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Design in Biomedical Engineering (Works in Progress) - June 24th
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Christopher Arena, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Elham Morshedzadeh, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; John L. Robertson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Andre Albert Muelenaer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Brad D. Hendershot, DoD-VA Extremity Trauma and Amputation Center of Excellence, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center; Jessica L. O'Leary, Salem VA Medical Center; Aliza M. Lee, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Devasmita Choudhury; Brandon C. Briggs; Pamela Jean VandeVord, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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Biomedical Engineering
academic partnerships between BME and ID. In 2006, a formalcollaboration was established between biomedical, electrical, mechanical, and computerengineering students from Marquette University (MU) and ID students from the MilwaukeeInstitute of Art and Design (MIAD) [3]. Mid-way through their one-year, multidisciplinary,capstone course, MU engineering students recruit MIAD students to further develop and refineconcepts. The MIAD students receive course credit and function as design consultants. Overall,the collaboration resulted in improved prototype functionality and aesthetics, and the studentsdeveloped an appreciation for each other’s discipline and role within the project team. There wasalso a desire among the students to work together from the
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Laboratory Courses and Programming in the Aerospace Curriculum
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Adeel Khalid, Kennesaw State University
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Aerospace
excited, motivated and have therefore performed well in all classes.In the senior design course, students demonstrate their ability to apply the knowledge learned invarious AE courses towards a professional society sponsored aerospace design project. This seniordesign project is a three credit hour class and spans over one semester. Capstone projects are donein groups of three to four students. This capstone class is in addition to the senior capstone projectthat is required for their major degree. Students are able to finish the minor program by typicallytaking one extra class in every semester during their last two years on undergraduate degreeprogram. Some students take these classes over the summer and others have delayed theirgraduation by a
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Professional Issues and Opportunities for Engineering Librarians
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Michael Fosmire, Purdue University, West Lafayette
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Engineering Libraries
course.In all but one case, the data extracted for ABET assessment (i.e., the data included in the self-study to demonstrate student achievement) came from the senior capstone design experience.The capstone rubrics, however, varied considerably in the information component required, withmost rubrics not mentioning sources or references explicitly. All institutions reported studentperformance directly, but two also indicated student surveys (i.e., self-assessments) as sources ofdata for this outcome (they were transitioning out of that assessment method). Studentperformance was measured by course instructors, project partners, and, in one case, theinstitution’s industrial advisory board.As an example of an ambiguous rubric used for ABET assessment
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Computers in Education Division Technical Session 1: Topics Related to Engineering - Part 1
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Caeley Ashtyn Joy Gibbs, Queen's University
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Computers in Education
Reality Processing Plant for Chemical Engineering Process DesignAbstractThis work-in-progress study will explore technology aided education in the form of a VirtualReality (VR) application used to support learning outcomes in a chemical engineering capstonecourse. VR has the ability to immerse users in a simulated environment and provide them withexperiential learning opportunities. Most undergraduate chemical engineering students arerequired to design a chemical plant for their capstone design project without ever having visitedor interacted with a full-scale processing plant and could benefit from the immersive experiencethat the VR tool would offer. This study will be conducted over a two-year period fromSeptember 2019 to May 2021
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Instrumentation Division Technical Session 2
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Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho, Moscow
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Diversity
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Instrumentation
the University of Idaho College of Engineering,” InternalUniversity of Idaho Publication, 1985, 2012.[2] James Peterson and Herbert Hess, “Feasibility, Design, and Construction of a SmallHydroelectric Power Generation Station as a Student Design Project,” ASEE 1999 AnnualConference.[3] Herbert Hess and Justin Schlee, “Upgrade of a Successful Undergrduate Energy Project ina Remote Wilderness Location,” ASEE 2010 Annual Conference, AC 2010-2347.[4] Herbert Hess, Lance Funke, and Chris Hoene, “Undergraduate Students PerformSuccessful Cogeneration Study for University,” ASEE 2019 Annual Conference, Paper #26096.[5] Ankit Gupta, “Capstone Design by Year,” University of Idaho Department of MechanicalEngineering, May 2019, [Online] https
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Innovating Ethics Curriculum and Instruction
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Elizabeth A. Debartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Wade L. Robison, Rochester Institute of Technology; Sarah Aileen Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Engineering Ethics
Paper ID #30487WIP: A One-Page Ethical Checklist for EngineersDr. Elizabeth A. DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) Elizabeth A. DeBartolo, PhD is the Director of the Multidisciplinary Senior Design Program at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where students from Biomedical, Computer, Electrical, Industrial, and Mechanical Engineering work together on multidisciplinary teams to complete their 2-semester design and build capstone projects. She received her graduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and has worked at RIT since 2000.Prof. Wade L. Robison, Rochester Institute of
