Conference Session

Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Digital Systems Education 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheng Chih Liu, University of Wisconsin Stout

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Electrical and Computer

American Society for Engineering Education, 2015Teaching Digital Designs by Building Small Autonomous Robotic Vehicles Using an FPGA PlatformThis article discusses the experiences of implementing a new model in teaching and learningdigital designs using Verilog in an embedded systems design course. This paper discusses thecourse structure, laboratory exercises, student projects and project evaluation process, and finallythe student evaluation outcomes. Students’ course assessment and student learning outcomeswere very positive. In many existing digital designs curriculum, students learn how to createstructural and behavioral models in Verilog Hardware Description Language (HDL) to designsimple combinational and

Conference Session

Revitalization of Manufacturing Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shekar Viswanathan, National University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

length of the program through assignments, tests, andcapstone projects. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the assessmentprocess developed and adopted in our institution to evaluate the manufacturing designprogram. It provides details regarding how a curriculum map and a multiyear assessmentplan should be developed and what direct and indirect measures should be adopted forassessment. A recently completed five-year assessment data will be used to illustrate theeffectiveness of assessment. A list of do’s and don’ts are provided based on theassessment outcome.Description of National University and Its Student Body Founded in 1971, National University (NU) is an independent, nonprofitinstitution of higher education1. Since its

Conference Session

Mechatronics

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John G. Cherng P.E., University of Michigan-Dearborn; Ben Q. Li, University of Michigan, Dearborn; Narasimhamurthi Natarajan, University of Michigan, Dearborn

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Mechanical Engineering

Page 23.424.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Development of a Mechatronics Course for Senior Mechanical Engineering StudentsAbstractThis paper presents the development of a mechanical engineering senior elective course titled:“ME472 Principles and Applications of Mechatronics System Design”. The main objective ofthis course is to teach students the principles and applications of mechatronic systems. Tenhands-on laboratory projects and two course projects were integrated into the course to enhance astudent’s comprehension of mechatronics concepts. Students were required to complete eachcourse project independently. The outcome of the course was

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Danner Friend, Norwich University; Jacques N Beneat, Norwich University

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Aerospace

students in aerospace-related research projects. Some of the research areas include autonomous navigation of micro-space vehicles, underwater robotic vehicles, and design of experiments for testing new materials for spacecraft thermal protection systems.Dr. Jacques N Beneat, Norwich University Dr. Jacques Beneat received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Massachusetts in 1993 with focus on advanced microwave structures for satellite communications. He is currently associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Norwich University in Vermont. He has been involved in undergraduate research for many years with international collaborations with

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Duesing; Morrie Walworth; Jim Devaprasad; Ray Adams; David McDonald

industrial environment isprovided to Lake Superior State University (LSSU) students in the junior year through some ofthe engineering lab courses. An overall goal in these courses is to entail the critical thinkingskills of the students to solve problems through open-ended lab assignments that are notcompletely defined. A project will be given to the student (the project engineer) from the faculty(the project manager) in the form of an industrial memo. The timelines and minimum expectedoutcomes of the project will be defined in the memo. Completion of the project satisfying onlythe minimum outcomes is considered average performance thereby encouraging students toexplore other considerations and outcomes for a superior evaluation. Both objective

Conference Session

ETD - A Technology Potpourri II

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Austin Asgill, Kennesaw State University; Eric Redding, Kennesaw State University

Thermal Scan that wasdeveloped as part of a Senior Capstone Design Projects course at Kennesaw State University(KSU).The design of the Automated Door System with Thermal Scan was tested to verify thefunctionality of the design, and most of the objectives for the design project were met. However,this is an ongoing project and recommendations for further research and development work willbe documented. Some specific recommendations for future work include more rigorous testing indifferent outdoor environments, designing a housing unit to house the components to create amore controlled environment for the system, and testing the performance at different distanceswith the thermal scanner.Background The project was undertaken to fulfill the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harry Franz, University of Houston-Downtown

actual hands-ondesign projects that range from the initial requirements of the authorized jurisdiction to thesystem final design.Many of the fire alarm code studies students are fire and safety personnel. In addition, otherstudents work in various related professions. The class students also have varied technicalexperience levels and backgrounds in academics.The students in the fire code studies become acquainted with the national fire alarm code byusing newly developed handouts and reference material, national fire alarm code handbooks thatcontains practical explanations of the code, and many actual practical design projects.A feature that makes these class studies unique is the heavy use of group efforts and interactionof the groups on many

