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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 7: Experiential Learning

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liang Li Wu, University of California - Irvine; Robert M. Cassidy, University of California - Irvine; J Michael McCarthy, University of California - Irvine; John C. LaRue, University of California - Irvine; Gregory N. Washington, University of California - Irvine

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First-Year Programs

during capstone design projects especially in device manufacturing. The courseevaluation, given at the end of each quarter, asked students to self-assess their ability bycomparing the following skills at the beginning and the end of quarter on a scale of 0 to 4 where0 is “very little”, 1 is “somewhat”, 2 is “average”, 3 is “moderate” and 4 is “high”:  Ability to design and fabricate a device (Fall quarter only)  Ability to use simple hand tools (Fall quarter only)  Ability to use CAD (Fall quarter only)  Ability to list steps in the design process (Fall quarter only)  Understanding of different engineering majors (Fall quarter only)  Ability to program microcontrollers (Winter quarter only)To further assess the

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SED Technical Session: Applications

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Georgios Georgalis, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Karen Marais, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Diversity

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Systems Engineering

Learning Courses using Crowd SignalsProject-based learning (PBL) is a growing component of engineering education in the UnitedStates. Its perceived educational value is exemplified by its explicit mention in ABET’sCriterion 5, which requires engineering programs to provide a culminating design experience thatincorporates engineering standards and multiple constraints. Capstone courses and design-build-test projects allow students to synthesize and apply engineering knowledge, skills, and tools toopen-ended design problems. Students work and communicate in teams to complete tasks likegenerating requirements, and testing and integrating equipment. There appears to be widespreadconsensus that project-based learning is

Conference Session

Works in Progress I

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University; Lei Xie, Texas A&M University; Michael Beyerlein, Texas A&M University; Rodney Boehm, Texas A&M University; Jill Zarestky, Colorado State University

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Educational Research and Methods

University of Alabama. She has experi- ence working with many industries such as automotive, chemical distribution etc. on transportation and operations management projects. She works extensively with food banks and food pantries on supply chain management and logistics focused initiatives. Her graduate and undergraduate students are integral part of her service-learning based logistics classes. She teaches courses in strategic relationships among industrial distributors and distribution logistics. Her recent research focuses on engineering education and learning sciences with a focus on how to engage students better to prepare their minds for the future. Her other research interests include empirical studies to

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FPD10 -- Pre-Engineering and Bridge Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cecelia Wigal, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga; Molly Littleton, Signal Centers

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First-Year Programs

structural and mechanical projects. At the juniorand senior level the students use design concepts to solve real-life and open-endedinterdisciplinary industry-based problems. The student project teams work with the sponsors anda faculty advisors to develop, test, and prototype a solution. In addition, students apply designconcepts in a three credit hour discipline-based capstone course during their senior year. Thestructure of the design curriculum is shown in Figure 1.0. Engineering Design Texts Interdisciplinary cont’d Discipline Design (3 hrs) (3 hrs) Senior

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Malicky, University of San Diego; Ming Huang, University of San Diego; Susan Lord, University of San Diego

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New Engineering Educators

learning is often not made in the literature, although it is helpful to distinguish them when trying to determine which pedagogy is most appropriate for a given instructor and course. The most common implementation of project-based learning in engineering is for capstone design courses.• Inquiry-Based Learning: The organizing principle for inquiry-based learning is the scientific method; as such inquiry learning is most commonly used in labs. Students observe a carefully selected phenomenon, develop a hypothesis about that phenomenon, develop an experimental procedure to test their hypothesis, perform their experiment, evaluate their results, and reflect on their learning. Learning is again student-centered, interactive

Conference Session

Active Learning in ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramakrishnan Sundaram, Gannon University

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Electrical and Computer

of the 2002 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, F2-A, pp.12-14, 2002.13. S. Vattam, M. Helms, and A. Goel, “Biologically-Inspired Innovation in Engineering Design: A Cognitive Study,” GVU Technical Report - http://hdl.handle.net/1853/14346, 2007.14. V. Mahnic, “A Capstone Course on Agile Software Development Using Scrum,” IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 55, Issue: 1, pp. 99-106, February 2012.15. D.F. Rico and H.H. Sayani, “Use of Agile Methods in Software Engineering Education,” Proceedings of the Agile Conference (AGILE '09), pp. 174-179, August 2009.16. D. Damian et al., “Teaching a globally distributed project course using Scrum practices,” Collaborative Teaching of Globally Distributed Software Development

