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

Effective Student Outcomes Assessment Plan Reform Strong Undergraduate Curriculum Plan Talal D. Gamadi, Bethany Disque, Marshal Watson, and Lloyd Heinze Texas Tech University/ Bob L. Herd Department of Petroleum Engineering 807 Boston Avenue, Box 43111, Lubbock, Texas, 79409, USA E-mail: talal.gamadi@ttu.edu Abstract  $1 million in undergraduate core and rheology The undergraduate curriculum committee from the Bob laboratories, replacing all undergraduate labL. Herd Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas equipment.Tech University has made

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Charlotte Stockton; Talal D. Gamadi; H. Emadi

Effective Assessment Plan Leading to Strong Reform of Petroleum Engineering Graduate Program Charlotte Stockton, Talal D. Gamadi, and H. Emadi Texas Tech University/ Bob L. Herd Department of Petroleum Engineering 807 Boston Avenue, Box 43111, Lubbock, Texas, 79409, USA E-mail: talal.gamadi@ttu.edu Abstract design, analysis, and presentation of research projects The Bob L. Herd Department of Petroleum Engineering that are consistent with the focus of their program.at Texas Tech University has made a lot of significant  Scholarly

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Stephany Coffman-Wolph; Kimberlyn Gray; Marcia Pool

Work-in-Progress: Research Plan for Introducing Problem Solving Skills through Activities to an Introductory Computer Science Course Stephany Coffman-Wolph, Kimberlyn Gray, and Marcia Pool Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin 2317 Speedway, Austin, TX, 78712, USA E-mail: sscw@cs.utexas.edu Department of Chemical Engineering, West Virginia University Institute of Technology 512 S Kanawha St, Beckley, WV, 25801, USA E-mail: Kimberlyn.Gray@mail.wvu.edu Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at

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Gholam H. Massiha; Shelton L. Houston

-edge tools to develop solutions to complex systems are a driver toward increased economic development withinproblems in a diversity of industries. It is designed for the state. Further, UL Lafayette’s ability to offer thisindustrial and engineering technologists, and other degree program directly contributes to the accomplishmentprofessionals engaged in developing systems to meet of several of the institution’s objectives articulated in therequired specifications. 2009-2014 Strategic Plan related to (a) increasing the number of graduates in high-demand professions, (b)1. Introduction

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Okan Caglayan; Sreedevi Ande P.E.; Erik Coronado; Max Martinez; Samuel Handowski

presentations emphasized the following skills/attributes that students need in order to be successful in college and career:1. Introduction  Time management – class attendance, planning, Soon-to-be high school graduates from around the class assignmentsworld apply to the University of the Incarnate Word (UIW)  Networking and communication – soft skills,for their STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and

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Julia N. Savoy; Mia K. Markey; H. Grady Rylander III

outcomes,” Research inCFCs, which requires self-assessment, organization, Higher Education, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 451-476, 2006.reflection, and planning, all of which are prompted by the [8] Y. Sakurai, K. Pyhältö, and S. Lindblom-Ylänne,TPT and IDP processes. “Factors affecting international doctoral students' academic engagement, satisfaction with their studies, and dropping out,” International Journal for Researcher4. Summary Development, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 99-117, 2012. This study investigated the

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Joseph A. Donndelinger

demonstrate constant academic achievement and long-term comprehension. More curiosity about our changing world and specifically for the subject of Engineering Economics, explore a contrarian view of accepted emphasizing the relevance of the course material to topics in solutions personal finance (e.g. home ownership, life insurance, retirement planning) has been shown to improve students’ motivation to learn and comprehension of course content 9. Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE Gulf-Southwest

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Rochelle Williams; Sherri Frizell; Felecia Nave; Audie Thompson

G.A.L.S. camp for each applicant. 10ft and 30ft. The students learned that MechanicalThe following items were taken into consideration in Engineers use material composition, weight capacity andassessing perceived benefit: effects of impact when designing and making instruments, Students who identified factors that most influenced tools and vehicles. their future career plans that aligned with the Participants were exposed to bridge design during the objectives of the camp civil engineering project on day 2. This lesson focused on Students who had misconceptions about the role how bridges are engineered to

