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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erica Cline; Menaka Abraham; Sarah Alaei; Heather Dillon, University of Washington, Tacoma; Joyce Dinglasan-Panlilio; Jutta Beneken Heller; Zaher Kmail; Seung-Jin Lee, University of Washington, Tacoma; Eva Yihua Ma; Marc Nahmani; Amanda K Sesko; Ka Yee Yeung

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Paper ID #38182Board 207: ACCESS in STEM: An S-STEM Project Supporting Economi-callyDisadvantaged STEM-Interested Students in Their First Two YearsErica ClineMenaka AbrahamSarah AlaeiDr. Heather Dillon, University of Washington, Tacoma Dr. Heather Dillon is Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington Tacoma. Her research team is working on energy efficiency, renewable energy, fundamental heat transfer, and engineering education. Before joining academia, she worked for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a senior research engineer working on both energy efficiency and renewable

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elliott Clement, Oregon State University; James L. Huff, University of Georgia; Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University

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TwoAbstractIn this paper, we aim to summarize our efforts to understand how the identities of civil andmechanical engineering students engaged in capstone projects relate to their engagement indesign activity. Building upon our previous introductory study, we share insights from thecontent analysis of interviews with civil and mechanical engineering students engaged incapstone design courses and report initial findings related to how students’ self-perception asengineers impacts their role within the capstone team.IntroductionIn this paper, we summarize the initial results from a wider study funded through the NSF RFE(awards No. 2138019 and No. 2138106) program exploring engineering students' engagementand motivation in capstone design

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shama Rajan Iyer, Marymount University; Eric J Bubar, Marymount University

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fromProject DREAM. MU has developed and piloted 1) a two-week, immersive summer program on"Maker-Neering" targeting teaching 3D printing/design, arduino programming and VR design torecruit students into a new engineering program and 2) piloted the first semester of an innovativeyear-long introductory engineering course using low-cost makerspace technologies (including3D printers, arduino, python programming, and virtual-reality) in project-based experiences toimprove foundational engineering skills. We have successfully implemented the two-weeksummer program and the first semester of the year-long introductory engineering course, wherewe have seen students complete miniature capstone projects that address genuine communityneeds including gamifying

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lifford McLauchlan, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; David Hicks; Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi

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assignments facilitate students being able to learnremotely. Applications and lab projects can be controlled using IoT capabilities. As processorshave improved more affordable microprocessor or computer alternatives such as Arduino,Raspberry Pi and other similar platforms have become more commonly utilized in educationalsettings. In this project, IoT concepts, educational materials and methods are introduced tostudents through various avenues such as Independent Study courses, Capstone Senior Designcourses and Sensors courses.BackgroundFigure 1 shows a simple representation of an IoT system that utilizes a Raspberry Pi. TheRaspberry Pi could be replaced by an Arduino, Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), or aProgrammable Logic Controller (PLC). In

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University; Melissa Wood Aleman, James Madison University; Megan Tomko, Georgia Institute of Technology; Julie S. Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology; Oumaima Atraoui, James Madison University; Caroline Clay, James Madison University; Zachary Harris De Bey, James Madison University; Johannah Daschil, James Madison University ; Bethany Popelish, James Madison University

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structure of an engineering curriculum and the learningthat occurs outside of the classroom in makerspaces. Ethnographic methodologies of participantobservation, unstructured and semi-structured interviews enable exploration of how students (1)interact within and construct the culture of makerspaces; (2) talk about makerspace culture asimportant to their commitment to engineering; (3) learn within makerspaces; and (4) choose thetype and direction of projects.This paper specifically describes the ethnographic methodologies used to track four differentundergraduate student teams participating in a two-year senior capstone project, as well as studentsparticipating in a sophomore design class in which they use makerspaces to build a human

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emmanuelle Reynaud, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Ella Willard-Schmoe, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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- based Engineering Redesign of the motorcycle Design Project ambulance for Village25.300 F'11 1 II John Duffy Empowerment in Peru 100% 1 Interdisciplinary Engineering Redesign of the motorcylce Capstone ambulance for Village25.401 F'11 3 Design John Duffy Empowerment in Peru 100% 2Classes in Civil Engineering Groups of 4 worked with science

