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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Christine E King, University of California, Irvine

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Diversity

Industry Engagement versus Faculty Mentorship in Engineering Senior Capstone Design CoursesAbstract:The senior design capstone course is an important experience for engineering undergraduatestudents. This course prepares students for industry by having students solve open-ended real-world problems. During the course, a student team defines a problem, plans an approach,develops a solution, and validates their solution, which culminates in oral and writtendissemination. Typically, undergraduate programs have provided students with facultymentors to develop a solution for a specific project. In order for projects and teams to besuccessful, the mentors must provide invaluable support, collaboration, and interest in

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Software Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Cecilia La Place, Arizona State University; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University

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Software Engineering Division

students in this opportunistically structured program, hackathonspresent a potentially familiar environment though shorter in duration. The projects developed ineach capstone and hackathons will allow for an exploration into a selection of skillsets softwareengineers bring to hackathons, and the processes used in their projects both consciously andunconsciously.This work will inspire a series of research following knowledge transfer within hackathons asmore domains such as engineering, math, science, and art join the event and shape developmentprocesses. Though motivational studies on hackathons are thorough, considering how thesemotivations play into the projects developed at hackathons may lend to a deeper understandingof student experiences

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Beyond the Capstone: Integrating Authentic Experiences that Promote Learning and Excitement

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jennifer Retherford P.E., The University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Beth Lin Hartmann, Iowa State University; Rania Al-Hammoud P.Eng., University of Waterloo; George A Hunt P.E., University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Civil Engineering

Paper ID #30528Civil Engineering Capstone Inventory: Standards of Practice & The ASCEBody of KnowledgeDr. Jennifer Retherford P.E., The University of Tennessee at Knoxville Dr. Retherford is an alumna of the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and received her graduate degrees from Vanderbilt University. She currently teaches a variety of courses supporting the department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Tennessee. Among many structural engineer- ing courses, Dr. Retherford also manages the Senior Design Project course for all undergraduate civil & environmental engineering seniors.Dr

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Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 5

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M. Scott Stanford P.E., United States Air Force Academy; Joel Sloan P.E., United States Air Force Academy; James B. Pocock, United States Air Force Academy; M. Mark Russell P.E., DFCE

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Diversity

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Construction Engineering

Education, 2020 A Construction Management Competition as the Basis of a Capstone Culminating EventCulminating design events serve as a hallmark of most undergraduate engineering programs.This paper presents a case study of a novel approach to conduct a compressed-timeframeculminating event just prior to graduation. The event is designed to leverage best practices inliterature related to team-building, competitions, student leadership, real-project case studies, andhigh-impact practices. The culminating event takes place at the conclusion of a two-semestercapstone sequence. In the middle of this two-semester sequence, 12 students from a class ofroughly 40-50 participate in the intercollegiate Associated Schools of

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Mary Kay Camarillo P.E., University of the Pacific; Eileen Kogl Camfield, University of California at Merced

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Paper ID #29388Revising Roles: Enhancing an Engineering Capstone Course to ImproveOutcomes for WomenMary Kay Camarillo P.E., University of the Pacific Mary Kay Camarillo is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of the Pacific in Stockton. She specializes in water treatment and in domestic and industrial waste treatment. Dr. Camar- illo’s research includes development of biomass energy projects for agricultural wastes and treatability assessments for oilfield produced water. She focuses on environmental problems in California. Dr. Ca- marillo earned her Ph.D. at UC Davis and spent many years in

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Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division Technical Session 2

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Joshua Pierson, University of Georgia; John M. Mativo, University of Georgia; Edwin Chiuz, University of Georgia; Mark Trudgen, University of Georgia; Christopher Herring, University of Georgia

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

(UGA) College of Engineering Capstone Syllabus, acapstone is a “two-semester sequence course that is project based and focused on problemframing, stakeholder analysis, concept generation, and project management skills.” The goal “isto review concepts in the design process and tools in design methodology with a focus onengineering systems development cycle. Students working in multidisciplinary teams areassigned to design problems that are open-ended, requiring creativity and involving iterativesolutions.” It continues to state that “Design systems will work independently with a facultymentor and adopts the design that can be rapid prototyped or manufactured and evaluated againstthe design requirements. Student teams present their design

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Beyond the Capstone: Integrating Authentic Experiences that Promote Learning and Excitement

