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Abolfazl Amin; Israd Jaafar; Abdennour Seibi; Sean Tolman P.E.; Matthew Ballard

was realized that a very strong Capstone program was needed in each of the fourdisciplines of engineering. Team-based learning was the core of the Learning Outcomes inCapstone courses as required by ABET. The focus of this paper is on the Capstone course in theMechanical Engineering (ME) program. Capstone has been taught as ME-4810 and 4820 in twoconsecutive semesters as three-credit-hour courses. In the past five years practical projects havebeen assigned to teams of seniors with great success. Each team has been assigned a coach/mentorwho has advised and monitored each team’s progress. Extreme care was taken in requiringstudents to use a comprehensive engineering design process, perform correct engineering analysis,use CAD and FEA tools as

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Paul McMullin

A Framework for Teaching Project Based Structural Engineering CoursesPaul McMullinPaul is an educator, structural engineer, and mountaineer. He holds degrees in Mechanical and Civilengineering, and is a licensed engineer in numerous states. He worked through college as a steel detailer,and spent the last 20 years working on unusual (and ordinary) projects. His favorite work is on historic,industrial structures, on the verge of falling down (or well on their way). He is the lead editor of theArchitects Guidebook to Structures. In his spare time, he loves being with his wife and kids; climbing,hiking, sewing packs, remodeling the house, and living life. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023A Framework

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Melanie Butts; Isaac Manning; Abdennour Seibi; Matthew Ballard; Mohammad Shekaramiz; Abolfazl Amin

projectprovided us with an opportunity to gain many skills through dedication and commitment to thesuccess of the project. We gained the technical skills specific to the research approach in solvinga given project and developed professional skills by respecting deadlines and attending meetingsand being positive team members, which will prepare us to be ready for industry. Currently, theproblem-solving approach and teamwork skills developed in this research work have aided us andour colleagues involved in this project in our capstone and internship projects as well.ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work is supported by the Office of the Commissioner of Utah System of HigherEducation (USHE)-Deep Technology Initiative Grant 20210016UT.REFERENCES 1. N. M. Al

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devi kalla; Zsuzsa Balogh; Julio Proano; Jeno Balogh; Fred Barlow

fields.COURSES AND CURRICULAThe proposed Master of Engineering Program consisted of 30 credit hours grouped into corecourses taken by all students in the program, track courses from the discipline of interest (civil,electrical, or mechanical engineering), elective courses that provide depth and interdisciplinaryfocus depending on the student’s interest, and a graduate capstone project course to demonstrateapplicability of skills and synthesis of knowledge. Table 1 shows the program courses for each ofthe three track options. Each course is 3 credit hours.Table 1. Proposed Program Courses (program total 30 credit hours) Core Courses • EAET 5000 Engineering Modeling 9 credit hours • EAET 5001 Design Optimization (Choice of 3

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Eric Bogatin; Mona ElHelbawy

Measure Bode Plots in 5 MinutesEric BogatinDr. Eric Bogatin has been a full time professor in the Electrical, Computer, and Energy EngineeringDepartment at the University of Colorado Boulder since January 2021 where he has been teaching thePractical Printed Circuit Board and the Senior Design Capstone courses.Dr. Bogatin received his BS in physics from MIT in 1976 and MS and PhD in physics from theUniversity of Arizona in Tucson in 1980. In his graduate work, he focused on lasers, quantum optics anddesktop experiments on special relativity and cosmology using frequency stabilized lasers.Mona ElHelbawyDr. Elhelbawy joined ECEE on July 1, 2022. Prior to joining CU Boulder, she taught at Colorado Schoolof Mines, California Polytechnic State

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Ben Weihrauch

. The bonds of “shared struggle” wereforged through study groups, course project teams, and senior capstone project. Studyparticipants reported forming peer study groups to be crucial to their academic learning andformation of social connections. Daniel was proactive in starting and joining study groups: Because most of them were engineers, we just started studying together. So, I just met people in my dorm that were like exceptionally good in certain subjects. One guy literally sat down for two hours to teach me a concept that like I was really struggling with. So having a friend group to fall back on if I don’t understand something has been big for me.When study participants entered “in their major,” they reported