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeff R. Brown, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Taylor Joy Mitchell, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Chad Rohrbacher, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Leroy Long III, Sinclair Community College

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to the bayous of Louisiana. The final narrative, How doyou solve a problem like Fritz Haber? [6], discusses the German, Nobel-Prize-winning chemistand his discovery of a process to convert atmospheric nitrogen into liquid-ammonia fertilizer.Additional details regarding the narratives can be found in Brown et al. [ 7].The study was completed at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida,and included as participants senior students completing their capstone design projects inmechanical and aerospace engineering. The first phase of the project began with a pilot studythat sought to evaluate whether students were connecting with the narratives and, mostimportantly, able to draw connections between the narratives and

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Elise Barrella P.E., DfX Consulting LLC; Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Robin Dawn Anderson, James Madison University

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) to enhance process or final designSubstantive and structural stages of construct validation for the Sustainable Design Rubric werebased on a study of capstone design at James Madison University. Our goal was to determine theextent to which our theoretically and empirically defined rubric criteria were accessible tostudent audiences. We collected data during Spring 2018 from 51 junior engineering studentsfrom two course sections of capstone design. Students were given a homework assignment thatincluded evaluating their capstone projects with our draft rubric. Each student belonged to one offifteen capstone teams and was assigned to evaluate their projects against a subset of rubriccriteria (approximately two-thirds of the rubric’s 14 criteria

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chip W Ferguson, Western Carolina University; Paul M Yanik, Western Carolina University; Yanjun Yan, Western Carolina University; Sudhir Kaul, Western Carolina University

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met weekly duringthe Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 semesters. Project Based Leaning (PBL) courses associated withthis program were used to incorporate vertically integrated peer-to-peer mentorship groups andcoordinated student work on open-ended projects.Scholar Support ServicesThe initial weekly meetings were dedicated to introducing the program, establishing mentorshiprelationships between the different student groups, and assessing the students’ attitudes andpotential academic support needs. Scholar survey results showed several areas of pre-programanxiety, including academic, senior capstone completion, employment after graduation, andfinancial support for college. Presentations and workshops from various institutional supportservices were

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mei Zhang, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering; Amy B Chan Hilton, Florida State University

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web resources andpresented to the local community through outreach activities.  To provide students with the opportunity to participate in a more in-depth and hands-onnanotechnology learning experience, we had a pilot effort to sponsor senior design during theNanoCORE II project phase. This capstone project was consistent with ABET requirements andwas implemented in conjunction with the yearlong Capstone Senior Design course in the relateddepartments. This senior design team is a multidisciplinary team with three students fromIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering (IME) and two students from Electrical and ComputerEngineering (ECE). The team was co-mentored by faculty from these two departments, who alsoare principal investigators in the

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shane A. Brown P.E., Washington State University; Devlin B. Montfort, Washington State University; Cara J Poor P.E., Washington State University

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perceptions of the problem being solved, and theAdoption of a Capstone Assessment Instrument. Journal Page 23.299.3 potential efficacy of involving adopters in developmentof Engineering Education of innovationsTable  2.    Summary  of  preliminary  research  on  adoption  and  key  findings  B. Proposed WorkThe  first  step  in  this  project  will  be  a  summer  workshop  in  2013  to  bring  together  the  project  team  and  disseminate  a  first  round  of  curricular

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elise Barrella P.E., James Madison University; Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University

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encounter during capstone design and willencounter in the real-world. The second goal is to improve assessment of students’ abilities toapply sustainable engineering design concepts across different problems or design challenges.We hypothesize that with guided practice and feedback, engineering undergraduate students willbecome better at drawing upon and integrating diverse knowledge domains when they are facedwith new, complex problems during professional practice. Project work began in September2015 through the NSF Research in Engineering Education program.Cognitive flexibility theory (CFT)1 provides a basis for assessing and improving students’knowledge transfer and the connection-building required to adequately address sustainabilityproblems