Conference Session
Student Approaches to Problem Solving
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Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Amber Gallup, University of New Mexico; Sung "Pil" Kang, University of New Mexico
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Diversity
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Educational Research and Methods
removing low and cross loading items [1], we identified six latentdimensions covered by 18 items: individual consequentiality, shared consequentiality, learningas consequentiality, constrainedness, shared tentativeness / ill-structuredness, and individualtentativeness / ill-structuredness.Introduction and research purposeUndergraduate engineering programs have increasingly incorporated design projects, not just asfirst-year and capstone experiences, but in core courses as a spine [2-5]. However, there aremany decisions to make in developing a design project and for those who lack the resources thatare sometimes invested in capstone experiences, many limitations. For instance, design projectsmay include clients and specific context, or they may be
Conference Session
NSF Grantees: RED 1
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Uzoma M. Monye, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; Tobin N. Walton, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; Stephen B. Knisley PhD, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
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NSF Grantees Poster Session
=Somewhat Agree I have the capabilities to identify industry 6 6=Agree and social needs 7=Strongly Agree My capstone project is professional 4.7 quality I have the knowledge required to be a 5 professional engineer I have the skills to be a professional 5.4 engineer I can succeed as a professional engineer 5.2 Overall Mean Engineering Self- 5.44 Efficacy ScoreNote: N=5 Analysis of the themes that emerged from the focus group was used to complement thedescriptive information from the exit survey above. Regarding self-efficacy and understandingof the design process, the students described the importance of patience and the value
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Computers in Education Division Technical Session 3: Digital Learning Part I
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Byul Hur, Texas A&M University; Ana Elisa P. Goulart, Texas A&M University; Logan Porter, Texas A&M University; Nripendra Sarker, Texas A&M University; Mike Willey, Texas A&M University
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Computers in Education
decided to use an MSP432 MCU. Each course studiesabout different perspectives and different levels of the MSP432 MCU. In embedded system trackcourses, it has been organized to deliver effective education and consistent education over themultiple courses. After taking the courses in the embedded system integration track, studentstake Capstone project courses. Students can choose their own microprocessor/microcontrollermodel according to the project requirements. They may choose one of the SimpleLink MCUs,and they can reuse the code of what they have learned previously. In this paper, an embeddedsystem track that uses a common MSP432 MCU was presented and the assessment was shownand discussed. The positive feedback was demonstrated through the
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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 3
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John Bernhard Kleba, ITA - Aeronautics Technological Institute (Brazil); Cristiano Cordeiro Cruz, Aeronautics Technological Institute (Brazil)
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Diversity
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Community Engagement Division
- Engineering Innovation - Ideas for social enterprises created by the students; • Any year - Work Experience or internships with community-based organizations or social enterprises; • Year 3 or 4 - Engineering for a Humanitarian Context course as a dedicated elective subject; • Year 4 - Systems Engineering Project (1 semester) and Individual Research Project (2 semesters) - both involve service learning and external partners, the former with a group capstone project, the latter, with research to development or humanitarian contexts.Engineering for a Humanitarian Context (EfaHC). Although the student may participate in HEdriven activities in all years, just one elective course is specific to the subject of HE, the
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ENT Division Technical Session: EM Across the Curriculum II
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Andrea T. Kwaczala, Western New England University
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Diversity
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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation
Paper ID #30098Using the Entrepreneurial Mindset to Master Kinematics and Human BodyMotion in a Biomechanics CourseDr. Andrea T Kwaczala, Western New England University Andrea Kwaczala is an assistant professor at Western New England University in the biomedical engi- neering department. She teaches Biomechanics, Product Development and Innovation, Senior Capstone Design and Prosthetic and Orthotic Devices. She focuses on hands-on labs centered on student engage- ment and project-based learning. She works in affiliation with Shriners Hospitals for Children where her research focuses in the design of assistive technologies to
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Programmatic Integration of Liberal Education
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Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Kristen L. Sanford P.E., Lafayette College; Julia Nicodemus, Lafayette College; Benjamin Cohen, Lafayette College
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Diversity
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
has been honored for its community-Collegepartnership. Projects also often address matters of campus value. Recent work, for example,conducted research to support the College’s adoption of a Climate Action Plan aimed atachieving carbon neutrality by 2035. As a few examples, students in capstone seminars in 2017,2018, and 2019 assessed the capacity for campus buildings to hold solar panels, investigatedoptions for microgrids on certain quads on campus, and helped the Office of Sustainability assessthe economic implications of bringing biogenic fuels to the College’s power plant.The 114 students enrolled in Engineering and Society over the last five years have been 39%female, and 25% of those who chose to specify an ethnoracial identity