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Julio Alonso; Jesus Vargas; Daniel Li; Abraham Elizarraras; Tony Hoang; Khanh Vu; J. Patterson; Mohammad Palwala; Marco Maldonado; Masaki Isago; Mark Aranda; Lan Trinh; Tu Huynh; Tie Nguyen; Bao Ly; Jiao Huang; Heidar Malki; Xiaojing Yuan

active transportation planning of many regions. It has Bike sharing is a new green transportation solution that witnessed increased interest and traction around the worldhas been developed and adopted at various cities around the [12-17] including within the United States in the lastworld. In this paper, we present the process and results of decade because of a wide variety of dynamically changingthe design and prototypes that a group of undergraduate factors, from technology advances, to creating safer andstudents developed for a BikeShare@UH program during more sustainable transportation venues for upward mobilitySummer 2017. After presenting the detailed results of four opportunities and

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Jorge Leon; Angie Hill Price; Mathew Kuttolamadom

Developing a Graduate Master’s Degree Program in Engineering Technology: Overview of Program Objectives, Structure & Impact Jorge Leon, Angie Hill Price, Mathew Kuttolamadom Texas A&M University College Station, TX, 77843 E-mail: mathew@tamu.edu Abstract has developed a plan for a MSET degree. During the A study was conducted to outline the state of graduate development phase, other programs around the country andmaster’s degree programs in engineering technology that especially in Texas were examined

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Heather S. Rose; Charles R. Upshaw; Joshua D. Rhodes; Yuval Edrey; Michael E. Webber

description of the student research and other projectsUniversity of Texas at Austin built by graduate and associated with the lab. This paper concludes with lessonsundergraduate students in the Cockrell School of learned so far and plans for the future.Engineering. The project was funded by the Texas StateEnergy Conservation Office and the University’s Green 2. MotivationFee Grant, a competitive grant program funded by UT The genesis of the SWEAT Lab started in 2012 whenAustin tuition fees to support sustainability-related projects graduate student Joshua Rhodes determined there was aand initiatives on campus. The SWEAT Lab is an on-going lack of publicly available solar insolation

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Matthew Alexander

instructor findsfundamentals of engineering (FE) exam, or plans to do so that challenging students with technical problems that theyin the future. The tally of results for this question is have not been exposed to in classroom lectures, and usingpresented in Figure 4 for the spring 2017 and summer 2017 coaching to guide students to a solution, improves studentcohorts of Design III. In the spring 2017 class, 18 of 30 realization of the need for life-long learning. Finally, thestudents indicated they planned to take the exam, while in instructor concludes that relating personal experiencesthe summer 2017 class, 11 of 14 students indicated the regarding PE licensure and writing assignments

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Hector A. Ochoa; Mukul V. Shirvaikar

teach this course.approach has a number of advantages due to the hands-onelement which provide the new student an opportunity to Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference The University of Texas at Austin April 4-6, 2018 Finally, every syllabus was analyzed looking for any patterns Degree Plan Placement regarding prerequisites, and curriculum placement. The data was broken down into universities that use a chip-based 20

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Sarah Seraj; June Young Park; Michael Pieratt

found nowhere else in thegroups and two engineering groups with competing world. Hence, Rainbow Town is a protected Naturalinterests. The voters were individual characters with varying Heritage site. Recently, there have been plans to construct acareers and objectives. The objective of the activity varied baseball stadium beside Rainbow Lake. The Orange Partybased on what role each student was playing. The and the Green Party, the political parties in town, are forpoliticians’ job was to further the objectives of their own and against the stadium construction respectively. Twoparty while simultaneously keeping their voter base happy. groups of engineers, one group from an investment

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

, C.L., Agogino, A.m., Eris, O., Frey, D.D., Leifer,design challenge and students’ self-efficacy are planned for L.J. “Engineering Design Thinking, Teaching, andthe next few years as a part of the NM PREP Academy Learning.” Journal of Engineering Education, 94(1), p.curriculum. Additional components that will be examined 103-120. (2005).in future programs will include data collection regarding [7] Brereton, M., The Role of Hardware in Learninggrit and mindset of the students and changes therein