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Schneider, University of Dayton; Erick S. Vasquez-Guardado, University of Dayton; Corinne H Mowrey, University of Dayton; Michael Moulton, University of Dayton; Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Matthew A Witenstein, University of Dayton

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interventions were developed: (i)the use of international engineering case studies ina quantitative analysis course,(ii) the intentional formation of multinational student design teamswithin a capstone design course, (iii) a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)research project in a transport phenomena course, and (iv) an engineering course coupled to acommunity-engaged project. The research aims to address the following questions: 1. To what extent can global competence be developed in engineering students through the use of the proposed global engagement interventions? 2. What are the relative strengths of each of the proposed global engagement interventions in developing global engineering competence?For this project, the

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul M. Yanik, Western Carolina University; Chip W Ferguson, Western Carolina University; Andrew Ritenour, Western Carolina University; Wendy Cagle; Scott Rowe, Western Carolina University

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the senior engineering capstone program which is a multidisciplinary, two-semester course sequence with projects sponsored by industrial partners. Within this role, he focuses on industrial outreach and the teaching and assessment of professional skills. Prior to joining WCU in 2018, he spent a decade in industry managing and developing innovative technologies across a broad spectrum of applications: SiC and GaN high voltage transistors for energy-efficient power conversion, radio frequency (RF) surface acoustic wave (SAW) filters for mobile phones, and flexible paper-like displays for e-readers. He holds 31 patents related to semiconductor devices and microfabrication and has published in IEEE and AIP journals and

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.); Yalcin Ertekin, Drexel University (Tech.); Radian G Belu, University of Alaska Anchorage

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presentations for students and other users to browse and download from any locationusing remote desktop and virtual lab server. The interactive components, simulations andlaboratory experiments are available for other universities and Drexel University-affiliatedcolleges. Online learning will be a channel for use of the developed materials and also theirdissemination.Curricular developments and integrative approachSenior Design Project Course Sequence Page 26.1009.3One of the most impacted courses by this project is Drexel University Engineering TechnologyMET 421/422/423 (Senior Project Design) - a sequence of three-quarter capstone project designcourses

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Susan Bobbitt Nolen, University of Washington; Debra M. Gilbuena, Oregon State University; Erno Lehtinen, University of Turku; Marja Vauras, Centre for Learning Research, University of Turku; Gavin Tierney, University of Washington; Simone E. Volet, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia

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SettingsWhile each team’s learning environment centers on project-based and simulation approaches toteaching complex disciplinary practices, they span educational levels (secondary,post-secondary) and scientific disciplines (environmental science, biology, engineering), andnational contexts. This diversity provides a unique opportunity to develop potentiallytransformative and generalizable new understandings of engagement and how to support it inSTEM. The secondary contexts include urban, poverty-impacted schools in the US and highschools in Finland with significant numbers of immigrant students. The post-secondary contextsare targeted at capstone students in professional programs (engineering and veterinary) who maybe at risk for disengagement from

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elise Barrella P.E., Wake Forest University ; Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Robin Anderson, James Madison University; Charles McDonald Cowan II, Wake Forest University; Justyn Daniel Girdner, James Madison University

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dimensionsBonus Category (consider project holistically)X1. Uses and/or creates innovation(s) in its specific field to achieve sustainabilityX2. Worked with experts from other disciplines to enhance process or final designThe rubric has been tested with students and their projects in order to iteratively completesubstantive validation and begin structural validation of the Sustainable Design construct,following the Benson model [2]. The first structural study was conducted in Spring 2018 with 51engineering student users for formative assessment of their preliminary capstone project work. Inaddition to individually scoring their projects, students also worked with their capstoneteammates to arrive at consensus scores for each criterion and provide

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Valerie A. Carr, San Jose State University; Maureen C. Smith, San Jose State University; Belle Wei, San Jose State University; Morris E. Jones Jr., San Jose State University

