Conference Session

Early Engineering Design Experiences

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelly Crittenden, Louisiana Tech University; David Hall, Louisiana Tech University; Mark Barker, Louisiana Tech University; Patricia Brackin, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Page 14.633.8Freshman Design Expo at the end of the quarter. This show is typically held in the student centerand is open to anyone interested in viewing the students’ work. Expos are held during eachquarter, with the largest Expo held during the Spring quarter. Approximately 35 teams showcasetheir designs during the Spring, 15 in the Fall, and 10 in the Winter. Teams of judges review thework and a variety of awards are distributed.Students are not required to turn in a formal report for this project but they are required to keep adesign journal. This assignment is designed to get the students familiar with the concept ofrecording their progress. Later in their college careers, many of these students will have multipleopportunities to work on

Conference Session

Assessing Design Course Work

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology; Edward Blicharz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Peter Dominick, Stevens Institute of Technology

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. Teams can be distributed geographically, often globally inlarger corporations.As a member of a team you typically do not choose who you will work with and this can makehandling interpersonal and cultural influences key factors in effective teamwork. Being able tosuccessfully deal with these factors is also critical to the ability to lead teams.In just a few years you will be working on teams as a professional and your performance will bejudged. Your success in this will have a direct influence on your career. Your success will oftenbe tied to your team’s success. It is therefore important that you try to hone your teamworkskills while in college.How will I develop my teamwork skills to help me be successful in my career?In previous Design Spine

Conference Session

Design Projects

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cesar Luongo, Florida A&M/Florida State University; Chiang Shih, Florida A&M/Florida State University

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capstone course we have limited the ability of the studentto choose projects and instead the instructor assigns the teams and forces students to work ingroup without the comfort level of picking teammates. The process is somewhat complicatedbecause certain constraints need to be observed: • Allow members of students chapters (e.g., SAE, ASME) to work on specific projects sponsored by such organizations • Allow students on the BS-MS (co-terminal) track to work on projects sponsored by certain industrial partners that also serve as hosts for summer internships • Consider the student’s career interest or objectives as much as possible (e.g., students going into a bioengineering program in graduate school, students

Conference Session

Professional Skills and Teaming in Design

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd W. Polk, University of Texas, Dallas; Margaret Garnett Smallwood, University of Texas, Dallas; Jeanne Sluder; Robert Hart P.E., University of Texas, Dallas; Joe Pacheco Jr., University of Texas, Dallas

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Diversity

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on multidisciplinaryteams are required to attend all training sessions with their teammates.Our engineering program utilizes team-based project learning in several course beginningfreshman year. In these courses, the engineering professors introduce the concepts of teamwork,collaboration and conflict resolution. These concepts are reinforced at several points throughoutengineering students’ academic career in other lab courses and even in some lecture courses, butthey are not the focus of those courses.So for capstone we decided to focus on professional skills almost exclusively during lecture, andbegan bringing in outside experts to lecture on different topics related to professional skills.While we brought in experts on project management

Conference Session

Design Across the Curriculum 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Michelle Maher, University of Missouri-Kansas City; Kathleen O'Shea, University of Missouri-Kansas City; Jacob M. Marszalek, University of Missouri-Kansas City; Darran Cairns, University of Missouri-Kansas City

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Diversity

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to inspire human-centeredinnovation, the lead instructor presented material on how to design and implement a survey, andteams created a brief survey; the brief survey presented in the Appendix is an example of a team-designed survey. As a team, team members also created an interview protocol to learn about eachother. Each student interviewed at least one other team member and reflected on how theinterview had unfolded. Typical interview questions included, “What brought you to thisuniversity?”; “What activities are you involved in on and off campus?”; “What do you plan tomajor in and why?”; and “What are your long-term career goals?” Common interview reflectionsincluded, “I rushed through questions; I won’t do that next time”, “We should

Conference Session

Capstone Pedgagogy

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Stephen Andrew Wilkerson P.E., York College of Pennsylvania; Stephen Andrew Gadsden, University of Guelph; Elyse Hill

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Technology Directorate from West Point he has continued his research on unmanned systems under ARL’s Campaign for Maneuver as the Associate Director of Special Programs. Throughout his career he has continued to teach at a variety of colleges and universities. For the last 4 years he has been a part time instructor and collaborator with researchers at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (http://me.umbc.edu/directory/). He is currently an Assistant Professor at York College PA.Dr. Stephen Andrew Gadsden, University of Guelph Andrew completed his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering and Management (Business) at McMaster University in 2006. In 2011, he completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at McMaster in the