Conference Session

Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christy Moore; Stephanie Bird; Steven Nichols

industrial representatives. He also preparedproposals for industrial support for Departmental Activities. Dr. Nichols also serves as adesignated contact for alumni. As part of his responsibilities, Dr. Nichols has raised more than $8million in industrial support for educational activities.Dr. Nichols previously served as the Director of the Design Projects Program. (Department ofMechanical Engineering) Dr. Nichols taught the Department's capstone design courses (ME 466Kand ME 279M) for 14 years, supervising approximately 200 students each year in approximately60 industrial sponsored projects annually. He emphasizes design methodology and has introducedmaterial on engineering ethics, and engineering professionalism. While serving as Director for

Conference Session

Teaching Design with a Twist

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar; Eric Granlund

several different courses.Engineering Design and Graphics 100 (ED&G 100) is an introduction to engineeringdesign course for all freshman baccalaureate engineering students at the Altoona Collegeof the Pennsylvania State University. In this three credit-hour course, engineering designprocess is taught through team oriented design projects supported by communicationskills: graphical and written. Implementation of project-based learning in ED&G 100course is achieved by assigning a comprehensive project designed to encompass all thefundamental engineering principles covered in the course and to complement the projectsconducted in the associated design laboratory. The capstone project requires students todesign a product to be mass produced

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Teams and Teamwork in Design

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Kristine Sheridan, University of Toronto; Greg Evans, University of Toronto; Doug Reeve, University of Toronto

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Design in Engineering Education

team-based project. In particular, team-based designprojects (cornerstone, capstone, or discipline specific) are ideal candidates as they requireeffective teamwork to facilitate the development of an optimal design solution. The toolcomprises four areas where students can engage in learning from their team experience. Theseareas allow students to: • self-reflect and provide feedback on their teammates • review the feedback they have received • access tools and techniques to improve their understanding of team-effectiveness • engage in exercises to practice their team-effectiveness competenciesThis section outlines our proposed method of integrating this learning tool into a course and itsteam-based project. Figure 1 demonstrates

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ty Newell; Timothy Shedd

“toolbox” for easier numericalproblem formulations.Our curriculum is one in which few opportunities exist for team-based project work before the Page 6.119.9senior year when capstone design courses implement this format. A favorable by-product ofProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright2001, American Society for Engineering Educationjunior year (or earlier) teaming is that students can have a positive response during jobinterviews when they are asked the inevitable question: “Have you ever worked in teamsituation?” As related to us by several students interviewing during

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Doepker

Session 2323 The Design and Manufacturing Clinic: Bringing Industrial Projects into the Classroom Philip E. Doepker University of DaytonAbstractFor over a decade capstone design courses and other project related courses haveimplemented projects that have roots in industry. This was done on an informal basisbetween professors and contacts in industry. This process lacked consistency in thatsome projects would be repeated from previous terms or projects would be completelydefined by faculty with no input from industry. With recent findings (1,3,8) from varioustechnical

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Software Engineering Division (SWED) Technical Session #3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joydeep Mitra, Northeastern University; Amir Kirsh

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Software Engineering Division (SWED)

/10.1145/3545945.3569739 [6] E. Aivaloglou and A. v. d. Meulen, “An empirical study of students’ perceptions on the setup and grading of group programming assignments,” ACM Trans. Comput. Educ., vol. 21, no. 3, mar 2021. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1145/3440994 [7] V. Farrell, G. Ravalli, G. Farrell, P. Kindler, and D. Hall, “Capstone project: Fair, just and accountable assessment,” in Proceedings of the 17th ACM Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ser. ITiCSE ’12. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2012, p. 168–173. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1145/2325296.2325339 [8] J. Porquet-Lupine and M. Brigham, “Evaluating group work in (too

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 3: Teamwork

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rui Li, New York University; Jack Bringardner, Colorado School of Mines; Victoria Bill, Colorado School of Mines

