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Ryan C Cooper

Project-based engineering competition in upper-level engineering laboratory Ryan C. CooperAbstractIn this paper, I discuss novel features in an upper-level engineering course that have been used toenhance technical writing and problem-solving skills. I redesigned the course in Fall 2018 toprepare students to make engineering decisions and accomplish design goals. My short-termobjectives were to prepare the students to start their capstone projects senior year and improvetechnical writing. The laboratory course includes a number of novel features: specificationsgrading, interactive Jupyter lab handouts, and problem- and project-based learning.Problem-solving

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Anusha Srinivas; Peter Stupak

Regenerative Hydrogen Fuel Charging Conference, Morgan State University, System”, ASEE 2017, Paper ID #18988. Baltimore, Maryland. April 2017, https://peer.asee.org/29257 4. A.J. Dutson, R.H. Todd, S.P. Magleby, C.D. Sorensen, “A Review of Literature on Teaching Engineering Design Through Project Oriented Capstone Courses,” Journal of Engineering Education, January 1997, p. 17 - 28. 5. E.C.Foust. "Project-Based Learning (PBL) in the First-Year Engineering Design Class". 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference, 2021, July. ASEE

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Courtney D. Giles

and bias, and the ability to leveragecampus resources. A project-based structure was adopted to incorporate these learning outcomesinto two projects: (1) “Micro-Design Projects”, to practice teamwork and design while buildingsimple mechanisms and structures (floating table, mechanical hand, water-balloon launcher), (2)“Semester-long Projects”, in which students address a campus-based problem, posed by apartnering campus organization (Facilities, Waste, Transportation, Health and Wellness). In bothcases, students voted on their desired project and were placed into interdisciplinary teams.Semester project options spanned three themes (Energy, Resources, Health) and seven specificchallenges. Students presented their proposed solutions to the

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Social Justice Green Engineering 10:00 am LIGHTNING TALKS Innovation Studio Amphitheater (1st floor) STUDENT POSTER SESSION Room Innovation Studio (2nd floor) 10:30 am Engineering Capstones K-12 STEM Outreach DEI / Social Justice Hybrid & Remote Learning Project Based Learning Sustainability12:00 noon AWARDS LUNCH Best Paper and Campus Rep Awards; Campus Center Odeum (2nd floor) Best Student Paper, Poster 1:30 pm ASEE

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Sarah Dulac; Jacques Ross; Joseph Silveira; Chandler Jardin; Andrea Elloian; Kevin Raggiani; Dylan Souza; Tyler Viera; Alec Peinkofer; Darion Gregory; Konrad Jamro; Hamed Samandari; Banafsheh Seyed-Aghazadeh

flow velocity where VIV occurs is known asthe lock-in region. A floating offshore platform can lose its stability under VIV, which is theobjective to be investigated in our study. This project was completed for the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth MechanicalEngineering Senior Capstone project and the team, in collaboration with business students fromSt. Bonaventure University to compete in the 2021 Marine Energy Collegiate Competition(MECC) that was sponsored by the Department of Energy. The MECC provided the challenge touniversity students to develop a market-research-supported business plan, pitch their plan and havethe option to compete in the build and test portion of the competition where the proposed energydevice is tested

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Dirk R. Albrecht

, reported two weeks later an officialdiagnosis by a specialist of “borderline right axis deviation” from a clinical 12-lead ECGrecording. We disclaim in the course that we are not trained physicians and should not make anyhealth diagnoses in class, yet it is gratifying to observe consistency between clinical and student-made ECG measurements.Impacts of the lab activities are seen in later years as well. For example, senior-year capstonedesign projects and junior-year biomedical design projects increasingly incorporate Arduino-based instrumentation. Whereas no biomedical engineering capstone projects used Arduinosystems before introducing them in the bioinstrumentation class, after four years, 11 of 29projects used them in successful design projects