Conference Session

Design Assessment

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Crepeau P.E., University of Idaho, Moscow; Michael R. Maughan P.E., University of Idaho, Moscow; Dan Cordon, University of Idaho, Moscow; Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow; Matthew John Swenson P.E., University of Idaho, Moscow; Daniel J. Robertson, University of Idaho, Moscow; Sean Michael Quallen, University of Idaho, Moscow

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which several of the student authors have been involved. Dr. Beyerlein has been active in research projects involving engine testing, engine heat release modeling, design of curricula for active , design pedagogy, and assessment of professional skills.Dr. Matthew John Swenson P.E., University of Idaho, Moscow After graduating from Oregon State University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1999, I im- mediately pursued a career in industry, quickly excelling and continuously accepting roles of increasing responsibility. The first five years, I worked at GK Machine, Inc., a small company south of Portland, designing customized agricultural equipment. Next, I worked at Hyster-Yale Material Handling, most re

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Student Empathy & Human-centered Design

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Jackson, Yale University; Nathan Mentzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Scott R. Bartholomew, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Greg J. Strimel, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

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Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering fos- ter or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning, to understand engineering stu- dents’ identity development. She has won several awards for her research

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ferris Pfeiffer, University of Missouri; Johannes Strobel, University of Missouri; Suzanne Burgoyne, University of Missouri

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Design in Engineering Education

performing routine research tasks. Unfortunately, thisapproach, whether in research training programs or traditional academic programs, has not led toa workforce capable of innovating at the level required for rapid research progress. For instance,when employers across industries were asked the level of preparedness for creative andinnovative thinking in recent hires, 25% of employers believed students lacked preparation inthese areas [10]. Indeed, employers continue to demand more creative thinking in recentgraduates, particularly engineering graduates, than they are currently demonstrating [11-13].This is particularly startling given that the continuous growth rate of engineering careers, asdetermined by a study from the U.S. Bureau of Labor

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denny Davis, Ohio State University; Peter Rogers, The Ohio State University

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American Society for Engineering Education.Dr. Peter Rogers, The Ohio State University Dr. Peter Rogers, Professor of Practice Engineering Education Innovation Center The Ohio State Univer- sity Columbus, OH 43210 Rogers.693@osu.edu Rogers joined the university in October, 2008 bringing with him 35 years of industrial experience. His career includes senior leadership roles in engineering, sales, and manufacturing developing products us- ing multidisciplinary teams to convert customer needs to commercially viable products and services. He brings this experience to the university where he leads the effort in developing experiential, multidisci- plinary learning. Rogers co-led the development of an ABET approved

Conference Session

Professional Skills and Teaming in Design

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark W. Steiner, University of Central Florida; Kurt Stephen Stresau, University of Central Florida

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Design in Engineering Education

motivations for this include “accommodation” of student interests andpreferences in hopes of influencing student learning outcomes and team effectiveness, whileproviding an efficient and fair method of assigning students to project teams.3. Objectives, Assumptions and MethodologyIn the interest of understanding how team selection might impact project results in a capstonesetting, we collected and analyzed data on over eight-two capstone project teams over foursemesters. The data consisted of a combination of quantitative and qualitative parametersincluding academic performance, practical engineering experience, career interests, projectpreferences, personality, and technical skills used to assign individual students to project teamsover four

Conference Session

Student Empathy and Human-Centered Design

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lexie Mitchell, Colorado School of Mines; Leslie Light, Colorado School of Mines

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Design in Engineering Education

Design from Stanford University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in Entrepreneurial Management. Prior to joining Mines she spent 20 years as a designer, project manager, and portfolio manager in Fortune 500 companies and smaller firms in the Silicon Valley and abroad. She is passionate about bringing the user-centered de- sign principles she learned at Stanford and in her career to Mines’ open-ended problem solving program, and is working with others on campus to establish a broader integrated context for innovation and design. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Increasing Student Empathy Through Immersive Stakeholder

Conference Session

Design Projects

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Gershenson, Michigan Technological University