Conference Session

Perspectives on Service Learning: Challenges, Successes, and Opportunities

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David C. Che, Mount Vernon Nazarene University; Steve Feazel, Vision Word

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Community Engagement Division

author's teaching career, occasionally a local inventor would have a need foreither prototyping an idea or developing a drawing/CAD model for an existing prototype. It isquite possible for the academic institution of higher learning to partner with the inventor to meetthe needs of both the inventor and the educator. The educator is always searching for projectideas that are real and practical to give to students to work on. Students in general are moremotivated to work on a real project than a fictitious one. This paper documents a case study inwhich a group of engineering undergraduate students seized the opportunity to work with a localinventor and entrepreneur. The instructor will share the lessons learned and some assessmentresults.In spring

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Moshe Barak, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Aerospace

AC 2010-318: A MODEL FOR PROMOTING COGNITION, META-COGNITIONAND MOTIVATIONMoshe Barak, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Page 15.55.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A Model for Promoting Cognition, Metacognition and Motivation in the Technological Class: The Theory of Self- Regulated LearningAbstractEducators widely acknowledge the advantages of project-based learning intechnology and engineering over traditional schooling. However, teachers with astrong background in engineering often focus on learning specific subject matter andcompleting a technical work rather than developing students’ learning competences.To address

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15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE)

Authors

Toluwani Collins Olukanni, Norwich University; Majd Khalaf, Norwich University; Michael Cross, Norwich University; David M. Feinauer P.E., Virginia Military Institute; Ali Al Bataineh, Norwich University

Paper ID #45016Full Paper: Future-Ready Students: Survey Analysis Utilizing Natural LanguageProcessingToluwani Collins Olukanni, Norwich UniversityMajd Khalaf, Norwich University Majd Khalaf is a senior undergraduate student at Norwich University, majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is deeply passionate about DevOps engineering and machine learning. Majd has contributed to various projects and research in natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision. Currently, he is a Site Reliability Engineering intern at Walmart ASR and a Senior AI Researcher at Norwich University’s Artificial Intelligence

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Harvey Lyons

and introductory engineering technologycourses. The entering students were exposed to a multi-dimensional course whose basic purposewas to efficiently provide not only an understanding of what is involved in the ‘design process’performed in industry but also the opportunity to employ and develop those design functions andskills at the very outset of the students’ undergraduate experience. The several components ofthe course were integrated to include:  Use of technical resources  Technical report writing and oral delivery  Research into the functions of technical societies  Comprehensive discussions of fundamental manufacturing processes followed by design projects that would employ a given process towards the redesign

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ashraf M. Ghaly

CUTTING STUDENTS’ IMAGINATION LOOSE PAYS RICH DIVIDENDS Ashraf M. Ghaly ghalya@union.edu Union College 807 Union Street, Schenectady, NY 12308 Abstract: The Technical Drawing course is a freshman level course taken by engineering students at Union College. The course covers the fundamentals of engineering graphics and heavily relies on the software package SolidWorks in drawing parts, assemblies, and engineering plans. Project GraphSpeak is an exciting design project that was introduced to give the students an opportunity to put into practice the knowledge gained in this course