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Online and Professional Graduate Programs
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Bharani Nagarathnam, Texas A&M University
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Diversity
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Graduate Studies
: • Course Registration • All textbooks & course material delivery. • Video lectures, class notes. • Ability to complete all assignments, home works and exams. • Residency Week materials. • Capstone project materials presentation. • Technical support for eCampus or Blackboard Learn LMS courses • Tuition & fees billing checks and reminderseBooks Platform VitalSource was selected as the eBook platform based on the wide availability ofeducational books and their willingness to work with industry trade publications to get some ofthe books that the MID program was using on the eBook platform. Since 2015-16, all books areavailable in the VitalSource eBooks platform and delivered through their app – The
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ENT Division Technical Session: Entrepreneurship and IP
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Soohyun Yi, Texas Tech University; Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University, West Lafayette
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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation
to situations internal to the university. Managing industry expectations around capstone projects and undergraduate research is much more challenging, and I don’t believe we manage this consistently yet.”Some participants also reported some negative experiences they had when collaborating with oradvising undergraduate student on inventions. For example: “Undergraduates think the whole university is put here for them to use for their pleasure. While faculty have minimal say over IP issues in contracting, consulting, faculty-owned businesses, etc., people want to throw state resources at undergraduates to exploit the same facilities and resources that faculty are prohibited from exploiting for their gain.” “Faculty
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Best In DEED
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Eunhye Kim, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Carolina Vivas-Valencia, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Lindsey B. Payne, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Nan Kong, Purdue University at West Lafayette
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Diversity
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Design in Engineering Education
. Feel concerned or happy for another. Empathic Distress Self-oriented affective process. Experience distress as a result of feeling for another.MethodsSetting & ParticipantsThis study was conducted in a junior capstone design project course, a prerequisite to the seniorcapstone design course. This junior-level, team-based course provided students withopportunities to explore a design problem for innovation in the biomedical engineering field andpropose a prototypical design solution at the end of the semester (Spring 2019). Throughout theone-semester course project, each student team had two presentations. The first one was a reportof the project progress and an initial version of the problem
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Laboratory Learning in Biomedical Engineering (Works in Progress) - June 24th
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Scott Howard Seidman, University of Rochester
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Biomedical Engineering
need to learn embeddeddevelopment comes up repeatedly in the context of our capstone senior design experience, and hasresulted in the individual instruction of many students at our institution, over many years, often in theform of guided tutorials. While effective enough to support the capstone course, this approach does notexpose every student that wants to acquire this skill set with the opportunity to do so; such instruction islimited to those students that need to learn the skills to support a project. It also lacks the efficiency of aclassroom approach.Microcontroller skills can be acquired today without formal instruction. Students can learn much of thismaterial on their own through the “Maker Movement” [2], in which makers learn through
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Software Engineering Division Technical Session 2
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Bruce R. Maxim, University of Michigan, Dearborn; Gail Luera, University of Michigan, Dearborn
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Software Engineering Division
Paper ID #28768WIP: Teaching a Knowledge Engineering Course Using Active Learning,Gamification, and ScaffoldingDr. Bruce R. Maxim, University of Michigan, Dearborn Bruce R. Maxim has worked as a software engineer, project manager, professor, author, and consultant for more than thirty years. His research interests include software engineering, human computer interaction, game design, social media, artificial intelligence, and computer science education. Dr. Maxim is professor of computer and information science at the University of Michigan—Dearborn. He established the GAME Lab in the College of Engineering and Computer
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Chemical Engineering in the Junior and Senior Year
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Michael David Mau Barankin, Colorado School of Mines; Kevin J Cash, Colorado School of Mines
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Chemical Engineering
University of Applied Sciences in Groningen, where he taught both in Dutch and in English. During this time his primary teaching and course develop- ment responsibilities were wide-ranging, but included running the Unit Operations laboratory, introducing Aspen Plus software to the curriculum, and developing a course for a new M.S. program on Renewable Energy (EUREC). In conjunction with his teaching appointment, he supervised dozens of internships (a part of the curriculum at the Hanze), and a number of undergraduate research projects with the Energy Knowledge Center (EKC) as well as a master’s thesis. In 2016, Dr. Barankin returned to the US to teach at the Colorado School of Mines. His primary teaching and course
