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Wei Zhan

2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference WEAVEonline: An Assessment and Planning Management System for Improving Student Learning Wei Zhan and Jay Porter Department of Engineering Technology & Industrial Distribution, Texas A&M UniversityAbstractEvery degree-granting program at Texas A&M University is required to participate in theassessment of student learning outcomes using WEAVEonline system. The assessment data isthen used to identify improvement opportunities.WEAVEonline is a management system for program assessment and planning. Specific studentlearning outcomes are identified or revised at the beginning of each

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Raj Desai

2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference Teaching Innovation to Freshmen Engineering Students Raj Desai Midwestern State University, TexasAbstractCompanies profit and grow through the development of innovative products and designs. Thus, industriesinvest substantial parts of their profits into research and development, seeking the most innovative ideas andemployees to find those ideas. Employees are motivated to be creative, especially when the potential forrecognition exists. Engineers are often the leaders of product development teams. For product developmentin industry, a structured plan may be

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Ilse Nava-Medina; Angie Hill Price; Mathew Kuttolamadom

2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual ConferenceBesides completing the relevant equipment/safety training, one of the most important initial detailsinvolved planning and laying out a timeline of goals, tasks, contingency plans and deliverables. Thisguided exercise was crucial to lay out a work plan as well as to align expectations. The timelineinvolved most major steps of research including preliminary testing and data analyses, literaturereview, hypothesizing, prototyping, validating, etc. Guidance/advising was in the form of about anhour long face-to-face meeting each week; students were encouraged to set up additional meetingsor drop by the faculty office as needed, or call the faculty to the lab if needed. The students weregiven autonomy

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Sreedevi Ande P.E.

Agree Disagree I plan to expand my GEMS experience, by telling my 20% 80% 0% 0% high school peers about my camp experience. Because of my teammates and GEMS experience, my 30% 70% 0% 0% skills in writing, documentation, oral presentations have improved. My GEMS experiences did not provide more 10% 10% 50% 30% information that will help me in my career choice. Table 3 – A sample of Students’ responses to the open ended questions on GEMS 1. What did you like the best about GEMS? • The projects • Engineering camp day • I liked that it was hands on • That GEMS

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Pranav Bhounsule; Deborah Chaney; Lorena Claeys; Randall D. Manteufel

Excellence in the College ofEducation and Human Development. 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 ConferenceFigure 1: Undergraduate students working with elementary- and middle-school children.Fundamentals of Robotics (ME4773) is a senior-level technical elective offered in theDepartment of Mechanical Engineering at UTSA. In this class, students primarily learn aboutkinematics, dynamics, control, and planning of manipulators and mobile systems. Students arealso expected to do

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Heather Shipley

rules for Federal financial aid; and fill out anapplication that includes, but is not limited to, the following: name, contact information,classification, major, unofficial transcript (with GPA information), one faculty recommendationletter, and three essays written by the applicant addressing: how the SPURS scholarship willbenefit his/her academic career, why the applicant should be considered for this program, andwhat is his/her 5 year plan including academic studies and professional career.Applications are reviewed using a review matrix by a committee in the College of Engineering.Students who accept the SPURS scholarship, must graduate from their respective degreeprogram within 3 years from receiving the scholarship and will remain in the

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John Hansen; Chengzhu Yu

The Heroes Behind the Heroes of Apollo-11: Role of STEM John H. L. Hansen, Lakshmish Kaushik, Chengzhu Yu, Abhijeet Sangwan Center for Robust Speech Systems, Eric Jonsson School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA {john.hansen, abhijeet.sangwan, lakshmish.kaushik, chengzhu.yu}@utdallas.eduAbstractDuring Apollo-11 project, countless scientists, engineers, technicians worked behind the scenes to ensurethat both the solutions and the execution of the detailed flight plan was a success. It is our goal to create aninteractive application that allows users to explore NASA’s archive of Apollo missions. The application

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Alison Whittemore; Okan Caglayan

allow seating forpassengers in wheelchairs. A plan view and elevation view of the tour layout are shown inFigure 4.The proposed system design placed an emphasis on practicality and versatility. The grid systemdelivers both of these attributes and also provides the city with the ability to continue to buildupon its user-friendly design. 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 Figure 1. Modular deck Figure 2. Recessed deck

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Dani Fadda P.E.

results. Students also considered a common challenge wasdeveloping a plan on what exactly to do in order to complete each deliverable.Regarding additional suggestions and comments, one student wrote: “We should be encouraged towork on the project as we cover relevant materials.” Another student wrote: “It was a very goodlearning experience. I think other semester students should get to enjoy it too.” Another wrote: “Itwas useful to understand the concept of convection and radiation in heat transfer.” One studentwrote a comment that summarized it all. The student wrote: “Enjoyed it a lot!”ConclusionA numerical project was given to complement the undergraduate heat transfer lecture course. Theproject gave students an opportunity to examine the

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Scott Koziol; Christian Tulowiecki; John DiCecco; Jason Gaudette

Copyright © 2017, American Society for Engineering Education 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conferenceadding “Challenge” problems to the lab assignments. The authors plan to incorporate this sug-gestion into future labs to challenge the students who may already have microcontroller experi-ence and/or find the labs too easy. 1) Before this class, I had 3) The hands on lab projects experience with helped me to learn the lecture microcontrollers concepts 20 15 15

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Tony McClary; Germain Degardin; John Kulpa; Patricia Sullivan; Karen Trujillo

at Dallas Copyright © 2017, American Society for Engineering Education 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual ConferenceWith regards to the overall program experience, the majority of students perceived the NMSUPREP program as a positive experience. As a result, 96% of the students were willing torecommend the NMSU PREP program to a friend and 76% were interested in coming back nextyear.Another goal of the NMSU PREP program is to enhance students’ awareness about engineeringcareer opportunities and possibilities. Once again, the program showed potential in this regard,with 73% of the students interested in pursuing a career in STEM. In addition, 67% of thestudents planned to participate in STEM

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Diana Easton

the students between universities and across course offerings and enables thebasis for university accreditation compliance. 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 ConferenceFigure 2 Biodevelopment Academic ModelThe proposed academic program is intended to augment the technical engineering education andcan be integrated as part of a Regulatory Engineering Masters of Science degree plan, as atraditional engineering Master’s degree concentration, as a medical device

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Amir Karimi

engage in life-long learning need to acquire new knowledge, to choose appropriate learning strategies, and to apply this knowledge. SO (d) an ability to function on SO (7) an ability to function effectively as a multidisciplinary teams member or leader of a team that establishes goals, plans tasks, meets deadlines, and creates a collaborative and inclusive environment. SO (j) a knowledge of contemporary issues