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2023 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Chad S. Korach, University of Mount Union; Margo Miller, University of Mount Union

designers. To address this idea an integratedgeneral education capstone course is developed that intersects artistic design principles withengineering design. The course is co-taught by engineering and art department faculty membersusing project-based learning and delivery is through a lecture-studio model. Students from allmajors across campus enroll, these have included students from engineering, art, as well as thesocial and natural sciences and humanities which presents challenges for instruction andpedagogy. Structurally, the course is divided into three scaffolded projects beginning with anindividual project, followed by pairs, and the final project being a team of three or four students,respectively. Students work in broad-based

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jessica Marie Mingee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ann-Perry Witmer P.E., University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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Student

Paper ID #32678Work in Progress: Contextualizing Engineering Service Learning byApplying the Practices of Community OrganizingJessica Marie Mingee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jessica Mingee is a junior pursuing a major in Mechanical Engineering and a minor in Sustainability, Energy, and Environment at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a project lead within Engineers Without Borders, working with the community of Hopkins Park, Illinois to rehabilitate their wastewater system. Based on her interest in understanding how engineers gain the trust of their client communities, her research

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mihaela Radu, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Clint COLE, Washington State University, Pullman; Mircea Dabacan, Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania; Joe Harris, DigilentInc; Albert Fazekas, Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania; Ioana DABACAN, Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania

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Electrical and Computer

community 4. Several students answering the surveys said that it sounded fun or cool, and one student was proud to represent his school. At both schools, the emphasis of the competition is on conceptual design, implementation andvalidation of original and projects using FPGA boards and HDL languages (VHDL at TUCNand Verilog at RHIT). The contest is mainly dedicated to undergraduate students, who enter thecompetition with original projects. In terms of logistics the idea is to have a “Call for Projects”in the fall quarter at RHIT /fall semester at TUCN, to assess and accept the projects in the Page 14.414.3winter quarter/ fall semester, and to

Conference Session

ECCD Technical Session 3: Energy and Multidisciplinary

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jacques Belanger, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Andrew Davol, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Huy A Duong, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Trent Hamilton

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

, CAAbstractA multidisciplinary renewable energy laboratory has been established at Cal Poly, San LuisObispo to offer students the opportunity to work on projects related to the energy field that spanseveral disciplines. Currently projects involving five engineering disciplines are being pursuedwith undergraduate and graduate students being advised by faculty members from across thecollege. We are utilizing many of the instructional modes available to us spanning from a singleunit independent study to a master’s thesis. This paper details one of these projects, highlightingthe multidisciplinary nature of the energy field and the quality of the student experience.IntroductionRenewable energy is a topic of increasing importance for students in several

Conference Session

Educational Strategies in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James B Guthrie P.E., California Polytechnic State University

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Architectural

potential gap through extensiveinteraction between the Architectural Engineering (ARCE) and the Architecture (ARCH)Departments, two of five departments located within the college. The ARCE Department hastraditionally taught a sequence of five structural courses to ARCH students with the goal ofgiving them structural engineering skills so that in their careers as project leaders they will betterunderstand structural engineering systems and principles. With this ability they can betterproduce efficient integrated designs, collaborate effectively with their structural engineeringconsultants and lead more successful projects.Although the five course structural sequence has been comprehensive and has given theArchitecture students the skills needed to

Conference Session

Computer Modeling/CAD in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sung-Hwan Joo, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

CourseAbstractThe projects and assignments in freshman level CAD/CAM courses provide students a valuablechance to develop their skills further. In the past, most of assignments and projects were aboutdesigning simple mechanical (and/or electrical) system and theories without requiring anymanufacturing skills. However, students need to have basic manufacturing skills as they move upto the upper level classes or when they graduate. Students who have a good manufacturing skillstend to have better hands-on skills and to be more successful as students as well as engineers.In this specific example class, students are required to learn manufacturing skills through severalunique manufacturing assignments. Three manufacturing assignments including Keychain

Conference Session

Understanding Student Development in Design

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University; Steven Patrick Potter

