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New Trends in CHE Education I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Dahm, Rowan University; William Riddell, Rowan University

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Chemical Engineering

Page 14.1205.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 THE EFFECT OF IMPROVEMENTS IN SOPHOMORE DESIGN INSTRUCTION ON PERFORMANCE IN SUBSEQUENT COURSE OFFERINGSAbstractThe chemical engineering curriculum at Rowan University includes a team-taught,multidisciplinary sophomore course sequence called Sophomore Engineering Clinic I and II,intended to teach engineering design and technical communication. Prior to 2005, SophomoreClinic I featured a semester-long design project. The faculty team made substantial changes tothe course in the Fall of 2005 to address various shortcomings in student achievement of thecourse goals. The new course design featured a 4-week project intended to introduce students tothe

Conference Session

Research Experiences at Two-year Colleges

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Klaus Bartels, San Antonio College; Steven F Lewis, San Antonio College/Alamo Colleges

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

engineering summer programs at SAC, including instructor for Robotics Camps for 3rd to 5th graders (2012 - 2014), and instructor/coordinator for the Early Development of General Engineering program for high school students (2007 - 2015). Since 2011 he has also served as faculty adviser for numerous undergraduate research projects involving solar and hydrogen fuel cell technologies at SAC.Mr. Steven F Lewis, San Antonio College/Alamo Colleges Steven Lewis served as a training manager for Lockheed and Raytheon corporations around the world and spent a total of 27 years primarily in Colombia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Mexico. He assumed the leadership role at the Service, Trade, and Industry Center of Alamo Colleges/San Antonio

Conference Session

Embedded Systems & Cybersecurity for ECE

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shiny Abraham, Seattle University; Mehmet Vurkaç, Seattle University; Agnieszka Miguel, Seattle University; Nhan K. Nguyen, Seattle University; Olsen John Salgado Ong, Seattle University

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Electrical and Computer

programs prepare graduates in bridging theskills-gap.This paper documents the process of integrating IoT-based activities in an Embedded Systemscourse at Seattle University, for two consecutive years. In the first iteration, the course included atwo-week long project that had students work in teams of two to build a voice-based controlsystem using custom Alexa skills, in other words, a DIY Amazon Alexa device for voice-controlled robots. Over the duration of this project, students encountered concepts related towireless communication, computer networking, cloud computing, and network security, amongmany others. In the second iteration, computer vision and image processing, in addition to theabove-mentioned concepts were used to implement a hand

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Hernandez, California State University Los Angeles; Pearl Chen, California State University, Los Angeles; Christine C. Clemmons, California State University, Los Angeles; Jianyu Jane Dong, California State University, Los Angeles

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

, California State University, Los Angeles Jianyu Dong is a professor in electrical and computer engineering at CSULA. Her area of expertise is video compression/communication, multimedia networks, QoS, etc. As the PI of the NSF CCLI Project entitled ”Enhancing undergraduate computer networking curriculum using remote project-based learn- ing,” she works closely with colleagues from computer science to redesign the network curriculum to integrate project-based and inquiry-based learning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Addressing the Learning Needs of Minority Students in Engineering through Participatory DesignAbstractThis paper provides

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INDUSTRY DAY SESSION: CMC PANEL SESSION ONE

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert B. Rhoads, Ohio State University; Jacob T Allenstein, Ohio State University; Krista M. Kecskemety, Ohio State University; Clifford A Whitfield, Ohio State University

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Corporate Member Council

programs aredifficult to create without college wide support and structure to foster this growth.7The Ohio State University (OSU) offers students, through its Multidisciplinary CapstoneProgram (MDC), a broad range of opportunities for both engineering and non-engineeringstudents to work directly with industry personnel on company-sponsored product and processdesign projects. OSU provides students an opportunity to apply their academics and professionaland practical skills to real-world problems as a member of a multidisciplinary team. Theprogram is a two-semester project design sequence. Based on the project scope, the coordinatorsform teams and assign a faculty advisor to ensure project success. The sponsor is vested in theprogram by assigning an