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Randall D. Manteufel; Amir Karimi

instructors have lenientcourses. The failure rate is computed as the fraction of grading policies, hence higher student grades correlate withstudents who enroll in the class and then either withdraw higher teacher evaluations [6, 7]. The idea of measuring(W) or earn a D or F final grade. These students need to actual student learning in a course is not new, it is justretake the class in order to progress in the program. When expensive and elusive. The authors have looked atthe course failure rate exceeds 20%, then instructors are correlation of two semester thermodynamics course to seerequired to develop and submit plans to reduce the failure if one can identify instructor for the first course betterrate. The plans

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Matt Leonard; Joseph Morgan; Jeremy P. Coffelt

to perform several Alexis Crandall, both seniors, led the embedded softwareengineering tasks during the build process. The paper will and electronics development efforts, while Mr. Vincealso include the lessons learned from initial design through Rodriguez, now an applications engineer with Texasits transfer to the private sector for commercialization and Instruments, developed the Android and iPhone apps thatfuture plans. allow a user to control the robot via a Bluetooth or 802.11 wireless connection.1. Introduction (What is DSTR) DSTR was designed so that it

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

completely disregard the of forty lessons at fifty-five minutes apiece and constitutesdesigns and methods of previous teams, but the reliance on the integrative experience for students. During each classtheir decision-making process was more heavily scrutinized meeting, the team members are seated at a rectangularwith the current multidisciplinary team. Our research is not meeting table in the team’s advisor’s office. During thesolely limited to competitive performance. We also initial lessons, the team and advisor created a syllabus byanalyzed the decision-making process of this year’s team in backwards planning from the competition in April 2018.comparison to previous years. While data on decision

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Mia K. Markey; JoÜo Carlos Monteiro; Julie Stewart

Universidade do Porto.“International Perspectives on Biomedical EngineeringDesign” is to enable students to consider sociotechnical 2. Instructional Challengefactors in designing clinically translatable solutions. In In the course International Perspectives on Biomedicaladdition, comparison of healthcare systems in Europe and Engineering Design, students plan, conduct, and interpretthe United States enables students to see the impact of interviews with healthcare professionals from both Europeculture on healthcare because people in these locations and the United States (via videoconferencing). They planhave similar medical resources. Students seek to define an semi-structured interviews using techniques from human

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Margo Cousins; Daniel Puperi

303L in the fallsemester, and students who did not participate in FIG and 1.2 Communication measurementare enrolled in BME 303L in the spring semester. These Section 3 of the survey measured the students’ scientificdata will be used to optimize advising and curriculum for communication self-efficacy, which is related to ABETfirst year students and improve engineering outcomes for Student outcome g: an ability to communicate effectively.all students. Future surveys are planned for sophomore and This included 15 Likert-scale questions adapted from ajunior years as well. validated self-efficacy in scientific communication

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Timothy Urban; Margaret Baguio

summer internships to By leveraging the strengths of this partnership, SEES include classroom differentiation.is: • Provide opportunities for participants to understand and be a• Educating students by utilizing rigorous STEM part of NASA’s role in climate investigations and how these curriculum enhancement activities that meet national studies fit into the global picture. science, technology, engineering, and math standards 4.2 Project Plans and encompass the research and technology of NASA’s The primary focus of the internship is for the students to learn Earth Science mission

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Chaoyi Wang; Michael Frye; Sreerenjini Nair

competitions. In summer 2016, 26has been viewed as other approaches to increase students’ camp participants were representing different schoolinterests and improve study accesses to STEM fields in the districts of San Antonio with a special emphasis onUnited States. The addition of the arts in STAEM education recruiting from underrepresented communities. Fiveprovides more learning opportunities and real-world undergraduate research assistants from the AVS Lab andcontexts which meet more students’ interests. three middle school teachers from the local school districts miniGEMS 2017 was a free two-week summer STEAM helped with the prior planning and the entire managementand programming camp for middle