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

. Palincsar, "Motivating Project-Based Learning: Sustaining the Doing, Supporting the Learning," Educational Psychologist, vol. 26, no. 3-4, pp. 369-398, 1991/06/01 1991, doi: 10.1080/00461520.1991.9653139.[19] B. M. Aller, D. M. Lyth, and L. A. Mallak, "Capstone project team formation: Mingling increases performance and motivation," Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 503-507, 2008.[20] M. W. Ohland et al., "The comprehensive assessment of team member effectiveness: Development of a behaviorally anchored rating scale for self-and peer evaluation," Academy of Management Learning & Education, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 609-630, 2012.

Conference Session

Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Feldhaus; Kenneth Reid

Articulation Agreements With High Schools Implementing Project Lead The Way (PLTW) Kenneth Reid and Charles Feldhaus, Ed.D Purdue School of Engineering and Technology Indiana University Purdue University IndianapolisBackground:Recently, the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) has embarked on anambitious effort to promote and improve K-12 engineering and engineering technologyeducation. Since 2003, the ASEE has created a new K-12 division dedicated to K-12engineering education, created a guidebook for high school students called Engineering,Go for It! that was distributed to almost 350,000 secondary students, created an e-newsletter that

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Risa Robinson

Session ___ Improving Design of Experiment Skills through a Project Based Fluids Laboratory Risa J. Robinson Rochester Institute of Technology1.0 IntroductionThe educational community recognizes that the typical engineering curriculum has steadilydecreased the emphasis on the study of experimental techniques for problem solving. 1 Industrypartners suggest there is a need to place a greater emphasis on the study and practice ofexperimentation in the engineering curriculum.2 These recent trends are supported by results fromexit interviews

Conference Session

Assessment of Student Learning 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Micah Lande, Arizona State University; James Nelson, Arizona State University

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Educational Research and Methods

be achieved. Project-based learning is a growing pedagogy to teach capstone engineeringdesign projects, and spreading to cornerstone and engineering foundation classes. All the moreneeded then, are means and tools to help instructors, students and project coaches manageexpectations. Being able to characterize engineering design projects based on cursory linguisticanalysis can help instructors and students alike to direct activities to improve learning and bemore flexible in considering evaluation of such activities.Further Research: Automated ToolsThis work presents an initial attempt at developing procedures and means to do linguisticanalysis of engineering documentation. Steps should be taken to take the convoluted processesdescribed above

Conference Session

Design Across Curriculum 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nicole Danielle Trenchard, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Christopher Lombardo, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

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Design in Engineering Education

havethe opportunity to earn academic credit for their engineering design work. A key difference in thisframework as compared to other typical capstone designs, independent studies, or research creditcourses is that undergraduate TAs and project managers within the project teams are responsiblefor developing many of the assignments distributed to those students enrolled the course as theproject progresses. The methods of student assessment within this framework include: individualor small-group weekly assignments, design notebook checks, peer and self-evaluations,participation, summative technical reports, and the Humanitarian Library. Additionally, unlikemany traditional problem set or laboratory courses, student skills are developed through

Conference Session

Making, Hacking, and Extracurricular Design

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle Dukart, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #18684Creating Meaningful Experiences Through Extracurricular Project-BasedExperiential LearningDr. Kyle Dukart, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Dr. Dukart graduated with his B.A. in English and Honors from the University of North Dakota in 1997, followed by an M.A. in English in 1999 and a B.A. in Computer Science in 2002. He recently received (2016) his Ed.D. emphasizing Higher Education from the Department of Organizational Leadership, Pol- icy, and Development from the University of Minnesota. He has worked as an instructor and academic advisor at the University of North Dakota, the University of

Conference Session

Professional Skills and Community Building in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joaquin Rodriguez, University of Pittsburgh

requirement for capstone courses. Continuous improvements havebeen in progress to provide a systematic approach while remaining flexible for innovation. Thishas proved valuable in sustaining the continuity of the experience during the COVID-19 pandemic.Activities are organized each semester using project management techniques (plan, logbook,reports, and meetings). The instructor monitors and coaches these activities using a virtual platformMS TEAMS. Activities include an early presentation of the project proposal (week 2), a scheduledprogress report presentation (week 4), a meeting with the instructor before delivering the activityto the selected community (weeks 4-8), a poster and a final presentation (weeks 12-14). Studentsalso deliver a package