Conference Session

Microcontrollers, Programming, and Data Acquisition

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James A. Mynderse, Lawrence Technological University; Jeff Shelton, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

culminating in the collaborative design and fabrication ofan autonomous vehicle. Students were provided a realistic design scenario early in the course,with subsequent lecture and laboratory activities tying directly to the proposed problem.Following the submission of student design work, and demonstration of their mechatronicdevices, student learning outcomes were assessed both indirectly and directly. Indirectassessment implied both the course content and collaborative design project contributed tostudent learning. Direct assessment of student designs showed improvement from previoussemesters.IntroductionLawrence Technological University (Lawrence Tech) is engaged in a seven-year process toincorporate active and collaborative learning (ACL) and

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Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 3 – Course and Program Outcomes

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zachary David Asher, Colorado State University; Nicole L Ramo, Colorado State University; Thomas H. Bradley, Colorado State University

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Diversity

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Systems Engineering

exposure to, and retention of, systems engineering principles improveslearning outcomes in an multidisciplinary graduate level course is assessed. Students enrolled in ahybrid electric vehicle powertrains course were exposed to systems engineering principlesthrough a dedicated lecture focused on team coordination and management of complexengineering systems in the context of the team-based course capstone project. Students wereencouraged to employ systems engineering principles across all aspects of the course (e.g.homework completion and exam preparation) with student collaboration a requirement for theproject. Student surveys were completed immediately following the introductory lecture, whichquantify students’ self-assessed increase in system

Conference Session

Designing and Implementing Leadership Development Experiences for Engineering Students

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Molly H. Goldstein, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Joe Bradley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development

learning, inquiry-based laboratory instruction, and any ini- tiative that empowers students to do hands-on learning. Additional service interests include teaching and leadership training for graduate students, enhancing communication education for undergraduate en- gineering students, developing evidence-based design project team formation strategies, and improving engineering design curricula.Dr. Molly H Goldstein, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Molly H. Goldstein is an engineering design educator and researcher at University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign. She previously worked as an environmental engineer specializing in air quality influencing her focus in engineering design with environmental

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Outstanding Contributions to ME

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Corder, Lamar University; Jiang Zhou, Lamar University; Kendrick Aung, Lamar University

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Mechanical Engineering

and principles that will enable them tobecome contributing members of their social and professional communities, these tools includebasic science, mathematics, engineering science, and discipline-specific engineering principles.Many engineering programs provide exposure to real-world design challenges for their studentsbefore graduation. This paper discusses a program suitable for mechanical engineering seniordesign projects in support of the U.S. space program, specifically NASA, Johnson Space Center,Houston, Texas.The Texas Space Grant Consortium (“TSGC”) sponsors the TSGC DESIGN CHALLENGE, aunique experience for undergraduate students to propose, design and fabricate a solution to atopic of importance to NASA and its mission. After

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Teaching Design in Manufacturing Curriculum I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University; Ronald Earley, Miami University

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Manufacturing

Catalog Course DescriptionMPC 497-498 Senior Design Project (2, 2): Student teams conduct major open-endedresearch and design projects. Elements of the design process including establishment ofobjectives, synthesis, analysis, and evaluation are integral parts. Real-world constraintssuch as economical and societal factors, marketability, ergonomics, safety, aesthetics,and ethics are also integral parts. Page 12.291.3497: feasibility studies performed;498: implementation, testing, and production of design. Includes guest lecturers, teampresentations, team building sessions, team meetings, and guided discussions relating todesign. The course consists of

Conference Session

How Are We Preparing Our Students for the 21st Century Workforce?

