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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 4

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University; Benjamin Chambers

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Diversity

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Computing and Information Technology

design is currently notyet well represented in undergraduate academic programs.In order to prepare our computer engineering students for the autonomous vehicle designexperience which can be considered as a complex embedded systems design, we offer twocourses on embedded systems. However, these two courses on embedded systems design are notenough to teach the students the skills that they need. In order to satisfy the ABET requirementsstudents in computer engineering program are required to take a capstone course. The projectsthat students do in this capstone course are embedded projects. This paper will describeautonomous vehicle projects that the students have done in this capstone course.IntroductionWikipedia defines autonomous vehicle as “ A

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Experiments and Laboratories in Mechanical Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank Liou, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Society for Engineering Education, 2008 DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERDISCIPLINERY LABORATORY CURRICULUM FOR EMERGING PRODUCT MANUFACTURINGAbstractThis paper summarizes an effort to develop an interdisciplinary capstone design projectcourse and laboratory in manufacturing. As manufacturing laboratories are veryexpensive to develop, this program is designed based on distributed and integratedmanufacturing processes on campus. As students can gain access to various facilities,they will be able to make various products, including some emerging products, such asEDM machines, fuel cells, etc. As this capstone design project provides opportunities forstudents to design, manufacture, it stimulates the students’ interest in real-world productrealization. Both

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Best in DEED

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristin A. Bartlett, University of Kentucky; William Davis Ferriell, University of Kentucky; Jonathan Mills, University of Kentucky

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

initial outcomes of acollaborative course in which 3rd year undergraduate product design students work together witha 4th year biomedical engineering capstone course to design medical devices. The course hasbeen run two times and based on the project outcomes and the student experiences in the firstiteration, substantial changes were made for the second iteration of the course.The biomedical engineering capstone course lasts for an entire school year, but the collaborationwith the product design students is only designated for one semester. The first iteration of theinterdisciplinary collaboration took place during the spring semester of the capstone course.Because the biomedical engineering capstone involves primarily prototyping in the

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Design Throughout the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Lulay, University of Portland; Heather Dillon, University of Portland; Timothy A. Doughty, University of Portland; Deborah S. Munro, University of Portland; Shazib Z. Vijlee, University of Portland

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Mechanical Engineering

show neutral to “strongly agree” that each project effectively teaches various elements of thedesign process. Page 26.903.9 8The results of the survey show that most students believe the design projects are helpful to learnthe design process. They have further identified several of the class projects were more helpful inbuilding specific design skills. In the case of the project in Machine Design this outcome is notsurprising since the class is designed to be taken in the Spring of the Junior year before thestudents enter the Capstone design course and focuses on the full design process.Other

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Sustainability and Social Responsibility

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Carl Hedden, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Jingwen Tan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Caitlin Gee, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Brad DeBoer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Kathryn Dannemann, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Nihat Baysal, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Joel L. Plawsky, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

Baysal, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteProf. Joel L. Plawsky, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Teaching Modular Design: Mobile Processing Plants to Reduce Food WasteIntroduction This paper details a recent collaboration at RPI whereby undergraduate researchers andfaculty from chemical engineering worked with capstone design students and instructors fromfour additional engineering departments on a collaborative, multidisciplinary project aimed atmodular design of agricultural waste processing plants. Chemical engineering processsimulations were integrated with concepts of modular manufacturing and transportable designover the course of two academic calendar

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Student Division Technical Session 2

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Matilda Ho, University of Texas at Dallas; Maria Fernanda Valdez; Casey Hatfield; Jieun Kim; Taylor Carlile Beach

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Student

Paper ID #33234Taking Control of Control Systems: A Student Developed, Multimedia andSimulation Tool for Control Systems EducationMatilda Ho, University of Texas at Dallas Matilda Ho completed this capstone project for a BS in Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas. She is currently continuing her education at The University of Texas at Dallas for an MS in Systems Engineering and Management. Upon completion, she hopes to work in industry with a focus in sustainable business.Ms. Maria Fernanda ValdezCasey HatfieldMs. Jieun KimTaylor Carlile Beach American

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Anita Singh; Dawn Ferry

. IntroductionThe ultimate goal of engineering education is to graduate engineers who can design andimplement solution to existing societal problems. To accomplish this goal, meaningfulengineering design experiences are integrated into the curriculum as early as during the firstyear. In addition to the cornerstone project course such as introduction to engineering design, thefirst two years of the curriculum are devoted primarily to the basic sciences, followed byadvanced courses in the last two years that familiarize the students with discipline specifictechnical contents. To conclude the engineering design learning experience, engineeringundergraduate education has a capstone senior design project course that allow students toimplement design process

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FPD) Work-in-Progress 2: Skills Development and Career Preparation

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megann P Hedgecock, Pennsylvania State University; Sally Sue Richmond, Penn State Great Valley