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International Division Technical Session 1: Looking at Study Abroad through an enhanced lens

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meredith Blumthal; Luis Rodriguez; James Stubbins, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Brian Woodard, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Gretchen Forman, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Molly Goldstein, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Hannah Dougherty, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Ernest-John Ignacio, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Dawn Owens, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

Paper ID #37585Developing Collaborative Online International Learning(COIL) projects in Engineering EducationMeredith Blumthal Meredith Blumthal became the Director of International Programs in the Grainger College of Engineering in 2017, and has 15 years of experience in international education. She collaborates with faculty members across the college to create international education opportunities for engineering students, including semester, short-term faculty-led and summer research experiences. Meredith has doubled faculty led programs since her start, and was instrumental starting COIL courses in

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First-Year Programs: Unique Projects and Pedagogies

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Yanjun Yan, Western Carolina University; Hugh Jack P. Eng. P.E., Western Carolina University; James Coffin

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #33521Team-Teaching a Project-Based First-Year Seminar in PandemicDr. Yanjun Yan, Western Carolina University Yanjun Yan is an Associate Professor in Engineering and Technology at Western Carolina University. Her research interests include engineering education, swarm robotics, statistical signal processing, and swarm intelligence.Dr. Hugh Jack P. Eng. P.E., Western Carolina University Dr. Jack holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s and Ph.D. in Mechanical En- gineering from the University of Western Ontario. He is currently a Distinguished Professor and Director of the School of

Conference Session

Design in Multidisciplinary Learning Environment

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Amy Dunford, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Edwing A. Medina, New York University Tandon School of Engineering; Jack Bringardner, New York University Tandon School of Engineering

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Investigating Team Roles Within Long-Term Project-Based Learning ExperiencesIntroductionExperiential learning continues to increase in undergraduate engineering education in order toprepare students for their professional careers. Project-based learning is becoming more commonthroughout engineering programs, with the additions of first-year cornerstone design experiencesand capstone senior design experiences. These experiences provide students with context fortechnical skills to be learned and applied as well as professional skills to be developed. While thefirst and final years of undergraduate engineering curricula have evolved significantly, themiddle years are often lighter in project-based learning with more emphasis on

Conference Session

Alternative Methods of Teaching and Learning Mechanics

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Keith D. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University; Amie Baisley, University of Florida

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Diversity

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Mechanics

those core courses serve as thesteppingstone to advanced professional courses in the discipline. Other curricula rely on themechanics courses in a similar way but have a different disciplinary core at the junior level anddifferent professional courses at the senior level.The three courses are generally associated with three semester credit hours each. At the rise ofThe Mechanics Project, these courses were taught in a lecture-based format that met twice aweek using common mechanics textbooks. We will refer to this context as the “traditional”learning environment, which is comprised of lecture during class time, homework outside ofclass, and a few exams to assess learning. Capstone

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 7: Experiential Learning

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandria Steiner, University of Michigan; Laura Hirshfield, University of Michigan; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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First-Year Programs

B.S. from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. from Purdue University, both in chemical engineering. She then transitioned into the engineering education field by completing a post-doctoral appointment at Oregon State University investigating technology-aided conceptual learning. She is currently doing research on team dynamics and students’ changes in engineering self-efficacy in project-based learning.Dr. Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan Dr. Cynthia Finelli is Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Faculty Director for Engineering Education Research at the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching in Engineer- ing (CRLT-Engin) at University of Michigan (U-M). She earned B.S.E.E

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Computers in Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Andrew Wilkerson P.E., York College of Pennsylvania; Stephen Andrew Gadsden, University of Guelph; Andrew Lee, University of Guelph; Robert Nicholas Vandemark; Elyse Hill; Amy Domenique Gadsden, University of Alberta