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Vijaya Gopu; Ayman Okeil; Roger Seals

course during any given semester, Finally, the content of the modules was rated good-verycooperation of the course instructor was needed. That good on average, which is acceptable but leaves room forcooperation entailed providing two class periods and time improvement. The authors are continuously improving thein another class for the briefing cited above. In addition, content of the modules as well as the quality of the deliveryprovision for the inclusion of a description of the planned of the modules to ensure better student engagement andeducational experience in the course syllabus as well as achievement level of learning outcomes.course credit for the experience extra credit or somepercent of the course

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Jafar F. Al-Sharab; Curtis Desselles; Robert Dalling; Mauricio Escobar; Ariell Shield; Hoa Nguyen; McKenzie Cutrer; Will Heitman

person and is related toSTEM makers club, which combines Northwestern State the change and growth of that person. However KolbUniversity (NSU) and The Louisiana School for Math, (1984) thinks that experiential learning is like a four-stageScience, and the Arts (LSMSA). The main objective of this process. The four-stages of experiential learning is:Makers Club is to make students excited about STEM and Concrete Experience (Doing), Reflection (Observing),to increase the number of students who are interested in Abstract Conceptualization (Thinking), and ActiveSTEM related careers. The newly founded club (NSU- Experiment (Planning). Some of the key principles ofLSMSA Makers Club) emphasizes

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Mena Souliman

transportation system solutions. exams in Fall 2016 with the hybrid style as compared to 4. Explain uniform traffic control devices including student performance in Fall 2014. The average grades of traffic signs, markings, signal, and warrants. the first midterm exam for the hybrid class and the 5. Analyze freeway and highway capacity including conventional face-to-face teaching style were 86 and 80.7, the unsignalized and signalized intersection respectively. In addition, the maximum grade was 97 for capacity, arterial planning and design, identify the hybrid class compared to 92 for the face-to-face operational problems and carry out traffic

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Michael R. Gardner; Nina K. Telang

Austin April 4-6, 2018own, with particular “grammatical structures” and “lexical approach, however, students should move beyond recognitioncontent.” to active use. This popular SLA lesson plan begins with Noticeably missing from this list of linguistic components restricted exposure, continues with a clarification stage andis phonology, how language is expressed verbally. In the concludes with authentic output[4]—proposed here withcontext of computing, verbal communication is a function Boolean operators.primarily of understanding and employing computing Students

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Nisha Abraham; Nina Telang

Engineering’s office of academic affairs.requirement for all SI leaders to plan their sessions withengaging activities that they submit for continual feedback Students attending zero or one session were categorizedand improvement. We believe these changes could have as the non-SI group, whereas repeat attendees (thosesignificantly impacted the attendance of the program and attending two or more sessions) were categorized as the SIthe subsequent student outcomes and would like to group. With this definition of the SI group as those whoinvestigate further areas for growth. returned, the quantitative data focuses on the outcomes for

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Stephany Coffman-Wolph; Kimberlyn Gray

bebags can be attached using a brightly colored ribbon or challenging with so many students. For in class hardcopyplaced in the rungs of a rope ladder laid onto the floor. To submission, the use of a predetermined seating plan and TAhave all students interact during the demo, use a response assignment would mean faster collection of papers. Thesystem (iClickers, quiz software, chat room, bulletin board, predetermined seating arrangement method would alsoor etc.) to quiz students about the demo. This will allow all work with random group assignment in class as studentsstudents within the room to participate with answers shown could simply list all team members on the assignment. Foranonymously

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

periodically collect and the NASA scientists have been awarded follow-on fundingconduct real-time analysis of these data will significantly to pursue the first of its kind Class 1-E Facility that isimprove the probability of successful fertilization. WTA intended to operate for over five years on the ISS [1].now plans on commercializing the prototype created by the This same type of partnership has also been usedCapstone team. The company also plans on extending its to support a number of Capstone projects. One of the mostrelationship with the ESET Program moving to a more visible of these was the design project conducted by Tpartnership-like arrangement that would include one to two STAR in

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

to both these questions show that they had 75-minute long lecture sessions.effective learning experience over the 75-minute duration. While we are encouraged by the positive responses shown and discussed in this paper, we realize our study can be strengthened by a larger data set from several semesters and from different instructors/courses. We are planning to pursue along that direction. We will also seek