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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

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Civil Engineering

differences between groups.This paper reports the outcomes of using the Sustainable Design Rubric as a formativeassessment in a civil engineering capstone design course at a regional, teaching-focusedinstitution in the Southeast. The assignment was given to 35 students across 7 teams. First,students individually scored their projects for a subset of the criteria - teams divided up criteriaamongst their members so that at least two people would score each criterion. Next, studentsdiscussed their individual responses with team members to arrive at a set of consensus scores,with written justifications, for all 14 criteria. We reviewed students’ responses forappropriateness of scores and quality written justifications as part of the structural and

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New Media for Ethics Education

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Joshua Gargac, University of Mount Union

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Engineering Ethics

Paper ID #31052Let’s get ethical: Incorporating ”The Office” and engaging practicesinto an ethics module for capstone studentsDr. Joshua Gargac, University of Mount Union Joshua Gargac is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Mount Union in Alliance, OH, where he advises the mechanical engineering senior capstone projects and SAE Baja team. In addition, Dr. Gargac teaches first-year engineering courses, computer-aided design, kinematics and dynamics of machinery, design of machine elements, and manufacturing science. He received his BSME from Ohio Northern University and a PhD in

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Dynamics I

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Kamyar Ghavam, University of Waterloo; Homeyra Pourmohammadali, University of Waterloo; Lucas Botelho, University of Waterloo

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Mechanical Engineering

towards the newer students [8].Motivation: It has been shown that students felt improvement in communication and problem-solving skills when provided with the opportunity to work with industry partners [9]. If it isassumed that this was mostly due to their ability to work with more experienced individuals andto benefit from more senior perspectives, the effort in introducing a cross-cohort projectmay demonstrate the same benefits albeit to a lesser extent since the difference in experience issignificantly smaller. Lu et al. in 2016 developed a project which started in 2012 and continuedto the date of publishing which allowed over 50 undergraduate students from many differentcohorts to contribute on a capstone project, sometimes over several years

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Software Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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Gregory Kulczycki, Virginia Tech; Steven Atkinson, Virginia Tech

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Software Engineering Division

we are in for a career of stressful project rewrites, but it does mean if we want to keep thecourse current, we will have to find a pace of making changes that we can maintain indefinitely,reminiscent of one the principles of agile development: Agile processes promote sustainabledevelopment. [Everyone] should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely. [4].Related WorkWeb-development projects – especially those involving the development of small e-commerceweb sites – are popular in software engineering education. They work well with project-basedlearning [5] and agile methods [6]. They are well-suited for courses where industry collaborationor a real-world feel is desired [7][8], especially in capstone projects [9]. We found that

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: The Art of Education

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Nelson Fumo, University of Texas at Tyler

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Mechanical Engineering

inthe engineering curriculum, the projects were completed in single classes.In this study, a PBL approach is implemented by developing projects in a series of requiredcourses in a Mechanical Engineering curriculum. The projects assigned in each course are relatedand planned to build up the knowledge and skills needed to develop a successful senior designproject or capstone project. In implementing the approach, the instructor identifies the topic orproblem to be proposed as a senior design project. In the first of the sequential courses, anexperimental measurements laboratory course, a project is assigned regarding a sensor that couldbe used in the senior design project. In the second of the sequential courses, a thermal-fluidslaboratory course

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Engineering Design Graphics Division Technical Session 4

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Eric Leonhardt, Western Washington University

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Engineering Design Graphics

. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Conceptual Cylinder Head CAD Project for AssessmentAbstractA cylinder head design project is used to assess 3D prismatic modeling skills during a capstonecourse sequence. The capstone course sequence features a large, multi-year project that may nothave 3D modeling components of similar complexity for all students. The project ensures thatall students are assessed using a similar project. The geometric model is designed to support thecreation of a physical prototype that may be used for airflow development models. Models areprinted using filament deposition printing techniques. The solid model also supports the use ofvirtual airflow analysis using computational fluid dynamics

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Perspectives and Evaluation of Engineering Design Education

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Sara Willner-Giwerc, Tufts University; Kristen B. Wendell, Tufts University; Chris Buergin Rogers, Tufts University; Ethan E. Danahy, Tufts University; Isabella Stuopis, Tufts University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