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Computers in Education

Paper ID #22639ROS as an Undergraduate Project-based Learning EnablerDr. Stephen Andrew Wilkerson P.E., York College of Pennsylvania Stephen Wilkerson (swilkerson@ycp.edu) received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1990 in Mechanical Engineering. His Thesis and initial work was on underwater explosion bubble dynamics and ship and submarine whipping. After graduation he took a position with the US Army where he has been ever since. For the first decade with the Army he worked on notable programs to include the M829A1 and A2 that were first of a kind composite saboted munition. His travels have taken him to Los

Conference Session

Design for Society and the Environment

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed Samir Hefzy, The University of Toledo; Mehdi Pourazady, The University of Toledo; Abdollah Aliakbarkhan Afjeh, The University of Toledo

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Design in Engineering Education

project and can be found atthe following URL address:http://www.eng.utoledo.edu/mime/design_clinic/design_expo/fall00pages/2000-01-06/home.htmlFigure 3 Vertical Wheelchair Platform Lift Figure 4 Isometric Schematic of the Vertical Wheelchair Platform Lift Page 13.521.12Outcomes of the Senior Design Course in the Mechanical Engineering Department:The ME Senior Design course is the capstone event of undergraduate education. Each project isdesigned to address several of the “a-k” ABET evaluation criteria for engineering programs(Table 2). The course outcomes are listed in Table

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom L. Powers; Roger Wright; O'Neill Burchett; Michael R. Manning; Bruce W. Farmer; Brad Gilbreath

the program is to produce business-literateengineers and engineering-literate business people.Manufacturing Projects, the capstone course of the Manufacturing Engineering & ManagementProgram, is a master's-level course listed jointly in NMSU's business and engineering colleges.The intent of the course is to help students learn how to make positive contributions tointerdisciplinary work teams and manufacturing firms. In the course, business and engineeringstudents work together on teams to develop an appreciation for the interdependence of businessand engineering decisions.In preparation for Manufacturing Projects, business students take a course that introduces themto engineering concepts and engineering students take a course that

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ERM Technical Session 14: Thinking about the Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua Earnest, National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training and Research (NITTTR), Bhopal, India; shashi kant Gupta, National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training and Research, Bhopal, India; Susan Sunny Mathew, National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training and Research, Bhopal, India; Sthuthi Rachel Joshua, Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology

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Educational Research and Methods

industry in the graduating students, along with the technologyrelated skills. As the students climb up the semester of the concerned program, the studentsgain ample confidence to undertake the more complex capstone project [1] of the last twosemesters intended to integrate several of the competencies related to the different courses.3. MICRO–PROJECT IN ‘COMPETENCY–FOCUSED OBC’"Students showed a higher level of satisfaction with this educational method (micro–project)in comparison to the traditional one" [Ceniceros, 2015]. The Association of AmericanColleges and Universities (AAC&U) and others are tuning the outcome attainment in acompetency model as part of the national focus’ [Carriveau, 2016]. World over, the call forcompetency measures

Conference Session

Investigating Instructional Strategies

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eleanor Leung, Minnesota State University Mankato, Iron Range Engineering; Elizabeth Pluskwik, Minnesota State University, Mankato / Iron Range Engineering

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

supported by classroominstruction. This structure is similar to senior design or a capstone project, but our program allowsstudents to have a different industry project each semester of their junior and senior year.The program emphasizes continuous improvement and the development of self-regulated learningabilities, professional skills, and technical engineering knowledge, which is acquired primarily inone-credit courses called ”competencies” [11]. Students learn in small groups (3 - 12 people)with academic staff facilitating the ”learning conversations.” These class meetings include somelecture but are primarily conversations between faculty and learners. Many learning conversationsare flipped, so students learn the material outside of class

Conference Session

Practice II: Curricular Innovations

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Stefanek, Purdue University Northwest; Niranjan Hemant Desai, Purdue University Northwest

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Educational Research and Methods

: Alan H. Yorkdale Memorial Award, 2014. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Integration of Research Topics into Undergraduate Information Technology Courses and ProjectsIntroductionUndergraduate information technology, computer science and software engineering courses oftenrequire that software projects be completed in courses that allow students to gain experienceworking on real-world-like problems. Senior technology projects (Capstone projects) requirestudents to work on real-world projects that may require collaborating with companies. Research[1], [2], [3] has shown the advantages of using real-world-like projects in courses. Courseprojects, however, can also