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #22506Interdisciplinary Embedded Systems Design: Integrating Hardware-OrientedEmbedded Systems Design with Software-Oriented Embedded Systems De-velopmentMs. Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University CYNTHIA C. FRY is currently a Senior Lecturer of Computer Science at Baylor University. She worked at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center as a Senior Project Engineer, a Crew Training Manager, and the Science Operations Director for STS-46. She was an Engineering Duty Officer in the U.S. Navy (IRR), and worked with the Naval Maritime Intelligence Center as a Scientific/Technical Intelligence Analyst. She was the owner and chief

Conference Session

Design for the Environment

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dong Young Jang, Seoul National University of Technology; Heewon Lee, Seoul National University of Technology; Sitae Won, Seoul National University of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

oriented) themes for graduation projects andinducing students to industry, new approaches of industry-academy cooperation and apractical engineering design education have been created. This paper will explain anddiscuss this newly established engineering design education model, results from the capstonedesign education, and its effects on design education.2. Capstone Design EducationThe level of domestic design technologies reaches only about 50%-70% of the top level ofthe world. When a new design technology is introduced, 5~20% of overall sales must beincreased. 1 The domestic industry is especially lacking in system design technology (46.9%)and materials technology (28.8%). 1 Also, at least 2-3 years of field training and experienceneeded for

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education in Engineering Technology

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heather Woodward-Hagg, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis; Deanna Suskovich, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis; Jamie Workman-Germann, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis; Susan Scachitti, Purdue University-Calumet

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Engineering Technology

implementation impact. However, the inherent complexity and variability presentwithin economic evaluation models often limits practical use for assessment of theeconomic impact of field implementations as well as within Total Quality Management(TQM) curriculums. In response to the limitations of traditional accounting andengineering economics methods, Engineering Technology faculty at IUPUI and otherPurdue regional campuses have created an Excel-based spreadsheet model for evaluation ofthe economic impact of quality improvement projects throughout the implementation cycle.Although this tool was specifically developed for use within healthcare, we have found thismethodology to be invaluable for supporting project initiation and assessment of

Conference Session

Energy Education and Industry Needs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Recayi 'Reg' Pecen; Soner Tarim

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

19campuses and more than 7000 students all over the Texas took an initiative tour toward globalawareness. The Cosmos foundation organizes an annual transformative International ScienceFair Olympiad called I-SWEEEP (International Sustainable World Energy Engineering &Environment Project Olympiad) since 2008. The Cosmos Foundation brings the best andbrightest students from all over the world to Houston, Texas to demonstrate their selectedresearch findings. This paper describes how this Olympiad engages young minds in a search forsolutions to the environmental and energy related challenges of today in hopes of achieving asustainable world for tomorrow. The I-SWEEEP stimulates students’ interest in practicalsolutions and cultivates the future of the

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas McCormack; Franz Rad; Dale Richwine; Azad Mohammadi; Scott Huff

course (CivilEngineering Design) began as an experimental course taken by students as an elective, but soonbecame a required course for all seniors. It is taught during the spring quarter of the senior yearas a “capstone” course and constitutes the last required design course in the program. A courseentitled “Engineering Project Management” is a precursor. The goals of the design course are tomake it as near to actual design office practice as possible, for the instructors to “guide” thestudents as opposed to “lecture” them, and to have practitioners guide the design projects.IntroductionPortland State University (PSU) runs on a quarter system, with each quarter spanning ten weeksplus final exams. Civil Engineering curriculum at PSU includes two

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Natalie A. Mello

Session 2660 How can universities provide a global perspective for engineers? One institution’s solution Natalie A. Mello Worcester Polytechnic InstituteAbstractWorcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has long embraced a project-based curriculum that nowextends to the four corners of the globe. With established programs in Europe, the Far East,Latin America, Australia, the US and new initiatives in Africa, WPI provides opportunities forundergraduates to complete meaningful off-campus experiences. WPI offers students thefreedom to complete degree requirements away from

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 10: Special Topics and Innovative Methods in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bo Yu, Utah Valley University; Anne-marie A Lerner, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Mike Zampaloni, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