Classroom,” ​LEGO Engineering,​ 2014. [Online]. Available: http://www.legoengineering.com/learning-stem-in-the-classroom/.[6] “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, 2020 – 2021,” ​abet.org​, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/criteria-for-accrediting-engineering-progr ams-2020-2021/. [Accessed: 21-Jan-2020].[7] B. I. Hyman, “From Capstone to Cornerstone: A New Paradigm for Design Education,” ​Int. J. Eng. Educ.,​ vol. 17, no. 4–5, pp. 416–420, 2001.[8] R. N. Savage, K. C. Chen, and L. Vanasupa, “Integrating Project-based Learning throughout the Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum,” vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 15–27, 2007.[9] C. M. Kellett, “A project-based learning

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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Roy Issa; Kenneth R. Leitch; Byungik Chang P.E.

Implementing Sustainability with a Solar Distillation Project Roy Issa1, Kenneth Leitch1 and Byungik Chang2 1 West Texas A&M University/ 2University of New HavenAbstractStudents in the mechanical and civil engineering programs at West Texas A&M University areexposed to sustainability in a wide variety of required courses in thefreshman through seniorlevel coursework. The projects in these courses are carefully selected to provide an in-depthunderstanding of sustainability through analytical and experimental studies. In thermal-fluiddesign, students were asked to build an environmentally friendly and energy efficient systemforthe distillation of

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Design Teams 2

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jeanne M. Homer, Oklahoma State University; James Beckstrom, Oklahoma State University; Tom Elliott Spector, Oklahoma State University; John J. Phillips, Oklahoma State University; Khaled Mansy, Oklahoma State University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #31251Interdisciplinary Design Project Teams: Structuring an ImpactfulExperienceProf. Jeanne M Homer, Oklahoma State University Professor Homer received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her Master of Architecture from Arizona State University in Tempe. She has been a practicing ar- chitect in Chicago, Phoenix, and Oklahoma. While she was practicing, she taught at the Art Institute of Chicago and at Arizona State University before teaching in Stillwater full time for 17 years. Profes- sor Homer received the 2013 International Education Faculty Excellence Award, the

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Design Methodologies 2

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Klaus Castrén, Aalto University; Sine Celik, Aalto University; Tua A. Björklund, Aalto University Design Factory; Niina Nurmi, Aalto University, School of Business

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

can lead to mismatches in expectations as wellas missed opportunities for fruitful collaboration.This paper explores the perceived value of participating as an industry-sponsor tomultidisciplinary engineering design capstone courses. Four industry partners wereinterviewed in the beginning, middle and end of two project-based courses (and one industrypartner once) to track what value they expected from the course and what value theyperceived to be delivered. The thirteen in-depth interviews averaged 50 minutes, were audio-recorded and transcribed for analysis.Based on the qualitative analysis, the motivation to take part as a sponsor in these project-based courses initially centered around new innovative products. However, there was acontinuum

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Capstone and Design

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jamie Szwalek, University of Illinois at Chicago; Yeow Siow, University of Illinois at Chicago; Jaqueline Oxmara Rojas Robles, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Mechanical Engineering

, the quality and quantity of the support staff, in particular undergraduateteaching assistants, were found to be more crucial than anticipated and a robust recruitmentprocess became necessary. The high-stake design project in ME 250 changes each semester toprevent students from obtaining a set of solutions or project reports from prior terms, so teachingassistant training is continuous. The specifics of each problem encountered will be described inthe paper, along with lesson learned on how best to handle each situation and create a structurewhere continuous improvement can be made sustainable.Keywords: first year design, mechanical engineering, Arduino, project-based engineering1 IntroductionME 250 is a first-year design course offered at

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Perspectives and Evaluation of Engineering Design Education

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Isabella Stuopis, Tufts University; Kristen B. Wendell, Tufts University; Melissa R. Mazan, Tufts University

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Educational Research and Methods

reasoning used by five differentmembers of a mechanical engineering capstone design team as they partnered with a veterinarianto design a device for horse lung functioning assessment. Technology for veterinary medicinecan be a rich and engaging context for undergraduate design projects. Veterinary technologiesoffer an appropriate level of complexity and provide a new viewpoint on science concepts thatare part of the mechanical engineering canon [7], [8]. Moreover, because veterinarians have bothvery real technological needs and deep STEM knowledge to help mentor students, they can beideal capstone design clients.This case study looks specifically at one fourth-year undergraduate engineering team whosecapstone design client was a professor of