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for the day, one student turned to me and said, “That wasincredible. I have never had the experience where I was the one that everyone else wanted to be.I never thought that would happen in engineering or school.” This past year, we had one studentwho had set plans to get an MBA and go into marketing after graduation, assuming that theywere not a good engineer and they were therefore uninterested in doing it as a career. At ourfinal lunch the team member said, “I never knew I was this good of an engineer. Now I have torethink my whole career plan.” Competition programs run well give these sorts of opportunitiesmore readily than the typical industry sponsored programs. Competition programs run poorlygive no such opportunities.One other

Conference Session

Best of DEED

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Wang, University of California, Berkeley

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Design in Engineering Education

Challenges at a Science Center  AbstractMany engineers attribute their careers to early interest in STEM. Interest, not performance, hasbeen shown to be a greater predictor of choosing to concentrate in STEM1. However, schoolsoften neglect the engineering component of STEM. Consequently, extracurriculars such asscience centers must play key roles in influencing children by fostering interest in engineering.Taking advantage of the popular tinkering and Do-It-Yourself Maker movement, increasinglymore science centers are offering engineering and maker programs. But are they empoweringvisitors to engineer?This paper details the study of the Ingenuity Lab, an engineering maker space at the LawrenceHall of Science. The space is open to drop-in visitors on

Conference Session

Design Projects across the Curriculum

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly Warners, Western Michigan University; Britney Richmond, Western Michigan University; Adam Eaton, Western Michigan University; Andrew Kline, Western Michigan University; Betsy Aller, Western Michigan University; Edmund Tsang, Western Michigan University

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team began research into the methodof rapid prototyping as a means of production. Rapid prototyping was selected because of theguaranteed tolerances and the efficient manner in which multiple hands-on models could beproduced. The team received funds from the Michigan Space Grant Consortium which were usedto finance the production of this project. The devices were tested against the original designspecifications to evaluate the practicality of rapid prototyping as a method of producing enoughdevices to outfit a classroom.IntroductionThe demand for science, technology, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) occupations hasbeen increasing, which means those interested in pursuing STEM related careers needs to beincreasing as well. Many adolescents

Conference Session

DEED Melange

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University; Kathryn Schulte Grahame, Northeastern University

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Design in Engineering Education

misconceptions, the overall benefit of gaining this technicalknowledge will have longer term benefits. The ability of students to familiarize themselves withcurrent technical advances through research will be a valuable tool moving forward in anyengineering career. Figure 6 provides a graphical visualization of the results from Question 3.Figure 6: Question 3 Assessment ResultsQuestion 4: Based on your experiences so far, do you think you have the ability to become anengineer?The goal of this lone first-year engineering course was to introduce students to engineeringdesign and how it utilizes talents from all aspects of a student’s academic repertoire. Manystudents come in apprehensive about their abilities to succeed and this question aimed to

Conference Session

Design Communications & Cognition II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caleb DeValve, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Richard M. Goff, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Design in Engineering Education

for this settingshould be considered in the curricular approach.Two important issues to consider are the retention and interest of students in the engineeringprogram, which are directly related to the curriculum's focus and outcomes towards preparingeach enrolled student for a career beyond graduation [9-10]. By proposing a new design coursewhich combines the instruction of design theory with principles of emerging technologiesapplied towards a relevant design problem, it is argued that students' perceived significance ofthe topics and relevance towards career applications are enhanced. As a result of completing thiscourse, the students will practice the design process, be able to explain and discuss the emergingtechnology, be able to apply

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rob O. Hovsapian, Florida State Univeristy ; Chiang Shih, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Bruce A. Harvey, Florida A&M University/Florida State University, College of Engineering; Okenwa I. Okoli, Florida A&M University/Florida State University

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Design in Engineering Education

technical but criticalfor the pursuit of a successful engineering career. These needed skills include: team-orientedmentality, problem solving, project planning and control, project management and writing skills,etc. The purpose of the Senior Design Project is to pull them all together and apply them towardsthe design and implementation of a project and to afford the students an opportunity to experienceteam-based design under conditions that closely resemble those that will be encountered in realworld. Students working in teams will develop and sharpen skills in team organization, timemanagement, self-discipline, and technical writing, in order to be successful in this course. Animportant goal of this course is to expose students to “hands-on

Conference Session

Project-Based Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oscar G. Nespoli, University of Waterloo; Harry Tempelman, Hitachi Construction Truck Mfg Ltd.; Ryan Spencer; Steve Lambert, University of Waterloo

