Collection

2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Julia N. Savoy; Mia K. Markey; H. Grady Rylander III

E-mail: mia.markey@utexas.edu; rylander@mail.utexas.edu Abstract has focused on the supervisor’s impact through in academic Excellent relationships between predoctoral students and advising, skill development, and career developmentfaculty supervisors can lay the foundation for a satisfying mentoring [10]. Despite the important role supervisors candegree program and productive future. Contrarily, poor play, one study found that as much as 36% of doctoralrelationships can frustrate both students and supervisors. students receive no career advice, and another 20% receiveWe examined mentoring experiences focused on career less than they

Collection

2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Jorge Leon; Angie Hill Price; Mathew Kuttolamadom

for their programare currently offered in the nation and particularly in the objectives, structure and impact.state of Texas, and to reflect on their core learning Purdue University Northwest has offered a Master ofobjectives, structure, demand, demographics, and impact. Science in Technology since 2008 [1]. The program hasThe trends identified were discussed in light of assembling sub-disciplines including Mechanical Engineeringa Master of Science in Engineering Technology (MSET) Technology as an option for students. In a study reviewingdegree with a concentration in Manufacturing and the strengths of the program, Zahraee and Latif [2] notedMechanical Engineering Technology (MMET) within the

Collection

2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Margo Cousins; Brandi DeMont; Laura Suggs; Mia K. Markey

richresearch, regardless of their funding source, we sought to mentorship environment provides students with an in-depthfacilitate their identification with a larger, diverse student introduction to a career as a researcher and can thereforecohort. Criteria across the programs introduced challenges have a large impact on their identity as a scientist early into establishing a shared community, such as subsets of their undergraduate career, allowing them the time toAffiliated Scholars entering the summer program with adequately prepare for successful admission to andexisting social relationships. We will discuss specific completion of a graduate degree program. [2] By blendingchallenges and

Collection

2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

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

Collection

2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

John Attia; Mahamadou tembely; Lisa Hobson; Pamela Obiomon

experiences moreparadigms have been proposed to improve engineering engaging and motivating for students [3, 4, 5]. There areeducation, such as the use of “hands-on” tools to change benefits of having portable hands-on learning equipment.the learning style in the engineering classroom to more Among the benefits are improved student engagement [6, 7,engaging teaching pedagogies. An approach that is being 8], and improved student learning [9]. In addition, theused to engage and retain electrical and computer usage of portable equipment allows the hands-on activitiesengineering students is the Analog Discovery board (ADB). to be adaptable to traditional lecture courses [4, 10, 11

Collection

2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Brian P. Bernard; Rui Cao; Maureen Russo RodrÕguez

become impractical or less impactful. In Fall 2017, Countless previous studies have shown that similar Statics student projects involving force sensors were learning outcomes can be achieved in a variety of delivery converted to classroom demonstrations since remote formats, however, the research methodologies, sample sizes, students did not have access to the same equipment. and accountancy of outside variables is often inconsistent or o Some distance learners may feel uncomfortable facing inadequate in these types of work24-25, making it difficult to a camera that records all their movements. generalize the results. Instead, engagement and satisfaction

Collection

2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Yu-Fang Jin

% 76% attendance rate Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference The University of Texas at Austin April 4-6, 20184.2 Impact of Critical Thinking Training on Student presenting time (38%) was recorded. In addition, studentsPerformance receiving, group discussion, and hands-on working time While an average of CTA score of training groups was were 38%, 38%, and 16%, respectively. With the guided69.6 against the average of 59.5 for students from the student working, it was much easier

Collection

2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Talal D. Gamadi; Bethany Disque; Marshal Watson; Lloyd Heinze

benchmarking these 1. This involves obtaining performance evaluationresults against other programs. Additionally, actions are results for each performance metric and itsguided by faculty discussions at SO and PEO reviews, corresponding attainability criterion for each studentusing input from members of our External Advisory Board, outcome and aggregating these results to obtain thealumni, employers, and students. The Undergraduate overall result of the attainability of each SO.Committee presents its recommendation to the faculty, and 3. Interpretation of the evaluation results on the programif needed, votes are taken. Changes are vetted by the including the impact of