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Integrating Sustainability and Resilience Concepts into Courses

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Leslie R Brunell P.E., Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science)

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

civil engineering design projects. The projects ex- pose the civil engineering students to real world design problems. The students gain first hand experience communicating professionally, developing schedules, meeting deadlines and preparing professional qual- ity reports and presentations. Prof. Brunell is also the director of the Water Resouces graduate program. In addition to Senior Design she teaches Surveying and Water Resources. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020AbstractCivil Engineering Capstone Design requires undergraduate students to work in teams withprofessional mentors to develop solutions to relevant real-world problems. Recent changes toboth ABET Engineering

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Engineering Leadership Skills Development Across the Undergraduate-to-Workforce Transition

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Tahsin Mahmud Chowdhury, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daria A. Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado, Boulder; Julie Dyke Ford, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Engineering Leadership Development

is no study that explores the change in leadership behaviors among engineering students asthey are transitioning from their senior year to workplaces. Even though CVF has not beenwidely used in identifying leadership behaviors in the engineering education context, throughthis study CVF offers a valuable way to compare different leadership behaviors amongengineering students as they progress into their early careers.MethodologyThe participants in this study are drawn from a larger study of capstone design courses from fourdifferent universities across the United States [25]. There were 62 participants recruited fromCapstone courses from these universities. Sequential mixed methods analysis was carried out inthe larger project. The full data

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Green Energy Manufacturing and Sustainable Energy Management

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jung-Uk Lim, Liberty University; Kyung K. Bae, Liberty University; Hector E. Medina, Liberty University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation, Manufacturing

) and Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT), HAWT is relatively ineffective forbuildings and locations near buildings, and faces local resistance due to noise as well asaesthetic, visual and public safety concerns [6]. Alternatively, VAWT has been predicted as apotential solution for small-size wind turbines that are installed at buildings and near buildings[7, 8].Responding to that line of discussions, one of the engineering capstone teams have been workingon designing and building an Aesthetically Pleasing Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (APVAWT)system with a logo of the Liberty University School of Engineering for their capstone project. Toachieve the functionality and aesthetics of the APVAWT system, art design team joined fordesigning aesthetically

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Computers in Education Division Technical Session 1: Topics Related to Engineering - Part 1

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Joseph A. Lyon, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Aparajita Jaiswal, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Computers in Education

Paper ID #28316The Use of MATLAB Live as a Technology-enabled Learning EnvironmentforComputational Modeling Activities within a Capstone Engineering CourseMr. Joseph A. Lyon, Purdue University, West Lafayette Joseph A. Lyon is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education and a M.S. student in the School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University. He earned a B.S. in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from Purdue University. His research interests include models and modeling, computational thinking, and computation in engineering education.Ms. Aparajita Jaiswal, Purdue University, West Lafayette Aparajita

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Perceptions, Projects, and Practical Approaches

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Ryan Solnosky P.E., Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Civil Engineering

Education, 2020 Mini-Project Explorations to Develop Steel and Concrete Gravity System Design SkillsAbstractCore undergraduate steel and concrete courses focus their content on the fundamentals ofanalyzing and designing members. While this builds core knowledge in future structural engineers,many times these examples, homework, and exams approach isolated systems and/or members toconvey topics. It is often up to the capstone to connect members to systems; yet, there is often agap between offerings. If larger picture systems can adopted earlier, then stronger connections tothe topic while also informing students of real project complexity has potential. This paperdiscusses a two offerings of a yearlong piloted

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Design Mental Frameworks

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Qiushi Li, Shanghai Jiaotong University; Jiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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Design in Engineering Education

epistemological thinking at the starting point before the SDPsexperiences. This was designed in such a manner because of our limited access toopportunities to distribute surveys among the students. Qualitatively, an interview protocol was designed to explore the roles of students,their peers/teammates, and advisors in the context of SDPs and relevant factors. Sampleinterview questions include descriptive questions such as, can you describe theprocesses of completing your capstone project briefly? What roles did you play in acapstone project? What method did you use in order to finish your task? As you thinkabout your instructors, professors, advisors, what role do you think they have played?What kinds of interactions with them helped you with your