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs Division (FPD)

includes a design project that is a significant part of the curriculum.The first-year students work in teams to complete the project and present their work in a postersession at the end of the semester, attended by industry partners, engineering alumni, graduateengineering students, faculty, and students’ friends and family.The fourth-year MDE students are taking a year-long capstone course where they complete amore complex design project. As part of this capstone course, the instructor assigns MDEstudents to mentor one or two EDSGN 100 teams. The fourth-year students have not receivedany formal mentor training. In both courses, students follow a general engineering designprocess where they identify the problem and customer needs, specify system

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2020 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Wei Xie

intelligence (AI), biomanufacturing, regulation, cyber- becoming standard regulations and industry practice. Thisphysical system risk management and automation, biology, and framework includes an iterative process as shown in Figure 1biochemistry guides a multifaceted capstone project. This below. One pivotal element of this framework is transformingproject focuses on developing an interdisciplinary, modularized the validated innovative research to education and industryand extensible STEM education and industry workforce life- workforce training and ultimately reflecting conceptlong training platform. This advanced educational initiative applications in industry practices; see for example [2].offers

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2020 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Beverly Kris Jaeger-Helton

intelligence (AI), biomanufacturing, regulation, cyber- becoming standard regulations and industry practice. Thisphysical system risk management and automation, biology, and framework includes an iterative process as shown in Figure 1biochemistry guides a multifaceted capstone project. This below. One pivotal element of this framework is transformingproject focuses on developing an interdisciplinary, modularized the validated innovative research to education and industryand extensible STEM education and industry workforce life- workforce training and ultimately reflecting conceptlong training platform. This advanced educational initiative applications in industry practices; see for example [2].offers

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2020 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Jared Auclair

intelligence (AI), biomanufacturing, regulation, cyber- becoming standard regulations and industry practice. Thisphysical system risk management and automation, biology, and framework includes an iterative process as shown in Figure 1biochemistry guides a multifaceted capstone project. This below. One pivotal element of this framework is transformingproject focuses on developing an interdisciplinary, modularized the validated innovative research to education and industryand extensible STEM education and industry workforce life- workforce training and ultimately reflecting conceptlong training platform. This advanced educational initiative applications in industry practices; see for example [2].offers

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2020 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Jinxiang Pei

intelligence (AI), biomanufacturing, regulation, cyber- becoming standard regulations and industry practice. Thisphysical system risk management and automation, biology, and framework includes an iterative process as shown in Figure 1biochemistry guides a multifaceted capstone project. This below. One pivotal element of this framework is transformingproject focuses on developing an interdisciplinary, modularized the validated innovative research to education and industryand extensible STEM education and industry workforce life- workforce training and ultimately reflecting conceptlong training platform. This advanced educational initiative applications in industry practices; see for example [2].offers

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2020 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Hua Zheng

intelligence (AI), biomanufacturing, regulation, cyber- becoming standard regulations and industry practice. Thisphysical system risk management and automation, biology, and framework includes an iterative process as shown in Figure 1biochemistry guides a multifaceted capstone project. This below. One pivotal element of this framework is transformingproject focuses on developing an interdisciplinary, modularized the validated innovative research to education and industryand extensible STEM education and industry workforce life- workforce training and ultimately reflecting conceptlong training platform. This advanced educational initiative applications in industry practices; see for example [2].offers

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design I

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wesley L. Stone, Western Carolina University; Robert Scott Pierce P.E., Western Carolina University; Sudhir Kaul, Western Carolina University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

to design, build, and test alphaprototypes that are student-generated ideas. Students propose ideas that are electro-mechanicalin nature; they are grouped into teams; and they go through the product development cycle of asubset of the project ideas. Not only has this course become an outstanding opportunity to assesseach program at a common point, it has served as a key feeder to the senior capstone project, atwo-semester sequence that is industry sponsored. Projects that have been implemented inENGR 350 have been wide-ranging in nature, such as a motor-driven fishing reel for anglerswith the use of one arm; an inexpensive water-filtration system for countries with waterchallenges; a self-propelled longboard (skateboard) with braking

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Education: Upperclass Years

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Bullard, North Carolina State University

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Chemical Engineering

Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor Award, and the NCSU Faculty Advisor Award. Page 15.661.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Ideas to Consider for New Chemical Engineering Educators: Senior DesignAbstractTeaching the senior or “capstone” design course can be intimidating to new facultymembers since the course is typically more open ended and project-based compared toother traditional core courses. Faculty with backgrounds in chemistry or physics who joina chemical engineering department may have never taken such a course themselves. Inmany departments, the course was traditionally taught

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan Kremer; Sven Bilen; Richard Devon