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David R. Mikesell P.E., Ohio Northern University; David R. Sawyers Jr., Ohio Northern University; Jed E. Marquart, Ohio Northern University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

, residential institution in the Midwest. At the same time, these competitions havecome to play an important role in achieving the educational objectives of the department. Thispaper will review several such competitions, evaluate the degree to which they contribute to theeducational experience of the students, and discuss some of the advantages and limitations ofthese activities.While traditional lectures, tutorials, and structured assignments are still essential to providing thefoundation for an understanding of engineering science and the skills required to solve math- andphysics-based problems, many of the abilities required by accrediting bodies and potentialemployers are difficult to achieve using these methods. Senior capstone projects and

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Global Engineering Models: Curriculum Development, Improvements, and Partnerships

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt M. DeGoede, Elizabethtown College; Momodou Jain

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International

AC 2012-3280: DEVELOPING AN ENGINEERING CURRICULUM AT ADEVELOPING UNIVERSITY IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRYDr. Kurt M. DeGoede, Elizabethtown College Kurt DeGoede is Associate Professor of engineering and physics, Elizabethtown College. DeGoede is currently working on developing a collaborative study abroad program in West Africa built around a design course based in service engineering. Many of these projects include work with renewable energy systems. His research interests are in the areas of biomechanics and the modeling of dynamic systems. Current projects include collaborative work with faculty and students in occupational therapy and an orthopedic hand surgeon, developing clinical instruments for conducting therapy

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Service Learning and Societal Issues in the First Year

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Savilonis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; David Spanagel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kristin Wobbe, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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First-Year Programs

been at WPI since 1995. Email kwobbe@wpi.edu; phone 508-831-5375. Page 15.472.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Engaging Students with Great ProblemsAbstractWPI’s Great Problems Seminars were designed to bring first year engineering students intomeaningful contact with current events, societal problems, and human needs. Key learningobjectives include: introducing project team work and developing writing and presentation skills.Each seminar has focused on a large global issue: food and hunger, energy and its utilization,health and healthcare delivery, the NAE Grand Challenges. Seminars are co-taught by

Conference Session

Secondary (6-12) Outreach

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ethan Alexander Peritz, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Morgan M Hynes, Arizona State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Research Assistant Professor in the Education De- partment and Education Research Program Directorat the Center of Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts University. Hynesreceived his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2001 and his Ph.D. inEngi- neering Education in 2009 (both degrees at Tufts University). Inhis current positions, Hynes serves as PI and Co-PI on a number offunded research projects investigating engineering education in theK-12 and college settings. He is particularly interested in howstudents and teachers engage in and reflect upon the engineering designprocess. His research includes investigating how teachers conceptualizeand teach and how students engage in engineering through in- depth case study

Collection

2024 CIEC

Authors

Otilia Popescu; Dimitrie Popescu; Murat Kuzlu

signal degradation, dead spots, and unreliableconnectivity. This paper presents the research work conducted by a team of undergraduatestudents from Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Electrical EngineeringTechnology (EET) majors. The work was a partnership between Old Dominion Universityengineering programs and Booz Allen Hamilton, through a sponsored project. The studentsinvestigated the available software modeling options and settled on using the ALTAIR softwaresuite. The layout of the USS Wisconsin, which is open to the public through the NauticusMuseum and Maritime Discovery Center in Norfolk, was modeled and the propagationsimulation results were compared with real measurements performed on the ship. Studentsinvestigated the

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Roy T.R. McGrann

landing gear design and analysis project. Acomparison of outcomes is made of results for semesters in which the videos were used withoutaccompanying lectures with other semesters in traditional lecture format. The changes to the coursethat were adopted based on the assessment are presented. The assessment procedure is used to improvethe quality of the course and to satisfy ABET requirements. It is proposed that this assessmentprocedure using marker problems can be used in other design courses.IntroductionThe ability to design components and systems is recognized as one of the key characteristics definingan engineer. Design is a “systematic, intelligent process in which designers generate, evaluate andspecify concepts for devices, systems, or

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Roy T.R. McGrann

landing gear design and analysis project. Acomparison of outcomes is made of results for semesters in which the videos were used withoutaccompanying lectures with other semesters in traditional lecture format. The changes to the coursethat were adopted based on the assessment are presented. The assessment procedure is used to improvethe quality of the course and to satisfy ABET requirements. It is proposed that this assessmentprocedure using marker problems can be used in other design courses.IntroductionThe ability to design components and systems is recognized as one of the key characteristics definingan engineer. Design is a “systematic, intelligent process in which designers generate, evaluate andspecify concepts for devices, systems, or