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Information Literacy in First-year Courses and Co-curricular Experiences
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Brianna B. Buljung, Colorado School of Mines; Leslie Light, Colorado School of Mines
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Engineering Libraries
Engineering, LATICE 2014, 2014, pp. 74–77.[6] G. W. Hislop and H. J. C. Ellis, “Using scaffolding to improve written communication of software engineering students,” in ITNG 2009 - 6th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations, 2009, pp. 707–712.[7] T. A. Eppes, I. Milanovic, and H. F. Sweitzer, “Strengthening capstone skills in STEM programs,” Innov. High. Educ., vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 3–10, Feb. 2012.[8] L. Bosman, “From Doing to Thinking: Developing the Entrepreneurial Mindset through Scaffold Assignments and Self-Regulated Learning Reflection,” Open Educ. Stud., vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 106–121, Oct. 2019.[9] T. Morgan, “Enabling Meaningful Reflection Within Project-Based-Learning in Engineering
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First-Year Programs: Design in the First Year
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Keyanoush Sadeghipour, Temple University; David Brookstein, Temple University; Shawn Fagan, Temple University; Cory Budischak, Temple University
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First-Year Programs
student aspiration conforms to oneof the basic tenets of “design thinking” in that it is a methodology that imbues the full spectrumof innovation with a human-centered design ethos.At our university we have started to infuse the concepts of design thinking in our initialIntroduction to Engineering course and then later in our capstone senior design project courses.Between those “course bookends” we are working with our faculty to introduce to them thedesign thinking concept of “identifying the need” in place of only teaching “transactional”engineering concepts and theories and how to solve engineering problems.This paper will illustrate how we have introduced design thinking in our first-year introduction toengineering course and then conducted
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ECCD Technical Session 4: Energy and Analysis
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Hayrettin B. Karayaka, Western Carolina University; Chip W. Ferguson, Western Carolina University; Amber C. Thompson, Western Carolina University
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Energy Conversion and Conservation
will be placed on professional, ethical, global, environmental, and contemporary issues. Contact Hours: 2 Lecture, 2 Lab. ENGR 400 - Engineering Capstone I - Senior engineering project selection, planning, and development. Emphasis will be placed on defining project requirements, developing project work breakdown structure, conceptual designs, and working prototypes. Contact Hours: 1 Lecture, 4 Lab. ENGR 450 - Engineering Capstone II - Senior engineering project design, development, fabrication, and testing. Emphasis will be placed on iterative design processes, project management and execution, fabrication and testing. Contact Hours: 1 Lecture, 4 Lab.The PBL sequence of courses provided the
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Curricular Advancements in ECE
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Douglas W. Jacobson, Iowa State University; Julie Ann Rursch, Iowa State University
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Electrical and Computer
. Each senior design team is advised by an assigned faculty member who mayalso be the client. The cyber security engineering students are placed on projects that require theanalysis, design, and evaluation of cyber security systems, including system integration andimplementation.The senior (capstone) design experience occurs during the student’s last year in the program viathe two-semester sequence of courses EE/Cpr E/SE 491: Senior Design Project I andProfessionalism and EE/Cpr E/SE 492: Senior Design Project II. The two senior design coursesheavily emphasize design under constraints, problem solving, technical writing, oralpresentations, project planning, economic analysis, professional issues, and contemporary issues.Typical capstone projects
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ECCD Technical Session 5: Energy and Wind and Design
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Michael F. MacCarthy, Mercer University; Michelle E. Graham, Mercer University; Gabriel Xavier Ramirez, Mercer University; Alviez Aziz Chagan, Mercer University; Kyla T. Semmendinger, Cornell University
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Energy Conversion and Conservation
implementation of the project, and a social marketing framework is used in the design ofa project messaging implementation plan.A low-cost "Solar Self-Supply" starter solar PV kit was designed, constructed, and tested as part of asenior capstone engineering class. This affordable, expandable system encourages local households totake advantage of recent drops in prices in Solar PV panels, as well as partial federal subsidies for theentire cost of solar household systems. The system is designed to be connected to the utility power grid.System design, construction, and testing results are discussed, as are project implementation strategies.Geothermal heat pump (GHP) systems make use of the near-constant temperature of the Earth’ssubsurface to help control
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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 2
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Saeed Al-Haj, Ohio Northern University
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Computing and Information Technology
are familiar withthe kit components.Students in the introductory computer security course performed better on tasks that have cleardeliverables and expectations. In open-ended design projects, students need more guidelines tohelp them move from one stage to another stage in the project. Senior students in advanced securitycourse performed better in open-ended design project. This is expected because they have moreknowledge about the design process and they are working on their capstone projects.Students’ Projects:The kit was used in two courses over several semesters, 26 students submitted the project. In onesemester, students were asked to form teams and work on ONE given idea; implementing an IoTsurveillance system for smart homes. The goal
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Chemical Engineering in K-12 and the First Year