2–3 years earlier. The importantthing to note is that this is a first step at requiring some design exposure, if not quiteprerequisites, for the capstone design course.The Senior Capstone Design Course As part of the capstone design curriculum, “industry-sponsored” and “professor-driven”design projects are now fairly commonplace. Many engineering programs (including PennState’s) provide capstone design experiences via industry-sponsored design projects.12 Theseprojects are excellent methods for providing meaningful “real world” design experiences,although they have their own set of difficulties. Professor-driven projects in the capstone designcourse are also valuable in that the design experience can be tailored to course content

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Miller; Stephen J. Walsh; James J. Brickley

. Seniors enrolled in capstone design earn four credits,and play the role of founders of a high-tech company. Development of the company’s “product”is the basis of the capstone design project. The one-credit students are “ground floor employees”of the start-up companies. This model allows EEP to fit easily within the already crowdedundergraduate curriculum at NC State, and provides a framework for developing teamwork andleadership skills, mentoring of underclassmen by seniors, and a “real world” experience thatgives the students a feel for life in a start-up company.The EEP model places a great deal of emphasis on the leadership role of the senior st udents.They are told up front that this is the major difference between pursuing capstone design in

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Michael Klein; Matt Walker; Kevin Organ; Dan Gerbus

Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationCreating Elevating GoalsThe notion of creating a clear and concise goal is not new. However, a goal can be establishedthat clearly identifies the objectives of a project, but if the team members do not find that goalworthwhile then individual commitment and focus can be compromised. In other words, not onlymust a goal be clarified, but also the members of that team must all contain the belief that the goalembodies a valuable and important result.A central role of IEW members is to provide guidance to the seniors design teams enrolled inCapstone Design. Those involved in the UI Capstone Design process must clearly identify thegoals of

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching and Learning

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Cardella, Center for the Advancement of Scholarships on Engineering Education (CASEE); Cynthia Atman, University of Washington

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Educational Research and Methods

mathematics is considered to be a fundamental element of engineering education, littleempirical research has been conducted to understand how engineering students actually usemathematics. This project takes a research- informed approach towards understanding the role ofmathematics in engineering design by combining two studies of engineering students’ use ofmathematical thinking: a study of engineering students’ use of mathematics during an industry-based senior design project and a study of engineering students’ use of mathematics during alaboratory based design problem.The capstone study used a combination of qualitative methodologies to investigate engineeringstudents’ use of mathematics during one of their first real- world design projects. For

Conference Session

DEED Potpourri

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farrokh Attarzadeh, University of Houston; Enrique Barbieri, University of Houston; Miguel Ramos, University of Houston

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Design in Engineering Education

even critical curricular component. In the past, many publications centeredon general reporting regarding capstone course development, implementation andimprovement1, 2 and adding an industry collaboration component to the capstone courses3,4 . After the ABET 2K guidelines5 were released, many established capstone coursesadded a systematic assessment component6, 7, 8. Recently, interest in the entrepreneurialand commercial dimensions of this work and inclusion of these concepts in capstonecourses is on the rise9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.The Senior Project course at the Computer Engineering Technology (CET) program,University of Houston is relatively young. As part of an effort to streamline the CETprogram in Engineering Technology (ET

Conference Session

IE/EM Skills in Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Matson; Kenneth Hunter; David Elizandro

programs to demonstrate that“graduates have the ability to design, develop, implement, and improve integrated systems thatinclude people, materials, information, equipment, and energy” and to include “in-depthinstruction to accomplish the integration of systems using appropriate analytical, computational,and experimental practices.”1 Many industrial engineering programs use senior capstone designprojects to achieve program outcomes that relate to integrated systems. In such an environment,courses preceding the capstone project focus on developing “tools” that will be applied to anintegrated system in the capstone project. The tools are acquired through stand-alone topics withapplications limited to textbook problems or projects that are limited in

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division (IND) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Hammond, University of Indianapolis; Joan Martinez, University of Indianapolis; Joseph B. Herzog, University of Indianapolis

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Diversity

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Industrial Engineering Division (IND)

can result in conflict or issues when completing project tasks. AtUniversity of Indianapolis’ R.B. Annis School of Engineering, we noticed that student interestlevel in a project topic is a significant factor toward commitment and contribution to projectcompletion.Our institution’s senior capstone course requires students to participate in design projects asmembers of multidisciplinary teams solving open-ended real-world problems. Assigning studentsto projects can be a complicated process, especially considering student preferences, majors,skills, and the needs/nature of the project. We are a young program continuing to grow and areinterested in a systematic approach to assign teams. Currently, a rank-based survey is used togauge student

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Kurtanich, Youngstown State University; William Wood, Youngstown State University; Edward Garchar, Youngstown State University