Collection

2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Roy T.R. McGrann

landing gear design and analysis project. Acomparison of outcomes is made of results for semesters in which the videos were used withoutaccompanying lectures with other semesters in traditional lecture format. The changes to the coursethat were adopted based on the assessment are presented. The assessment procedure is used to improvethe quality of the course and to satisfy ABET requirements. It is proposed that this assessmentprocedure using marker problems can be used in other design courses.IntroductionThe ability to design components and systems is recognized as one of the key characteristics definingan engineer. Design is a “systematic, intelligent process in which designers generate, evaluate andspecify concepts for devices, systems, or

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Carol Shubin, California State University Northridge

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #32916NSF Data Science Program with Career Support and Connections to Indus-tryDr. Carol Shubin, California State University Northridge Carol Shubin is a professor of mathematics at CSUN and the PI of NSF Data Science Program with Career Support and Connections to Industry. She is interested in partnering with other universities that want to start a data science program. She has been the PI or co-PI in several other STEM educational projects funded by the NSF or NASA and served as a Fulbright Scholar in Rwanda. American c Society for Engineering

Collection

2011 North Midwest Section

Authors

Mitchell Cornelius; Bidhan Roy; Osama Jadaan

employingvaluation tools and benefit-cost analysis (among many others) to study the financial feasibility ofengineering projects. Unfortunately, for projects involving nanotechnology, the finances aremainly speculative since commercial applications of nanotechnology are mainly at its infancy.H , a a a (SME ) a a aproducts and listed at NASDAQ. This is because such companies would have their financialstatements freely available in the internet. The module consists of designing sample valuation b SME a a .W Fa 2011,expected that it shall help students understand a financial statement, the future sway ofnanotechnology

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First-year Programs: Teams and Teamwork

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Emma Tevaarwerk DeCosta, Northwestern University; Kathleen Carmichael, Northwestern University; Lisa M. Davidson, Northwestern University; Ordel Brown, Northwestern University; Elise Gruneisen, Northwestern University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

exclusion from high-profile team roles [5-9].Recent research indicates that first-year, team-based design courses represent a uniqueopportunity to address such disparities and providing early collaborative learning experiencessupports the success of students from underrepresented groups in engineering [10-13]. Whilelectures and readings may provide teams with basic tools for team and project management,these correlate team success with the creation of a high-quality final design [14]. Such tools mayinadvertently cue students to distribute work according to stereotypical social roles in the beliefthat by having team members “play to their strengths,” they are doing what is best for the team[15]. Such task distribution may limit new learning across

Collection

2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

William J. Sproule; William H. Leder

is offeredat Michigan Tech University. It was developed for juniors, seniors, and graduate studentsand was originally planned for civil and environmental engineers, but engineeringstudents from other disciplines have taken the course. The course has been offered in thespring semester (January – April) two times – 18 students enrolled in the first year and 30students enrolled in the second year. The course has been team taught by two instructorswho, between them, bring substantial consulting, government service, university teachingand research experience to the classroom. This paper describes the topics covered in thecourse, major projects and assignments, special features, and resources.Course TopicsThe primary objective for the course was

Conference Session

Technical Session V

Collection

2018 FYEE Conference

Authors

James R McCusker PhD, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Aaron Carpenter, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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FYEE Conference Sessions

sections. In addition, details of theorder to address this deficiency, synthesized design evolution of this course as well as the description of thechallenges are integrated into a first-year engineering current curriculum are described in [3].design course through a sudden design change whilemaintaining tight deadlines. The effectiveness of this In Introduction to Engineering Design at Wentworth Instituteapproach is assessed by evaluating the quality of student of Technology, all first-year engineering students work indesign notes before and after the project-switch exercise. teams of 3 to 4 students to develop a solution to a societalStudent feedback is also solicited to allow for self- need

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2019 CIEC

Authors

Paul McPherson; Kyle Reiter

Session ETD 315 Providing Students with Practical Experience in Quality Control Through Industry Partnerships Paul McPherson and Kyle Reiter Purdue UniversityAbstractIn an economic climate where manufacturing industries are seeking individuals that have bothhigher education and practical hands on experience, now is the time for faculty members to seekout and embrace partnerships with industry that bring active learning projects inside theclassroom. At Purdue University, this is exactly what is being done in the Quality forManufacturing course, where for

