnership in the Making Colby Ryan, Alexis Crandall, Mitch Martinez, David Kennedy, Kristian Ecolango, Dr. Jay Porter, Dr. Joseph Morgan Texas A&M University – Electronic Systems Engineering Technology Fermier Hall Room 111, 3367 TAMU, College Station, TX, 77843-6667, US E-mail: ryan1440@tamu.edu Abstract 1. Introduction The Electronic Systems Engineering Technology 1.1 ESET Program(ESET) Program at Texas A&M University provides a Since 2013, the