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teaches students to represent and analyze social science data and to use data structures and related algorithms to solve social science problems.● ENGR 122. Our Data Technology course introduces students to R with an emphasis on data analysis techniques, including basic statistics, linear and non-linear curve fitting, clustering, natural language processing, neural networks, databases, Structured Query Language (SQL), and data cleaning and management.● ENGR 195E. The final course involves a capstone project in which students apply their computing skills to solving problems or generating insights in their chosen area of study. Students work in self-selected teams and define their own project topics.The current paper focuses on survey data

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ann Saterbak, Rice University; Maria Oden, Rice University; Amber Lee Muscarello; Matthew Wettergreen, Rice University

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delivering the lecture content ofthe design process using videos and other media, class time is freed up for concrete progress on ateam’s specific project with support of faculty.The first goal of this project is to create educational materials to transfer the delivery of contentregarding the design process to an out-of-class environment and to develop in-class activelearning modules that clarify, elaborate, and expand on critical design process topics. Thesematerials will be widely available for others to use.Currently, limited research exists on the impact of the flipped classroom model in engineering,mathematics, or science courses at the university level. Thus, the second goal of this project is toanswer the engineering education research

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University; Prateek Shekhar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Jeff Knowles, Oregon State University; Stephanie Adams, Oregon State University

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in the School of Applied Engineering and Technology at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas - Austin, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and a BS in Electronics and Communication Engineering from India. Dr. Shekhar also holds a Graduate Certificate in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. Prior to his current appointment, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher and Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Michigan. He is the recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Postdoctoral Researcher Award at the University of Michigan; and serves as a PI/Co-PI on multiple projects funded by the National

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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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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=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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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pong P. Chu, Cleveland State University; Chansu Yu, Cleveland State University; Karla R Hamlen, Cleveland State University

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four levels:  Level 1: Freshman engineering.  Level 2: Basic digital system.  Level 3: Advanced digital system without a processor.  Level 4: Advanced digital system with a processor.  Level 5: Capstone projects. The level 1 is for freshman engineering students. Many schools now have an “introductionto engineering’’ course for the new engineering students. It is usually a project-oriented courseto introduce the basic engineering concepts and practices. The level 2 corresponds to the first digital system course in the curriculum, which covers thecombinational circuits, sequential circuits, and FSM 17. Unlike the first digital system course, there is no single “standard” follow-up course. Theadvanced topics

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chip W. Ferguson, Western Carolina University; Yanjun Yan, Western Carolina University; Sudhir Kaul, Western Carolina University; Paul M. Yanik, Western Carolina University

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low-tech automated controlsystems, and PBL small group discussions during the weekly group meetings. There are fivesuch courses at our institution – ENGR 199 (freshman level), ENGR 200 (sophomore level),ENGR 350 (junior level), and ENGR 400/450 (senior level capstone). In the SPIRIT meetings,ENGR 199 participants were paired with ENGR 350 participants, while ENGR 200 participantswere paired with ENGR 400/450 participants. However, group work and project managementdiscussions involved participants from each grade level. Groups were asked to record theminutes of their discussions and respond to several pre-prepared discussion prompts.During the semester-long projects, ENGR 350 participants were required to deliver an alphaprototype and to

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University; Bimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M University; Norma Perez, Houston Community College

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improvement.AcknowledgementThis material is supported by the National Science Foundation under DUE Grant Numbers 1501952and 1501938. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations presented are those of theauthors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References[1] Wang, J., Fang, A. & Johnson, M., (2008). Enhancing and assessing life long learning skills through capstone projects. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings. Pittsburgh, PA, 2008-324.[2] Shuman, L.J., Besterfield-Sacre, M. & Mcgourty, J., (2005). The abet "professional skills" — can they be taught? Can they be assessed? Journal of Engineering Education, 94 (1), 41-55.[3] Earnest, J., (2005). Abet

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohamed Elzomor, Arizona State University; Kristen Parrish, Arizona State University; Chelsea Mann, Arizona State University