Collection

2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Steve E. Watkins; Nancy M. Ostin

-collegecost and personnel time from the department and faculty. outreach4. Chapters can be rewarded for the extent and A department or school has numerous needs for student impact of their engagement activities with organizationalrepresentation in formal and informal capacities. The activity awards for the best or outstanding chapters.membership process of the honor society has identifiedstudents who have succeeded in the program and who have 4. Best Practices of an Honor Societygood leadership and communication skills. These students 4.1 Making an Honor Society Effectivecan provide a valuable student perspective related to The first function of an academic honor

Collection

2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Margo Cousins; Daniel Puperi

studentswho did not participate in a fall FIG. While FIGs have been 1.1 Teamwork measurementshown to increase retention[1] and we have observed a Section 2 of the survey measured the students’positive impact on attitudes toward engineering, we have perception of their teamwork ability, which is relatednot yet been able to correlate these successes to engineering directly to ABET Student Outcome d: an ability to functionstudent outcomes as defined by the Accreditation Board for on multi-disciplinary teams. This included 9 Likert-scaleEngineering and Technology (ABET). In order to better questions adapted from Tseng et al. (2009) in measuringunderstand if the FIG success is correlated to engineering the

Collection

2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Vijaya Gopu; Ayman Okeil; Roger Seals

equipment in the application modules.presentation and provided with a detailed schedule of It was also clear that the proposed pedagogical modeldeadlines and activities. engages the students in an active learning environment that fosters larger participation from the students. Further, post- treatment survey results revealed that the time it takes the7. Some Selected Implementation Issues students to review the material is reasonable (1.5 hours per Since project principals did not necessarily teach the module on average).relevant implementation

Collection

2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Jitendra Tate; Craig Hanks; Harold Stern; Walt Trybula

still-new Ingram School of under the guidance of an advisory council made up ofEngineering. During work on an NSF funded grant, nanotechnology experts from academia and industry.we were able to infuse ethics related modules in 13 One important goal of the project was to recruit,different courses, across three colleges and at all engage, prepare, and encourage students fromlevels of undergraduate study. Three members of our traditionally underrepresented groups into careers inteam (Hanks, Tate, Trybula) were PIs or Senior Science and Engineering. In our third year we revisedPersonnel on the NSF grant project, and the fourth the curricula in the introductory course to

Collection

2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

John R. Clegg; Kenneth R. Diller

Transition Group Work Challenges Student Routine Storytelling 0 Presentations Examples 2 4 Post Class Activity WeekFigure 4: Impact of class activity on student engagement, relative Figure 5: Evolution of proportion of students thatto lecture. n=426

Collection

2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Chaoyi Wang; Michael Frye; Sreerenjini Nair

computer programming have many benefits. EngineeringSummer Conference and Banquet was held for all campers, education links the real-world context to the learning oftheir parents, and teachers on August 4. STEM subjects, the ability of problem-solving,1.2 The shifts from STEM to STEAM Camp communication, and teamwork skills. The application of STEAM has been viewed as other approaches to computation thinking gives rise to opportunities forincrease students’ interests and improve study accesses to mathematics education. Therefore, higher recognition,STEM in many researches.1 Students’ creative and critical elevation, and attention should be

Collection

2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Rochelle Williams; Sherri Frizell; Felecia Nave; Audie Thompson

G.A.L.S. camp for each applicant. 10ft and 30ft. The students learned that MechanicalThe following items were taken into consideration in Engineers use material composition, weight capacity andassessing perceived benefit: effects of impact when designing and making instruments, Students who identified factors that most influenced tools and vehicles. their future career plans that aligned with the Participants were exposed to bridge design during the objectives of the camp civil engineering project on day 2. This lesson focused on Students who had misconceptions about the role how bridges are engineered to