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2011-111: DISK BRAKE DESIGN CASE STUDY IMPLEMENTATIONMETHOD AND STUDENT SURVEY RESULTSOscar G Nespoli, University of Waterloo Oscar Nespoli is a Lecturer in Engineering and Mechanical Design and Director of Curriculum Devel- opment in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo (Waterloo). Oscar joined Waterloo following a 23 year career in research, engineering and management practice in industry and government. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of engineering design methodologies, design practice, engineering education and high performance, lightweight, com- posite materials design. Oscar is passionate about teaching engineering and, as part of his

Conference Session

Design Methodologies 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Madalyn Wilson-Fetrow, University of New Mexico; Yan Chen, University of New Mexico; Eva Chi, University of New Mexico; Abhaya K. Datye, University of New Mexico; Sang M. Han, University of New Mexico; Jamie Gomez, University of New Mexico; Andrew Olewnik, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

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project. She was selected as a National Academy of Educa- tion / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow and a 2018 NSF CAREER awardee in engineering education research. Dr. Svihla studies learning in authentic, real world conditions, specifically on design learning, in which she studies engineers designing devices, scientists designing investigations, teachers designing learning experiences and students designing to learn.Ms. Madalyn Wilson-Fetrow, University of New MexicoDr. Yan Chen, University of New Mexico Yan Chen is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of New Mexico. Her research interests focus on computer supported collaborative learning, learning sciences

Conference Session

DEED Postcard Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Rogers, The Ohio State University; Denny C. Davis, The Ohio State University; Sarah Winfree, The Ohio State University ; Kaycee Ash, The Ohio State University; Lin Ding, The Ohio State University

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Paper ID #19289Work in Progress: Assessing Motivation in Capstone Design CoursesDr. Peter Rogers, The Ohio State University Dr. Peter Rogers is a Professor of Practice in the Department of Engineering Education The Ohio State University. He joined the university in October 2008 bringing with him 35 years of industrial experience. His career includes senior leadership roles in engineering, sales, and manufacturing developing products using multidisciplinary teams to convert customer needs to commercially viable products and services. Rogers co-led the development of an ABET-approved year-long Capstone design experience

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Laguette, University of California-Santa Barbara

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2007-2449: DEVELOPMENT OF A CAPSTONE DESIGN PROGRAM FORUNDERGRADUATE MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGStephen Laguette, University of California-Santa Barbara Stephen Laguette received his MS in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA in 1977. His career has included executive R&D management positions with a number of medical device companies. He has been responsible for the creation of complex medical devices with over fourteen US patents issued in a variety of surgical fields including General Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Urology, Neurosurgery, ENT, Voice Restoration, and Ophthalmology. As the Director of Device Research for Advanced Medical Optics (AMO), a major ophthalmic medical device company, he

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susannah Howe, Smith College; Ron Lasser, Tufts University; Katie Su, Smith College; Sarah Pedicini, Smith College

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Design in Engineering Education

program, identify a benchmark, andrecommend areas for improvement? The work presented in this paper is a first step in a longerprocess to answer this question.The research discussed below builds on the premise that an academic institution is preparing itsengineering students for a level of proficiency in their discipline. Upon graduation, theseeducated engineers are attractive to industry as entry-level employees. (Note, this work isspecifically focused on the industrial career path.) The best measurement for proficiency is tovalidate industry’s expectations of an entry-level engineer against the product that academia hasproduced. Within that context, the focus of this research is on the design, project, andprofessional attributes associated with

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Somerton, Michigan State University

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Design in Engineering Education

amagnate school recruiting fair, career day, and other school functions.Observations and ConclusionsA successful partnership has been established that combines the capstone design experience withelementary school outreach. Factors contributing to the success include: ≠ Shaping the 5th grade curriculum toward the capstone project. ≠ Enthusiasm of the elementary school staff to participate in the partnership ≠ Commitment of the capstone instructor to elementary school activities beyond the capstone project ≠ Funding from the Motorola FoundationOne major challenge that exists is to more fully use the teaching aides that have been developedthrough the capstone projects.References1. Davis, Karen C., Perkey, Megan L., Harth

Conference Session

Design for Community and Environment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Kimes, University of Missouri-Kansas City; Deborah O'Bannon, University of Missouri-Kansas City

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Design in Engineering Education

allow the students enough latitude to developthe project through their own judgment. Guidance to the students was often provided as asuggestion of next steps to take, rather than as a task to be accomplished. On occasion, morespecific direction would be provided to the students. The goal, from a City perspective, however,was to produce professionals at the beginning of their careers with enough understanding, andeventually, self-confidence, to identify project needs and develop strategies for completing theproject.The City of Kansas City, as the design client for the senior design group, is able to tolerate theextended design time needed by students. Coordination of civil engineering student designs withprivate firms need to keep the lead time

Conference Session

DEED Postcard Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary; Aloysius F. Hepp, Nanotech Innovations LLC; Vikram Shyam, NASA Glenn Research Center

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Design in Engineering Education

33-year career in the areas of biomimicry, energy conversion and storage, precursors for spray pyrolysis of metal sulfides and carbon nanotubes, thin film and nanomaterials for photovoltaics and batteries, materials processing of local resources for exploration and colonization of the solar system, and flight experiments for Mars and small satellites. He has nearly 200 publications in refereed journals, conference proceedings, tech- nical publications, and book chapters. His six patents have resulted in the formation of two companies to exploit gallium arsenide passivation (Gallia, Inc.) and low-temperature chemical vapor deposition of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (Nanotech Innovations, LLC). He is on the

Conference Session

Design in K-12 Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Patrick James Herak, Ohio State University; Meg E. West, Ohio State University; J. Blake Hylton, Ohio Northern University; Todd France, Ohio Northern University; Bruce Wellman, Olathe Northwest High School

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Design in Engineering Education

“Building Informed Designers” project is to incorporate engineeringdesign into existing high school science courses with minimal expense to improve designthinking and problem solving by all high school students. A secondary goal is to increase thenumber of students who will pursue college or community college engineering career pathways.Problem solving and thus problem framing are a key first step of the engineering design process.Davis, Beyerlin, & Davis [3] describes the role of a problem solver as one in which she“examines the problem setting to understand critical issues, assumptions, limitations, andsolution requirements.” Problem solving has been studied and found to be critical in design anddecision making [4-8]. Complex problems can

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Student Empathy & Human-centered Design

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devanshi Shah, Florida Institute of Technology; Elisabeth Kames, Florida Institute of Technology ; McKenzie Carol Clark, Florida Institute of Technology; Beshoy Morkos, Florida Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

career goals. In allcases, students are assigned to a project (or team mate) that was listed in one of their three choices.Most of the students are assigned to their first choice of project or teammate.During the two senior design courses, students work on their project within their project team. Thecourse allows the student to demonstrate their understanding of the theory in a practical real worldengineering challenge and gain experience. Teams present weekly to an advisory board consistingof at least a customer, professor, and a graduate student. This advisory board serves to monitorstudent progress throughout the course of the project. During the first semester, students definetheir problem statement, develop requirements, generate concepts

Conference Session

Professional Skills development in Design

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Schmitt, Florida Institute of Technology; Elisabeth Kames, Florida Institute of Technology; Beshoy Morkos, Florida Institute of Technology; Ted A. Conway, Florida Institute of Technology

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, especially in STEM-related programs 6,7.Nonetheless, the soft skills necessary to succeed in engineering are highlighted in accreditingagencies such as ABET 8,9To mitigate the lack of empathy, employers will often hire engineers who share empathy with theproduct’s target user. For example, the automotive industry has recognized that while femalesbuy 52% and have a significant influence on 85% of all car purchasing decisions, less than 20%of the automotive workforce is comprised of females 10. To address this disparity, theautomotive industry is actively seeking means to increase female employees within variousautomotive sectors. Likewise, it is important that engineering careers that design forhandicapped or elderly target users attract handicapped

Conference Session

Professional Skills development in Design

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia Smith, University of Calgary ; Genevieve Hoffart, University of Calgary; Tom O'Neill, University of Calgary

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Design in Engineering Education

communication capabilities. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Peer Feedback on Teamwork Behaviors: Reactions and Intentions to ChangeIntroductionThe ability to work well in a team has been identified by the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) as one of the required graduate outcomes that engineeringprograms must address to meet accreditation standards1. A career in industry will inevitablyinvolve team membership, as companies utilize teamwork to ensure quality control and processsmoothness2. Given this need, engineering programs must encourage the development of theinterpersonal skills necessary for teamwork in their curricula in order