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, Construction Industry Institute, Austin, TX Available at https://http://www.construction-institute.org/scriptcontent/rtc2008_ac1.pdf. 11 pp. [3] Dancz, C., Ketchman, K., Burke, R., Hottle, T., Parrish, K., Bilec, M., & Landis, A,. (2016). Utilizing Civil Engineering Senior Design Capstone Projects to Evaluate Students Sustainability Education Across Engineering Education. Manuscript submitted for publication [4] Brundiers, K., and Wiek, A. (2011). “Educating Students in Real-world Sustainability Research -- Vision and Implementation.” Innovative Higher Education, 36(2), 107-124. 10.1007/s10755-010-9161-9. [5] Gibson, G. E., & Hamilton, M. R. (1994). Analysis of pre-project planning effort and success variables for

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Lawrence Eric Meyer Jr., Miami Dade College; Elodie Billionniere, Miami Dade College

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teaching cloud technologies. The corecurriculum designed for the cloud literacy initiative leveraged an existing pathway for an associatedegree in networking technology, and then partially pulled classes from the design of thebachelor’s in information systems technology degree. The classes identified, used current offeringsacross our programs and included a focus on the supporting infrastructure of cloud systems:Databases, Linux OS, and Networking. With these three foundational classes that were cloudified,three cloud-focused courses based on industry certifications were developed: Cloud Essentials forAWS Cloud Practitioner and Cloud Infrastructure and Services for AWS Solutions Architectcertifications with a capstone class completing the academic

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald Plumlee, Boise State University; Steven W. Villachica, Boise State University; Linda Huglin, Boise State University; Shannon Rist, Boise State University

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to Practice (E2R2P): NSF Program: EEC Division of Engineering Education and Centers Grant 1037808 Our effort addresses the question: How can successes in engineering education researchtranslate into widespread instructional practice? Published research has provided a robust set ofdocumented tools and techniques for transforming individual engineering courses fromtraditional lecture-based formats to those that emphasize project- and problem-based learning[1].These new formats support transfer of learned skills to subsequent courses and the workplace.Unfortunately, the mere availability of such research has not resulted in its widespread adoptionacross engineering programs. The pace of adoption has

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University; Amarnath Banerjee, Texas A&M University; Bimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M University; Rutwik Dehade, Texas A&M University; Glen Miller

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Texas A&M UniversityAbstractThis paper presents the progress made in the first two years of a five-year NSF ER2 (Ethical andResponsible Research) project on ethical and responsible research and practices in science andengineering undertaken at a large public university in the southwestern United States. Overallobjectives of the project include: 1) conduct a survey of incoming freshmen college students toassess their ethical research competency and self-efficacy at the beginning of their tertiaryeducation and during their senior-level capstone course; 2) evaluate the ethical researchcompetency and self-efficacy of university students and identify any significantly contributingfactors to develop an intervention plan to improve their ethical

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Azadeh Bolhari, University of Colorado Boulder; Angela R Bielefeldt P.E., University of Colorado Boulder

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Paper ID #42590Board 316: Innovation Self-Efficacy: Empowering Environmental EngineeringStudents to InnovateDr. Azadeh Bolhari, University of Colorado Boulder Dr. Bolhari is a professor of environmental engineering in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her teaching focuses on fate and transport of contaminants, capstone design and aqueous chemistry. Dr. Bolhari is passionate about broadening participation in engineering through community-based participatory action research. Her research interests explore the boundaries of engineering and social

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zhiqiang Wu, Wright State University; Bin Wang, Wright State University; Chi-Hao Cheng, Miami University; Deng Cao, Central State University; Ashraf Yaseen

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the first nationwide example of evolvablesoftware defined radio (SDR) based laboratories for three existing undergraduate courses. Theselaboratories have been well received by the students, and have significantly improved thelearning outcomes of such courses. Furthermore, these labs have attracted students to thesecourses: the enrollment of these courses has increased drastically after the introduction of theselabs. Based on our success of this project, we are developing a suite of experiments andlaboratories into a sequence of courses (ranging from freshmen year introductory course tosenior year elective courses and capstone design projects) that vertically integrates the SDRbased experiment approach in this NSF TUES type II project. We are