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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference
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Scott Koziol; Christian Tulowiecki; John DiCecco; Jason Gaudette
 Little None too difficult just right too easy Figure 6: Anonymous mid-term survey data during the completion of Lab 5.Future Work:Our neuron board demonstrated that the complete PCB design and build cycle is capable at Bay-lor University. A future lab may teach the students part or all of this build cycle. Candidate de-sign projects include: building a PCB for the AVR microprocessor to replace the Xplained Mini,building a DAC PCB to replace our expensive DAC board, building their own neuron circuit per-haps with a DAC on-board the PCB. We would also like to integrate a low-cost portable oscillo-scope/logic analyzer into the laboratories. A candidate is the Analog Discovery 2 by Digilent5(Shown in the
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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference
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Steve Watkins
. Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference Organized by The University of Texas at Dallas Copyright © 2017, American Society for Engineering Education 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference Table 3. Ethics Case #1 Smith and Jones work in an experimental testing laboratory for Acme Corp. Smith has been the main testing engineer for five years and is up for promotion to laboratory supervisor (includes the testing laboratory and several other laboratories). Jones is being trained as a potential replacement as the testing engineer. The laboratories division supervisor is Brown who is retiring soon
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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference
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Tariq Khraishi
,even whole degrees, on-line. A lot of them offer graduate courses and programs online. Some,even at the high-school level, are offering online degrees.LaMeres and Plumb (2014) found out that converting undergraduate digital circuits to onlinedelivery is as effective as in-classroom offerings. They even found the same result for anundergraduate digital systems laboratory using a remote lab approach. Reid (2006) in theElectrical and Computer Engineering Technology Department at IUPUI studied the conversionof two courses (Digital Fundamentals and C++ programming) has gradually changed twocourses from a traditional lecture / laboratory format to an online format. They found that studentsuccess was comparable to success in a traditional format
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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference
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Magdalena Grohman; Eun Ah Lee; Nicholas Gans; Marco Tacca; Matthew Brown
ConferenceAbstractThe study aimed at investigating: the group dynamics underlying ethical decision-making inSenior Design Project (SDP) teams and research labs, and the role of ethics experts in the ethicaldecision-making. Using cognitive ethnography, we analyzed research activities in engineeringresearch laboratories, and SDP teams’ discussions about ethics issues, with or without thepresence of ethics experts. We found that student teams demonstrated multi-layeredunderstanding of engineering ethics: explicit and implicit. Those two types of understandingmanifested themselves differently across SDP teams. At the explicit level, SDP teams understoodtheir technical responsibility and practical work ethics, but at the same time rarely showedappreciation for
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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference
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Pranav Bhounsule; Deborah Chaney; Lorena Claeys; Randall D. Manteufel
going. Also, because of cancelled meetings, some students could not complete the 10hrs and/or 10 visits. But we evaluated these students on case by case basis, giving them full credit for this part of the rubric.Acknowledgements:The authors would like to thank Brian Halderman, Program Director, Center for CivicEngagement for all the logistics support; Christopher von Brecht, the teaching assistant for thecourse for helping with the laboratories. This research was supported by NSF grant 1566463 toPAB and US Dept. of Education grant to LC.References[1] US Department of Education,Hispanics and STEM education,http://www2.ed.gov/about/inits/list/hispanic-initiative/stem-factsheet.pdf[2] Passel, J.S. and Cohn D. US population
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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference
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Jun-Ing Ker
Solving I work in teams to fabricate a small centrifugal pump in a factory-likelaboratory setting. Presently, integration of INEN 401 and ENGR 120 class is nonexistent. Thispaper summarizes the development of an innovative way of teaching INEN 401, by verticallyintegrating it with ENGR 120, in a factory-like environment to enhance the overall efficiency ofthe pumps manufactured in ENGR 120 class. Tasks performed include identifying root causes,publishing new fabrication and assembly instructions, fabricating pumps based on newinstructions, testing the efficiency of new pumps, and comparing pump efficiency. Thepreliminary result shows that new pump fabrication instructions developed by INEN 401students resulted in better pump
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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference
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Ilse Nava-Medina; Angie Hill Price; Mathew Kuttolamadom
specifically, hypothesis-driven orfundamental research is generally not conducted or encouraged to a large extent as part the degree.Such a practice is not because engineering technology students do not have the aptitude forconducting research, but rather the constraints of coursework and the associated laboratory practicelargely prohibits it from a time/resource standpoint. Tackling a research problem as a high-impactlearning experience will be especially beneficial to engineering technology students since many ofthe solutions that they are tasked to seek out as part of their normal job responsibilities involve theactivities of inquiry, hypothesizing, reasoning, etc., in other words, essential components of research.This paper is an exploration of