Conference Session

Teaching Engineering and Public Policy

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Dunn, University of Maine; Kenneth Nichols, University of Maine

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Engineering and Public Policy

administration and civil engineering fields are alwaysworking together in practice. Public administration professionals are decision makers whoprovide the long-term plan and vision for development within federal, state, and local levels. Asdecision makers, these professionals decide which projects are viable. Engineering professionalsdesign, analyze, and execute planned projects. These professionals take the vision to a realitythat ultimately the public uses and the public administration professional needs to maintain. Though public administration and engineering professionals work together, they oftenmisunderstand one another’s roles. The public administration professional works within a publicpolicymaking process and regulatory sphere that

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibibia Dabipi, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Christopher Hartman, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; James B. Burrows-Mcelwain, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

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Design in Engineering Education

) platform. The primary design requirement of the projectwas the need for the parachute system to be able to deploy in the event ofcommunications malfunction, loss of control or any other critical failure that couldimpact the safety of persons or property on the ground. Project requirements stipulatedthat the design focused primarily on safe, successful recovery of the given airframe.Team members were given the opportunity to suggest alternative materials or changes indesign that may yield increased performance benefits for future prototypes.Students utilized a model Piper Cub and were able to meet the minimum designspecifications articulated by the customers. The aircraft would fly with a suitable centerof gravity (CG) and could manually deploy the

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessie Marshall Zarazaga, SMU Lyle School of Engineering; Andrew N Quicksall

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, her research spans education and practice, working on the integration of community research into project based learning. Her work overlaps areas of GIS mapping, global sustainable urbanism, design and creativity.Dr. Andrew N Quicksall c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Deep Observation: Geo-Spatial Mapping as a Strategy for Site-Engagement and Problem-DesignAbstractWhile project-based learning powerfully brings students into real world economic andenvironmental contexts, a subject-oriented approach to such work means that they are often ableto remain aloof from real stakeholder engagement and participation, even when working on alocal site [1]. Given

Conference Session

Engineering Design Graphics Division Technical Session 2 - Design & Manufacturing Topics

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raghu Pucha, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kata Dosa, Georgia Institute of Technology; Meltem Alemdar, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sunni Haag Newton, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Engineering Design Graphics

four weeks ofsketching and eleven weeks of three-dimensional, constraint-based, solid modeling. In2002, the course was revised using the “backward design” approach [2] with formativeand summative assessments in lecture and lab activities. In later years project-based andlearning-centered instructional approaches with creative ideation and sketching [3] wereintroduced. Such approaches follow a natural cycle of Kolb’s learning model [4], whichincludes abstract conceptualization, active experimentation / application, concreteexperience, and reflective observation. Our university has recently launched a campus-wide academic initiative aimed at preparing undergraduate students in all engineeringmajors to use their disciplinary knowledge and skills

Conference Session

Eco-Car Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shawn Waterman

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Eco-Car Poster Session

Paper ID #14366Integration of Simulation Tools in Manufacturing Processes CourseShawn Waterman Page 26.1003.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015Group Dynamics and Project Management in EcoCAR 3 Shawn Waterman Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Patrick Currier Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University John Longshore Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Page 26.1003.2 Group Dynamics and Project Management in EcoCAR

Conference Session

Make It!

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lauren Jatana Vathje , University of Calgary; Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary; Bob Brennan, University of Calgary

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Diversity

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Manufacturing

School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada. She teaches graphical, written and oral communi- cation in their first Engineering Design and Communication course taught to all 650 incoming engineering students. With co-editors Tom McKeag (San Francisco) and Norbert Hoeller (Toronto) she co-founded and designs ZQ, an online journal to provide a platform to showcase the nexus of science and design using case studies, news and articles (zqjournal.org). As an instructor, she was one of the recipients of The Allan Blizzard Award, a Canadian national teaching award for collaborative projects that improve student learning in 2004. In 2005, she was one of the recipients of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers