Conference Session

Engineering Physics Technical Session 3

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg S Mowry, University of St. Thomas; Camille M George, University of St. Thomas

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

, production processes, concurrent engineering design, and detailed system description. Further it is essential to include a variety of realistic constraints, such as economic factors, safety, reliability, aesthetics, ethics and social impact.”1Senior design is an apprentice-like involvement and the highlight of the undergraduate engineeringexperience. Most projects are sponsored by local industries or motivated by the needs of thedepartment or a faculty member. Since 2003, UST has tried to offer at least one of its senior designprojects to consider the needs of material-resource poor people at the base of the economicpyramid. These projects often bring to life the ‘realistic constraints, such as economic factors,safety, reliability

Conference Session

Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramanitharan Kandiah P.E., Central State University; Subramania Iyer Sritharan, Central State University; Gorgui S. Ndao, Central State University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

in May.Recruitment and RetentionEvery year, while this institute helps to recruit 1-2 students from the pool of 25-30 participantsfor the engineering and science programs, it also helps to support the few undergraduate studentsas mentoring counselors in summer as a form of retention and to improve their leadership,management and communication skills, and work ethics. The impact of instructing engineeringphysics at early stages on performance in the college is strong and could be systematized withexpanding such instruction to include additional engineering physics.Available details on the demographic statistics of STI from 2008 to 2016 are given below(except for 2010 for which year data is unavailable) in Table 1.Table 1: Demographic