Collection

2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Jafar F. Al-Sharab; Curtis Desselles; Robert Dalling; Mauricio Escobar; Ariell Shield; Hoa Nguyen; McKenzie Cutrer; Will Heitman

facilities. Almost all these activities target the K-12importance, lots of efforts focused on the K-12 STEM educators. Students involved in these makers or STEMeducation. Recently many reforms have appeared to activities are normally engaged in projects which progressaddress the scientific reasoning, critical thinking, and in complexity and students are trained to be independent.problem solving approaches. One of the ways to addressthe enquiry-based learning is through regular structured and In August 2016 the NSU-LSMSA Makers Club waswell-designed STEM activities

Collection

2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Okan Caglayan; Sreedevi Ande P.E.; Erik Coronado; Max Martinez; Samuel Handowski

objectives of the camp were (1) to improve the student’s analytics through coding and hands-on roboticspreparation for a rigorous STEM degree, (2) to increase their activities [1, 2, 3].skills in communication and data analytics through coding The outcome of the first objective was accomplished by theand robotics. This paper describes the teaching materials that presentations made by the guest speakers from variouswe utilized, the results of students evaluations, lessons industries, such as Southwest Research Institute, Boeing,learned and the future work. Rackspace, and First Year Engagement Office at UIW. Their

Collection

2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Timothy Urban; Margaret Baguio

the two weeks1. Introduction onsite. Through a partnership of institutions and organizations Interns are selected on the basis of their academic records,that support STEM education, the Summer Intern Program written application that includes written essay questions, letter ofeffort began in 2010 as a three-year cooperative recommendation, and video about their interest in STEM. TheEducation/Public Outreach (EPO) extension of several CSR potential program impact on students is also considered. Housing,NASA ROSES awards (Research Opportunities in Space meals, and local transportation are provided for those selected.and Earth Science

Collection

2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Sarah Seraj; June Young Park; Michael Pieratt

systematic barriers that interfere with engineering ethicsobjective of the activity varied based on what role each education [3]. The main discrepancy is that students lackstudent was playing. The politicians’ job was to further the emotional engagement with the materials. To bridge thisobjectives of their own party while simultaneously keeping gap, we developed a classroom-based town hall meetingtheir voter base happy. The engineers’ job was to help voters activity that demonstrates the ethics issues that may arisemake an informed decision about which policy (or party) to when engineers are working on real-life community projectsvote for, while helping politicians craft the right policy. The or helping craft

Collection

2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Colby Ryan; Alexis Crandall; Mitch Martinez; David Kennedy; Kristian Ecolango; Jay Porter; Joseph Morgan

have sponsored Capstonethrough laboratory, course projects and Capstone. These have been so impressed with results that they wind upinclude: hiring one or several of the members of the team. Often • Better engagement of students and industry in the times an ESET graduate will be chosen over other learning process: From the stand-point of the applicants to a job position because the company sees the student, real-world projects that involve current scope of the Capstone project on the graduate’s resume and technology and industrial applications are realizes that that applicant will be a valuable addition to

Collection

2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Hung-da Wan; Nihar Gupta

This paper aims at identifying the key design factorshands-on activities facilitate active, experiential, and that affect the performance of simulation games forcollaborative learning with fun elements. Many simulation teaching systems engineering concepts. By reviewinggames have been developed in the past, but not all are designs of several existing simulation games, the analysisequally effective. How to design a simulation game that is of strength and weaknesses of these games revealseffective and easy to implement? This paper attempts to important design factors to be considered. These designidentify the key design factors that affect the performance factors are further analyzed to verify their impacts

Collection

2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Pranav A. Bhounsule; Ahmad Taha; Sebastian Nugruho

LeadershipWe end the paper by giving some suggestions for future Academy for her help with recruitment of the students, andcamps: to the following students for serving as instructors and teaching assistants: Lindsey Fett, Julian Salas, Sebastian1.   Have experienced people handle the logistics: While Nugroho, Eric Sanchez, Joseph Galloway, Steven Farra, we worked on the scientific/engineering aspect of the Diane Squire, and Gerardo (Aaron) Rios. workshop, the logistics aspect (certificates, catering, communicating with the school) was taken care by the References outreach office in the