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 8

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University; Janis P. Raje

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Computing and Information Technology

graduation rates of participating students in Computer Science and Engineering. 3. Provide leadership training and opportunities for students within a student chapter of a professional organization, through multidisciplinary projects, and through student-to- student mentoring. 4. Strengthen engaged learning opportunities for students through a CS 1400 (Fundamentals of Programming) course project (freshman level) and through multidisciplinary IEEE student section projects and a required for-credit capstone project. 5. Provide faculty mentors for each program participant; increase the efficacy of faculty mentoring provided to each student participant in the scholarship program by faculty- mentor training and

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Experiences

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Ciprian Popoviciu, East Carolina University; Philip J. Lunsford II, East Carolina University; John Pickard, East Carolina University; Colby Lee Sawyer, East Carolina University; Dale Drummond, East Carolina University; Zachary Ryan Zynda, East Carolina University; Spencer Lee; Sean Wear

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

multiple admin domains without requiring significant local IT resources [11]The second project is providing the monitoring tools deployed on the platform developed by this project.3. Project SetupDuring their degree seeking studies students are mostly exposed to individual projects or projectsinvolving classmates studying the same subject matter. Capstone projects, when offered, are the mostcommon opportunities for more diverse and more creative learning opportunities. The challenge faced bythe video-conferencing service provided an opportunity to explore models for formalizing models ofengaging students from different departments to advance their own domain knowledge and to workacross domains by addressing real-life problems. In this section we

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Team/Project-based Pedagogy and Approaches

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jennifer Lynne Tennison, Saint Louis University; Jenna L. Gorlewicz, Saint Louis University; Sridhar S. Condoor, Saint Louis University

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

,mechatronics-style courses and design experiences that have been developed to address this gap[1, 8, 9, 10] (for a thorough sampling of mechatronics education resources, please see [11]).Inevitably, resource and time restrictions, coupled with needing extensive training through pre-requisite courses, limits early exposure to mechatronics-style design projects. Unfortunately, thisoften delays this important introduction to mechatronics and system design to late in theengineering curriculum, likely coinciding with other courses which would benefit from studentshaving had prior experience of such skills (such as capstone design projects). As a result, there isa growing interest in providing systems-level, mechatronics-like training early on in

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NSF Grantees: Sustainability

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Mason Andrews, Hampton University; Mujde Erten-Unal, Old Dominion University; Carol L. Considine, Old Dominion University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

level rise to prepare for the inevitability of severestorms. Engineering students from Old Dominion University joined the effort, first as volunteersand then as capstone design students.The project began with significant community engagement which was orchestrated through thecivic league. Students were thus able to pin-point flooding, shoreline erosion, and the rates atwhich basements were taking on water and develop an urgent level of motivation to helpcommunity members with whom they became acquainted. Simultaneously, students met withacademics and area professionals with expertise in pieces of the puzzle (preservationists, marinebiologists, landscape architects, oceanographers, and hydrologists among them) and with cityplanners and storm

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2020 ASEE North Central Section conference

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Robert Michael P.E., Gannon University; Davide Piovesan, Gannon University; David Gee, Gannon University

access to all the information through the PDMsystem. The PDM system offers a great solution to keep large projects organized and onschedule. Martinez et al., describes using a Collaborative Web environment to manage acomplex engineering project carried out by the assimilation of various work teams 5. Finally,Oden et al, describes Rice University’s efforts to implement and evaluate outcomes fromcollaboratively teaching capstone design and assigning interdisciplinary teams to solve real-world design challenges6. Rice University Brown School of Engineering opened a facility, theOshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK) which is dedicated to undergraduate engineeringdesign efforts. The facility has space for all 8 engineering department with the goal

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Course Transformation in ECE

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Karl Brakora, Grand Valley State University; Lihong (Heidi) Jiao, Grand Valley State University

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Electrical and Computer

for the class, students areinformed at the start of class that they will be purchasing the custom PCBs and components fortheir project.While the tools and facilities necessary to support PCB assembly and testing are inexpensive,most serve a multipurpose role and support graduate research, capstone projects, and otherelectronics exercises as well. These include: • Professional ECAD Software: This course uses Altium Design Workbench as the PCB design software. This software was chosen because it is a powerful professional tool commonly used in local industry and, after 2018, Altium reestablished very reasonable rates for university licenses. • Assembly tools: Good stencil printers, either accepting standard framed