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Alireza Yazdanshenas; Joseph Oyedele; Emilli Morrison; Chung Hyun Goh

Practicum of Systems Integration in Engineering Education Alireza Yazdanshenas, Joseph Oyedele, Emilli Morrison, Chung Hyun Goh* Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Tyler 3900 University Blvd, Tyler, TX, 75799, U.S.A. *cgoh@uttyler.edu Abstract desired product. Systems integration (SI) facilitates efficient delivery for the overarching This project asked engineering students to functionality in the product. This SI technique hasdevelop a multi-subsystem design that would been widely used in many companies, even thoughproduce electricity

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P.L.Stephan Thamban; Dani Fadda P.E.

study conducted during the lecture sessions.  1. Introduction The instructors, while attending a workshop on Academic institutions use a lecture based engineering education [4], were exposed to how ineffectiveapproach and a problem-based-learning (PBL) approach to lecture sessions can be to student-learning when a mindfulteach core/foundational subjects and to convey content. effort is not made by instructors to keep them engaged.These are distinctly different in that, while lectures are While engaged classroom may be accepted as a generalconsidered deductive, PBL approaches are deemed teaching philosophy across

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Steve E. Watkins; Nancy M. Ostin

available within positive impacts across the university community. Foruniversity communities. These student organizations can chapters to go beyond their first function of studentfill valuable roles within engineering departments. The recognition, best practices of effective chapters need to beinception of engineering-related honor societies followed shared.the establishment of engineering education within This paper addresses academic honor societies forAmerican universities. Honor societies with their student engineering education. These student organizations werefocus grew as complementary organizations to the developed to recognize student excellence to the benefit ofprofessional

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Noe Vargas Hernandez; Arturo Fuentes; Stephen Crown

create a self-innovation community or As explained in the previous subsection, when talkingecosystem, which has to be nourished by the institution. about innovation skill in engineering education, theThese successful students will continue their transformation reviewed literature focuses on the skill needed to prepareinto professional innovators to tackle critical needs in their students as innovators and entrepreneurs for theirrespective regions. This transformation of self, community professional life; in other words, for success after their(as a student), and region (as a professional) can become a graduation [18]. Understandably, this should be sufficientmodel that can be transferred to other institutions

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Tony McClary; Jacqueline A. Zeiber; Patricia Sullivan; Steven Stochaj

thethese programs. For example, motivation influences the limitations of learning context itself such that participantsdegree to which participants are engaged with activities as will be unable to complete designs if the expectations fordoes their background knowledge [4]. Additionally, the design exceed the constraints of their environment [4].program effectiveness is impacted by the limitations of the Recent research in engineering education has shown thatlearning context itself such that participants will be unable project-based learning classes can help to improveto complete designs if expectations for the design exceed motivation of students, increase students’ interest inthe constraints of their

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Nisha Abraham; Nina Telang

ofindividuals with a high level of expertise and prefer group Supplemental Instruction Programming on First Yearwork only when they have created their own study groups. Academic Success. In Conference proceedings of AmericanThis could be a reflection of self-efficacy, control and self- Society of Engineering Education 2017 annual conference,direction that students value, and therefore influence their Columbus, Ohio.attendance to SI sessions. The consistency of the grade datacomparisons for attendees versus non-attendees is shown [4] Malm, J., Bryngfors, L., & Mörner, L. L. (2012).over two years, but identifying similar students using Supplemental instruction for improving first year results instandardized

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Brian P. Bernard; Rui Cao; Maureen Russo RodrÕguez

technology. The paper will also or distance education offers an alternative solution throughreflect on the impact of this particular technological which small universities can expand their offerings, withoutimplementation on various teaching styles in both foreign needing to shoulder the added costs of acquiring all of thelanguage and engineering courses, especially compared to additional faculty, space, and equipment that wouldother distance engineering education in the literature, with a otherwise be necessary to implement such programming. Aspurpose of analyzing the model’s suitability for expansion an example, Concordia, Lubbock Christian, Schreiner,into other engineering courses or a fully accredited

