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John R. Clegg; Kenneth R. Diller

. Acknowledgement Cognition and Instruction 18, 495-523 (2000).Many thanks to all of the students who willingly and 12 Prince, M. J. & Felder, R. M. Inductive teaching andenthusiastically participated in this study, who motivate us all learning methods: Definitions, comparisons, and researchto be better teachers and researchers. Special thanks to course bases. Journal of engineering education 95, 123-138Learning Assistant Elissa Barone (UT Austin) for her support (2006).of this project, and statistical consulting provided by the UT 13 Lane, E. S. & Harris, S. E. A new tool for measuring student behavioral

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Matt Leonard; Joseph Morgan; Jeremy P. Coffelt

could be constructed from As depicted in Figure 1, the Digital Systems Teaching 3D-printed parts and other mechanical and electronicand Research (DSTR – pronounced “Disaster”) Robot is a components which can be purchased at a local hardwarefour-wheeled, articulated-leg suspension mobile platform store or from numerous on-line sources. The primary focusthat can operate in a tele-operate or autonomous mode. The of the DSTR Robot is to be an experiential educationsuspension is a unique aspect of the robot and allows the manipulative that motivates and inspires secondary andmobile platform to “walk” over obstacles it encounters. This college level students to pursue STEM-based careers,feature

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Sarah Seraj; June Young Park; Michael Pieratt

, practicalDevelopment facility would conduct research on the engineers, and we thought that they would make decisionspreservation of the natural ecology at Rainbow Town. based on the facts, instead of being swayed by promises that We did not give any physical or financial constraints to sounded good on the surface. It turned out that despite beingthe politician’s proposals, but regardless, the construction of only a simulation, our scenario reflected how things geta stadium with an attached wastewater facility, not to much more complicated in the real world. Facts and rhetoricmention the aquarium and the R&D lab, would be a get mixed up, and it is hard to make a cold judgement call.mammoth

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Noe Vargas Hernandez; Arturo Fuentes; Stephen Crown

workforcefamiliar guidance during their studies. Successful students and the economy of our Nation especially for thehave specific characteristics (i.e. skills) that allow them to underrepresented populations in the STEM workforce. Atthrive. In this paper the authors explore the necessary skills various higher education institutions, including minoritythat may allow students to self-transform and innovate into serving institutions, there is a need to address primary skillsuccessful engineering students. deficiencies in engineering students. These deficiencies in skills can be technical and non-technical (i.e

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

and ever-growing skills gap in STEM fields.more efficient learning experiences to the students. Engineering students at UT Tyler are not justThe benefits of systems integration can also be taught about system dynamics theory, but areexpanded to the professional world these students expected to deliver a design project to model andwill soon step into. Therefore, teaching these analyze a working dynamic and control system bytechniques now will give students a better further applying the New Product Development (NPD)insight on real world experience in a classroom process. Students are asked to develop full scalesetting. When students make the expected leap into Computer-Aided Design (CAD) models andthe job

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Young Lee; Jeong Yang

Reverse Engineering Environment for Teaching Secure Coding in Java Young Lee1, Jeong Yang2 1Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Texas A&M University-Kingsville Kingsville, TX 78414, U.S.A young.lee@tamuk.edu 2Dept.of Computing and Cyber Security Texas A&M University-San Antonio San Antonio, TX 78224 U.S.A. jeong.yang

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Hector A. Ochoa; Mukul V. Shirvaikar

of instructional year within the Pedagogical ApproachElectrical Engineering degree plan for Digital Systems courses 15 at different universities 10Curriculum Analysis 5One of the major considerations in teaching digital systems iswhere it should be placed within the curriculum. Which course 0or courses need to be pre-requisites? Do students need calculus Chip Based HDL Basedfor this specific course? Do they need to know about C++programing? If the course uses FPGAs to teach digital systems, Fig. 3

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Viktor N_ssi; Ana Goulart

thestore what they learned in their long-term memory. By Communications and Networking Department (Comnet), atlearning well something and seeing how it is applied, Aalto University, in Finland, that has a common laboratoryengineering students will apply what they learned to solve setup for teaching and research. Through collaborationnew problems, to create prototypes, to innovate. between Texas A&M University and Aalto University, a group of American students took a Wireless TransmissionAs an example of experiential learning, consider an Course at Aalto University in the Summer of 2017 (Fig. 1).undergraduate course on Wireless

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Hung-da Wan; Nihar Gupta

Designing Effective Simulation Games for Active Learning in Systems Engineering Hung-da Wan and Nihar GuptaCenter for Advanced Manufacturing and Lean Systems and Mechanical Engineering Department University of Texas at San Antonio 1 UTSA Circle, San Antonio, Texas 78249, USA E-mail: hungda.wan@utsa.edu, nihar_gupta11@yahoo.com Abstract question is raised here: How to design a simulation game Simulation games have been an effective method of that is effective and easy to implement?teaching, especially for Systems Engineering concepts. The

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Stephany Coffman-Wolph; Kimberlyn Gray; Marcia Pool

Work-in-Progress: Research Plan for Introducing Problem Solving Skills through Activities to an Introductory Computer Science Course Stephany Coffman-Wolph, Kimberlyn Gray, and Marcia Pool Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin 2317 Speedway, Austin, TX, 78712, USA E-mail: sscw@cs.utexas.edu Department of Chemical Engineering, West Virginia University Institute of Technology 512 S Kanawha St, Beckley, WV, 25801, USA E-mail: Kimberlyn.Gray@mail.wvu.edu Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at

