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Rafic Bachnak, Penn State Harrisburg; Anilchandra Attaluri, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College; Ma'moun Abu-Ayyad

. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Promoting Multidisciplinary Industry-Sponsored Capstone ProjectsAbstract:Engineering design problems are intricate in nature and require not only skills that involveinterdisciplinary education but also knowledge across disciplines. To promote and encouragemultidisciplinary projects, the School of Science, Engineering, and Technology at Penn StateHarrisburg has developed a model that facilitates the formation of teams to work on industry-sponsored capstone projects. These projects offer students invaluable educational benefits andhelp in preparing them for their future careers. This paper provides details about our approach toseek industry-sponsored projects and the process we follow to

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Claire VerHulst, Johns Hopkins University; Karen Borgsmiller, The Johns Hopkins University

hands-on construction to address a problem that hasmultiple valid solutions. It can be a struggle to emulate this environment in the classroom,especially when students have only rudimentary knowledge of engineering subjects. Onepotential vehicle to introduce students to realistic engineering challenges is a survey course forpre-college or first-year students. In this paper we discuss a pre-college engineering surveycourse with particular emphasis on its spaghetti bridge competition, a project that introducesstudents to materials science, statics, error analysis, simulation, engineering design, and givesthem experience working on a team.Every year hundreds of students devote 20 days of their summer break to learn more aboutengineering. They

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Oludayo Samuel Alamu, Morgan State University; Marc J Louise Orque Caballes; Guangming Chen, Morgan State University; Xuejun Qian, Morgan State Univeristy; Jingwen Xue, Morgan State University; Yulai Yang, Morgan State University; Margaret Ajuwon; Seong Lee, Morgan State University; raghulkumar chandrasekaran, Morgan State University

resources, ergonomics, regression modeling, additive manufacturing, and building energy systems. He has been actively involved in development of new research proposal and completed a number of project successfully. Dr. Qian has also served as student mentor, conference judge and industry consultant to understand and develop new technologies.Ms. Jingwen Xue, Morgan State University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Paper ID #32000 Ms. Jingwen Xue received her Master of Engineering from Morgan State University in 2016 and her Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering in 2012. She worked as

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Dimitrios Bolkas, Pennsylvania State University, Lehman; Jeffrey Daniel Chiampi II, The Pennsylvania State University; Jason Robert Kepner, The Pennsylvania State University ; Luke Jacob Kepner; David Neilson

projected to the classroom allowing students to follow the stepscompleted by the instructor. Laboratory instruction becomes more complicated and morechallenging when the labs are conducted in an outdoor setting. Students often have to work ingroups, often in different locations. This introduces the following important challenges: (i)students need to understand the tasks they have to complete before going outside and (ii) studentquestions cannot be answered promptly because of the distance between groups. Both challengeslead to students making mistakes, having to complete steps or entire labs again, and experiencingdelays in lab completion. This leads to student frustration and an overall negative lab experience.The advent of head mounted displays

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Susan Mitchell, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Katharine Cole, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Anupam Joshi, UMBC

meet theirneeds. To date, we have piloted the first two of the minor’s approximately six courses. The firstis a variation on the existing Computer Science I course required for majors but restricted to non-majors. Both versions of the course use the Python language and cover the same programmingcontent, but with the non-majors assigned projects with relevance to non-CS disciplines. We usethe same student assessment measures of homework, projects, and examinations for bothcourses. After four semesters, results show that non-CS majors perform comparably to majors.Students also express increased interest in computing and satisfaction with being part of a non-CS major cohort.The second course was piloted in fall 2019. It is a new course intended

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Janet Liou-Mark, New York City College of Technology; Reggie Blake, New York City College of Technology; Reina Li

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Center for Earth System Sciencesand Remote Sensing Technologies (CESSRST), the NSF REU program has attracted first-generation college students and underrepresented minority STEM students from the twenty-threecolleges within the City University of New York system. The students are trained through severalmini courses for the first three weeks out of a nine-week summer research program. The coursescover topics on MATLAB, Geographic Information System Mapping, Basic Statistics, andRemote Sensing, and they provide the necessary background for research projects related tosatellite and ground-based remote sensing of the hydrosphere, the lithosphere, the biosphere, theatmosphere, and the cryosphere

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Harold R Underwood, Messiah College

Paper ID #31998Circuits for a Multidisciplinary Engineering Student MixDr. Harold R Underwood, Messiah College Dr. Underwood received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign (UIUC) in 1989, and has been a faculty member of the engineering Department at Messiah College since 1992. Besides teaching Circuits, Analog Electronics, Electromagnetics, and Communica- tions Systems, he supervises engineering students in the Communications Technology Group on credited work in the Integrated Projects Curriculum (IPC) of the Engineering Department, and those who volun- teer via the

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Abigail R Brown; Barbara Cerefin, Rowan University; Lauren Gallo, Rowan University; Sarah Ramsey, Rowan University; Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University

involved inManagement - extracurriculars, jobs, workload, numerous activities and sports while alsoBalance and living situation. challenging myself with difficult courses like(TMB) AP World History and AP Chemistry.”Learning Styles Mentioned topic of learning “In school, I've always thought of myself as a(Learning) style, such as visual, project, visual learner and I also felt as if I learned well hands-on, auditory, etc. from hands on work too.”Study Habits Discussion of study habits, lack “Because my courses are paced much faster(Study) thereof, or need to change, than high school courses, I