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Anthony Butterfield, University of Utah
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Diversity
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Chemical Engineering
several mid-curriculum projects have moved into this space, along with multiple senior capstone projects,bringing about inter-cohort interactions and developing a social hub for the department, as wellas facilitating course activities.In this work, we report on the detailed design of this learning environment, and the lessonslearned in the creation of such a multi-use space, specifically for the needs of chemicalengineering students and curriculum. We report on how the transition of our first-year designcourse to this new layout appears to have impacted multiple metrics: student trainings andlaboratory skill acquisition, student course performance, team evaluations, course and instructorevaluations, and more. Finally, because the space combines a
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Design in K-12 Education
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James S. Mokri P.E., San Jose State University; Nicole Okamoto, San Jose State University; Sorin Ion Neagu, Independence High School
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Diversity
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Design in Engineering Education
goal, it is difficult to quantify its efficacy byitself. Unfortunately, we do not have data showing the rates of students who go on forfurther education for students involved in this program compared to the broader group ofstudents in CTE.The following positive anecdotal experience is offered from one IHS student. David had alove affair with cars, so when he enrolled at IHS on San Jose’s East Side, he went directlyto the highly- regarded automotive technology class. In addition to learning aboutmechanical and electrical components in cars, David participated in a near-peer mentoringprogram where students from his class worked with SJSU Mechanical Engineeringstudents completing their senior design capstone projects. David was inspired. He
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Understanding Student Behavior and Experiences
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Jeannine E. Turner, Florida State University; Min Tang; Shayne Kelly McConomy, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Mostafa Papi; Jerris Hooker, Florida A&M University/Florida State University
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Educational Research and Methods
) to explore the best pedagogical practices to improve the efficiency integrating classroom project-based learning and students’ real-world problem-solving practice. I have MS degree from Florida State University in Curriculum and Instruction and BA degree from China Nanchang University in English. I speak English, Chinese, and some Japanese. I am a proactive person. If you are interested in my research topic, please feel free to contact me via email: mt14n@my.fsu.eduMr. Shayne Kelly McConomy, Florida A&M University/Florida State University Shayne K. McConomy is the Capstone Design Coordinator in the Department of Mechanical Engineer- ing at FAMU-FSU College of Engineering; He holds a PhD in Automotive
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Flight and Control Simulators for Virtual Learning
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Dominic M. Halsmer P.E., Oral Roberts University
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Aerospace
undergraduate engineering students(with mechanical and electrical concentrations) at Oral Roberts University began an ambitiousproject to develop the prototype of a Stewart-platform-based single-seat virtual reality aircraftflight simulator to assist in custom aircraft design and promote the excitement of an engineeringcareer among pre-college students in the local area. With the support of an intramural grantthrough the President’s Research Fund from Oral Roberts University, the students’ effortscontinued over the 2017-2018 academic year in the form of a successful senior capstone researchand design project, which is required for students majoring in engineering from this university.By the spring of 2018, the prototype was able to simulate the motion
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Team Facilitation and Effectiveness
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Benjamin Emery Mertz, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Ashley Bernal, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Patrick Cunningham, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Shraddha Sangelkar, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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Educational Research and Methods
: Challenges with Teaming Instruction and Managing DysfunctionIntroductionThis is a Work-in-Progress paper. Teaming continues to be an important dimension ofengineering work and by extension a required outcome of engineering education. Despite theemphasis and importance ABET places on teaming and the efforts of institutions to meet theserequirements [1], students may or may not develop effective team behaviors as a result of thevarious team experiences they have in an engineering curriculum. Researchers have noted thatthese skills have traditionally been considered “outside of the curriculum” and the instruction ofthese skills has been primarily relegated to cornerstone and capstone design courses. Even inthese courses
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Chemical Engineering in the Junior and Senior Year
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Richard Turton P.E., West Virginia University; Fernando V. Lima, West Virginia University; Brent A. Bishop, West Virginia University
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Chemical Engineering
process simulators and othercomputational tools.Today expectations for the capstone design project are much higher than they were 20 years ago.Such expectations include multiple case studies, sophisticated optimizations including processeconomics, and life-cycle and safety analyses. However, very few chemical engineeringgraduates work for design and construction companies and those employed in the processindustry will more likely work in an operating facility. The senior capstone design projectprovides students an opportunity to bring different concepts taught throughout the curriculuminto the design of a chemical process. The question is: how well does a rigorous chemicalengineering undergraduate curriculum and the associated capstone design