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Peggy Kulesz; David Ewing

. [5] Clayton, T., “Argument against Separate Writing4. Conclusion and Future work Courses for Engineers”, Journal of Professional Issues In summary, after a pilot semester and one full in Engineering Education and Practice, vol. 122, no. 3,semester, we have seen students improve in their audience p. 111-113 (1996)awareness and supportive argumentation through cover [6] Woodworth, M., “The Rhetorical Précis”, Rhetoricletters and recommendation reports. Review, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 156–164 (1998) Although we were confident that the précis assignment [7] Marzec-Stawiarska, M., “The Influence of Summarywould benefit students, streamline

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John Attia; Mahamadou tembely; Lisa Hobson; Pamela Obiomon

experimental centric pedagogy to their students [17, 18, 19]. The board communicates to a computerSeveral new pedagogical paradigms have been proposed to through a USB interface. The operating software,improve engineering education, such as the use of hands- WaveForms, can be downloaded free from Digilent websiteon tools to change the learning style in engineering [12]. The operating software, WaveForms, provides all Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference The University of Texas at Austin April 4-6, 2018instrument

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Jorge Leon; Angie Hill Price; Mathew Kuttolamadom

approved is slated to commence in Fall-2019. Future workattending A&M as well as add competitive advantage to the includes continued refinement of the curriculum and otherindustrial sponsor. program details.Other Recruiting & Marketing Programs:The following recruiting and marketing programs will bedeveloped as needed to ensure planned enrollment levels: Referenceso Print advertising – Industry related trade publications [1] Zahraee, M. A., & Latif, N. (2017). Building and and engineering education journals. Sustaining a Successful Graduate Degree in Technology.o

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Xiaohua Li

decades in the engineering educational community. investigating and finding solutions for open-end, complexMajor benefits for students who participated in Project- problems with no definite “correct” answers. One commonBased Learning include achieving higher level of concern about problem-based learning is that students maymotivation, greater depth of understanding of basic not understand what is most important for them to learn,concepts, increased creativity, improved teamwork skills and for many engineering problems, unique correct answerand interpersonal communication skills. In this paper we does exist. In project-based learning in engineeringreported a fun example project

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John R. Clegg; Kenneth R. Diller

hope that the student-centered, biomedical engineering 35, 1312-1323 (2007).content-specific nature of methods in this case study can serve 10 Rayne, K. et al. The development of adaptive expertise inas a basis for unique and instructive assessment of active biomedical engineering ethics. Journal of Engineering Education 95, 165-173 (2006).learning environments in engineering. 11 Kuhn, D., Black, J., Keselman, A. & Kaplan, D. The development of cognitive skills to support inquiry learning

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David Ewing

[1] Beichner, R., J. Saul, R. Allain, D. Deardorff, and D. Abbot, “Introduction to SCALE-UP: Student-Centered Activities for Large Enrollment University Physics,” presented at the Annual meeting for the American Society for Engineering Education, St. Louis, MS (2000). [2] Ingram, B., M. Jesse, S. Fleagle, J. Florman, and S. Van Figure 8

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Christine Julien

. Even academic research on software delivered through online modules that students consume atengineering education remains focused on these much later their own pace. Class time is devoted entirely to hands-on teamstages of a student’s education. activities that demonstrate software engineering principles as Lack of student interest in computer science education applied to creating IoT applications. Prior work in softwaregenerally and software engineering specifically has received a engineering education has promoted the use of such flipped Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference The

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Hung-da Wan; Nihar Gupta

Antonio and at sponsors’ sites. References Fig. 11 Standard Pig Game for Quality [11] [1] “The 5S Numbers Game,” (https://www.lean.org/Step 4: Check the Feasibility FuseTalk/Forum/Attachments/5S%20GAME.PPT, This game is also economical and easily repeatable. accessed 1/15/2018).The only consumable is the blank paper and grid paper. [2] Kanigolla, D., Cudney, E.A., and Corns, S.M.,The run time can be adjusted easily. If time is a constraint, “Enhancing Engineering Education Using Project-basedthe first or second phase can be ignored. Learning for Lean and Six Sigma