Zampaloni, University of Wisconsin, Platteville ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Entrepreneurial Minded Learning in a Core Junior-Level Mechanical Vibrations CourseAbstractThis paper describes the implementation of a project that incorporated prototyping and theentrepreneurial mindset into a core, junior-level Mechanical Vibrations course in the mechanicalengineering curriculum. The course underwent an update that included the modification of ahands-on prototyping project integrating aspects of the entrepreneurial mindset into the projectrequirements starting Summer 2021. The project required that all aspects were verified usingtraditional theoretical relationships, were

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2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Sara E. Wilson; Emma Grob-French; Patsy Maddy; Nancy Noyes

. In a required first-year programming coursefor Mechanical Engineers, students worked towards that learning outcome through a service-learning project. The project consisted of development Arduino-based projects that couldcompete in the county and Kansas state fairs in robotics. Teams were expected to develop theproject and then develop instructional materials such that a high school student could constructthe project. These instructional materials were made available to participants in 4-H through awebsite. By creating a project that was public-facing and had impact beyond the classroom,students were encouraged to think about their team efforts beyond the impact individually totheir grades. Future development of this project will focus on

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Byul Hur, Texas A&M University

courses are typically included in the EngineeringTechnology Curriculum for an electronics system program. At Texas A&M University, the ElectronicSystems Engineering Technology (ESET) program is offered. For the embedded systems courses thatthe author has been teaching, students learn about microcontroller architecture and microcontrollerapplications. For the class projects, students can be given comprehensive programming and projectdemo assignments as a class project toward the end of the course. And, some of the students wouldtake the Capstone project courses in the following semesters. In this paper, the author presented theskills and knowledge that can be used from underwater robots and boat platforms to benefit embeddedsystems courses and

Conference Session

DEED Technical Session 1: Adapting to COVID and other Design Challenges

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Orser, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; Lorraine Francis, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; John Sartori; Kyle Dukart, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; Brody Hultman, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; Lauren Linderman, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; Aaron Massari, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; R Penn, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Paper ID #38013Innovating Through a Pandemic: Zooming in on theSustainable Lessons Learned in Engineering EducationDavid John Orser (Distinguished Teaching Professor) David Orser a Distinguished University Teaching Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He is a teacher, lab coordinator, and mentor with over a decade of industry experience. David teaches and leads the development of undergraduate curricula with a focus on project-based learning, experiential learning, and laboratory courses. His leadership brings together faculty, TAs, staff, and students

Conference Session

Construction Session 2: PM, BIM, and Collaboration

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla Lopez Del Puerto, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Luis G. Costa Agosto, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Douglas D. Gransberg PhD, PE, Iowa State UIniversity

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Construction

Engineering and Management University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez email: luis.costa@upr.edu http://cem.uprm.eduProf. Douglas D. Gransberg PhD, PE, Iowa State UIniversity Douglas D. Gransberg is the Donald and Sharon Greenwood Professor of Construction Engineering at Iowa State University. He received both his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Oregon State University and his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He was a faculty member at the University of Oklahoma and Texas Tech University before joining ISU in 2011. His research spans the full life cycle of engineering, construction and maintenance, from the procurement of new projects using alternative project delivery

Conference Session

Trends and Applications in Curricula and the Capstone Experience

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tonya Lynn Nilsson P.E., Santa Clara University; Kevin D. Hall, University of Arkansas; Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Paper ID #7892National Trends in the Civil Engineering Major Design Experience: PartDeuxDr. Tonya Lynn Nilsson P.E., Santa Clara University Tonya Nilsson is a full-time lecturer in the department of Civil Engineering at Santa Clara University. Previously she was on the faculty at California State University, Chico where she was a tenured associate professor. Dr. Nilsson has her professional license and has worked in industry on structural engineering projects. Dr. Nilsson worked for a number of years with ASCE’s ExCEED Teaching Workshops and served for four years on the national ASCE Committee on Faculty Development. She