Conference Session

Technical Session T2

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Lee Kemp Rynearson, Campbell University

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GIFTS

: Incorporating Patent Review into First-Year Student Design Projects to Support Ideation, Concept Selection, and CommercializationCampbell University requires every engineering student to take a rigorous 3-credit semester-length design course, typically in their second semester of study. Student teams of 3-5 pursue adesign problem of their selection from problem finding through prototyping and the presentationof prototypes and the results of testing to engineers from local industry. Integration of patentreview into the course presented the opportunity to enhance design instruction and projectoutcomes by providing students with 1) an additional source of potentially relevant mechanismsand design inspiration, 2

Conference Session

Technical Session T2

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Debjani Sarkar; Timothy J Hinds, Michigan State University

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GIFTS

Timothy Hinds First-Year Engineering CoRe Experience Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 sarkarde@msu.edu, hinds@msu.edu IntroductionEngineers are global communicators. Our first-year engineering students write and present technicalreports, lab reports, capstone projects, formal emails, posters, elevator pitches and more, tocommunicate their technical knowledge globally to a wide variety of audiences. They are required topresent information as concisely and objectively as possible. Although the importance ofcommunication may seem self-evident, our students need to be more motivated to

Conference Session

Technical Session T2

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Allison L. Kinney, University of Dayton; Vinayak Vijayan, University of Dayton; Yucheng Li, University of Dayton; Shanpu Fang, University of Dayton

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GIFTS

mechanical engineersfocused on building foundational skills in use of spreadsheets, plotting, data manipulation, andbasic programming through two software tools: Microsoft Excel and MATLAB. The course istaught in a flipped classroom format with students learning new concepts outside of theclassroom through an interactive online textbook [3] and class sessions devoted to time forstudents to work on problems in the online textbook and software-based projects withapplications to mechanical engineering with assistance from peers and instructors.In the initial implementation of this course, students spent most weeks in the semester workingsolely in the online textbook and completed software-based projects during 4 dedicated projectweeks distributed

Conference Session

Technical Session T2

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Sarah Lynn Benson, Northeastern University ; Leila Keyvani Someh, Northeastern University

Tagged Topics

GIFTS

peers.Following this lecture, solo presentations took place in a town hall setting. Students wererequired to act as a representative for their team, advocating their project design. Thispresentation was recorded using classroom streaming technology and posted on the course site.Each student was asked to review themself on this recording with a rubric and make commentsin an individual reflection. They also received feedback from both their instructors and peers inan online survey format. While this later section was designed to challenge the student in aformal setting, reflection and feedback remained the focal point of the assignment.In the fall semester of 2020, a class of 28 students was surveyed about this unit and 22 responseswere received. Students

Conference Session

Technical Session T2

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Christopher Horne P.E., North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, GIFTS

the voltage across the two points.The ability to understand and apply this equation is useful in electrical, computer, biological andeven mechanical engineering courses and industry projects. The teaching method used forexplaining the series circuit is a running track analogy followed by a low cost electric circuit kitthat the students build and test. They also learn how to model the circuit using MATLAB Simulink.Students engage in discussions and surveys on the running event called the hurdles and its physicalrelationship to circuit experiments. The running track analogy is first presented with an actual videoof an Olympic hurdle event in the Problem Solving for Engineers course for freshman. Students aretested on the analogy and each

Conference Session

Technical Session T2

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Edward P Gatzke, University of South Carolina

Tagged Topics

GIFTS

college student development 40.3 (1999): 269. 5. Spanierman, Lisa B., et al. "Living learning communities and students’ sense of community and belonging." Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice 50.3 (2013): 308-325. 6. Topalli, Damla, and Nergiz Ercil Cagiltay. "Improving programming skills in engineering education through problem-based game projects with Scratch." Computers & Education 120 (2018): 64-74.