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Engineering Technology

concurrently by the Civil & Construction Engineering Technology (CCET) and ElectricalEngineering Technology (EET) baccalaureate students during their senior year. MechanicalEngineering Technology (MET) may elect to take one or both courses as well. These coursesserve as a capstone experience that incorporates both individual and team interdisciplinarydesign projects. CCET 4884 – Civil and Structural Facilities Design is an interdisciplinarycapstone course that provides an overview of the requirements and design procedures for civiland structural systems including site development, utilities, foundation, wall systems, framingsystems and floor system design as well as specifications & estimating. This course has a majorinterdisciplinary group

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Hands-On Learning in ET I

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carmen Cioc, The University of Toledo; Sorin Cioc, The University of Toledo

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

, KEEN Ambassador and a 2021 Fellow, etc. She has numerous awards and recognitions to her credit, including several best paper awards.Dr. Sorin Cioc, The University of Toledo Dr. Sorin Cioc is a clinical associate professor and undergraduate program director in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering (MIME). ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Enhancing MET Education: Innovations in Laboratory Equipment DevelopmentIntroductionSenior Design Capstone courses provide a hands-on learning environment where students gainvaluable experience in project management, collaboration, problem-solving, and technicalexpertise. They

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Innovation in Diversity and Inclusivity

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2016 EDI

Authors

Sharon A. Jones P.E., University of Portland

: % of URM studentscompared to 10-year average of 18% 40 35 30 25 20 Total % 15 10 5 0 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015Increases based on intentional actions…• Curricular & co-curricular changes • from 0 to 3 unrestricted electives • study abroad programs within a 4-year graduation plan • from competitive to cooperative first-year design project focused on assistive design technologies • multi-disciplinary senior design capstone option for all majors • ethics across the curriculum • extremely strong SWE student chapter• Retention program for “at-risk” students • any first- or second-year student in good academic standing, but behind cohort … typically starting in pre-calculus

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Poster Session

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aja Rachel Bettencourt-Mccarthy, University of Cincinnati; Matthew Sleep, University of Cincinnati

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

over time. In addition, while scholars and accrediting bodies have worked to defineengineering design, the extent to which these definitions reflect the students’ understanding ofengineering design is less clear. This paper aims to provide insight into student perceptions ofdesign by discussing the results of a survey that asked both first year and capstone undergraduatecivil engineering students to identify the components of several design and engineering designdefinitions that resonated most strongly with their experience and understanding of engineeringas a profession. In addition to sharing the results of this study, we review the literature on waysto expand student understanding of engineering design and provide recommendations, along

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert H. Mayer

remediation. The second, Ocean ResourcesEngineering, emphasizes methods for ocean resource assessment, recovery and utilization. Otherenvironmental engineering opportunities include the capstone design course required of allengineering majors, and elective courses in such disciplines as environmental economics,environmental oceanography, environmental security, and marine environmental engineering.The purpose of this paper is to address the evolution of this environmental engineering optionand to describe the content of its two fundamental courses. The paper also provides a briefdescription of recent environmental-related capstone design projects and reviews topicalcoverage of selected elective courses.IntroductionNearly 80% of the earth’s surface is

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Improving Technical Understanding of All Americans

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Kasarda, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Brenda Brand, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Michael Collver, Montgomery County Public Schools; Gabriel Goldman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

successfully with the high-school population. Kasarda [3,4] described servicelearning and outreach aspects associated with the pilot year of the new capstone design course.Now in its second year, the authors have recognized, and have enhanced, aspects of the capstone Page 13.1282.2design project that facilitate the self-efficacy of both the undergraduates and the high-schoolstudents in technological and STEM literacy.Of all of the ITEA Standards of Technological Literacy [3] Standard 8: Students will develop anunderstanding of the attributes of design; Standard 9: Students will develop an understanding ofengineering design; and Standard 10: Students

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2024 ASEE-GSW

Authors

Sanjoy K. Bhattacharia, West Texas A&M University; Fisseha Meresa Alemayehu, West Texas A&M University; Tyresse Xavier Law, West Texas A&M University; Saman Aria, West Texas A&M University

project will enhance the current system for abetter arrangement and location of sensors used. IntroductionA capstone project is a key component to assessing a student’s comprehension of the knowledgeobtained throughout their undergraduate studies as well as their readiness to enter the next stage intheir careers. One of the primary benefits of a capstone project is that it helps students bridge the gap Proceedings of the 2024 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX Copyright © 2024, American Society for Engineering Education 2between the

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ASEE 2021 Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

Authors

Matilda Ho, University of Texas at Dallas; Casey Hatfield; Jieun Kim

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Diversity

tool for control systems Matilda Ho Mechanical Engineering Student University of Texas at Dallas AbstractAmong engineering students, control systems are a notoriously challenging subject for itsabstractness—making difficult to connect each of its subtopics for a comprehensive understanding.The undergraduate capstone project discussed in this paper focused on developing a free, onlineeducation tool for control systems that integrates the traditional curriculum with interactivecomponents to create a more comprehensive learning experience. The technical products used todevelop the learning tool