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Michael R. Gardner; Nina K. Telang

classical SLA pedagogical approaches, language is split intoprocesses in engineering students. Recent research has shown two categories of skills.[2], [3] Receptive skills includethat employing second language acquisition (SLA) techniques listening and reading, whereas productive skills include writingto teach programming increases exam performance and student and speaking. For the language learner, each of these skills ismotivation compared to more classical approaches. However, important for developing fluency. The learner will only be ablethe presentation of pedagogical techniques has been largely to function well using the target language if she can receivelimited to higher-level languages with more

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Daniel Puperi

Extending an alginate drug delivery experiment to teach computational modeling and engineering analysis to 1st year biomedical engineering students Daniel Puperi The University of Texas at Austin Department of Biomedical Engineering 107 W. Dean Keeton St C0800, Austin, TX 78712 E-mail: danpuperi@utexas.edu Abstract programs across the United States[2]. The class (now called BME

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Christine Julien

course has three broad limited relevance [20] and a culturally inculcated “fear” thatgoals: (1) to make software engineering fun and applicable, programming is inherently (too) difficult to learn [18].with the aim of recruiting traditionally underrepresented However, research has also shown that exposure to hands-ongroups into computing; (2) to make young students begin to computer science in the K-12 years can positively impactapproach problems with a design mindset; and (3) to

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Mena Souliman

Implementation of a Hybrid Teaching Environment for a Traffic Engineering Course Mena Souliman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor University of Texas at Tyler Department of Civil Engineering, 3900 University Blvd. RBS 1008, Tyler, TX 75799 E-mail: msouliman@uttyler.edu Abstract students, especially dependent learners, are less self- Students learn in different styles. They learn via hearing regulated and need persistent direction and guidance fromand visualizing. They can also reflect and act

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Sreedevi Ande P.E.

Studying the Effectiveness of Peer Instruction in Statics Sreedevi Ande, PhD., PE. The University of the Incarnate Word/Department of Engineering 4301 Broadway, CPO #285, San Antonio, Texas, 78209, USA E-mail: ande@uiwtx.edu Abstract was followed. It was interesting to observe that studentsThis paper describes the peer instruction approach that was formed teams naturally by their own accord on day one andused in teaching Statics. The subject of Statics lays the continued in the same teams through out the semester.foundation for

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Kenneth Van Treuren

Using Active Learning and Team Competition to Teach Gas Turbine Cycle Design Kenneth Van Treuren Baylor University/ Department of Mechanical Engineering One Bear Place #97356, Waco, TX, 76798, USA E-mail: Kenneth_Van_Treuren@baylor.edu Abstract which prepares Baylor students to be competitive in the An elective, Analysis and Design of Propulsion workplace. Making our students more aware of what willSystems, has been a traditional lecture course teaching gas be faced in the workplace was a motivation

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Joseph A. Donndelinger

both technical and “Our graduates…will be empowered by business perspectives. innovative problem-solving creativity and an entrepreneurial mindset1” Maintaining high levels of student engagement and interest is a widespread challenge in teaching EngineeringA broad-based effort is underway to instill an Economics6. The subject matter differs substantially fromEntrepreneurial Mindset within the Engineering programs at typical engineering course

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Roman Taraban; William M. Marcy

April 4-6, 2018 2. to create a website that provides an interface There were 804 visits to the articles and case studies on the between Texas Tech and foreign students to website. In order to submit a comment on the website, you exchange ideas regarding ethics and ethical must register on the website and be approved by Drs. practices Marcy or Taraban. In Fall 2017, 50 individuals joined the 3. to recruit foreign faculty partners who teach website. Thirty-eight of the website members are students. engineering ethics in order to develop a common Thirty students in ENGR 2392 wrote an analysis for extra

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Oziel Rios

An Example of Teaching Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) Concepts using 3D Printed Parts Oziel Rios, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering Department The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science (The Jonsson School) The University of Texas at Dallas 800 W. Campbell Rd., Richardson, TX, 75080, USA E-mail: oziel.rios@utdallas.edu Abstract to more clearly communicate functional relationships Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) is between features in drawings [4

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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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Raj Desai

Projects for Pallet Recycling in a Solid Modeling Course Raj Desai Midwestern State University, McCoy School of Engineering 3410 Taft Blvd., Wichita Falls, Texas, 76308, USA E-mail: raj.desai@mwsu.edu Abstract 2. Innovation The main objective of the projects in our solid modeling Project based learning is a good way to introducecourse was to find innovative ways of recycling pallets. innovation in a solid modeling course. Innovation can bePallets are the single largest consumer of hardwood lumber

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Nisha Abraham; Nina Telang

of attendance [6].surveys administered during the third and final week of the This work also found that influential individuals may besemester. able to promote attendance to SI sessions. However, this work was performed in an accounting class, whereas our interest is in first-year engineering courses, where little1. Introduction research has been performed. Our study focuses on a first- Supplemental instruction (SI) was created in 1973 at

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Cynthia C. Fry; Steven P. Potter

recognize the need for professionals who are able to bridge theintegration of the two fields.”[1] In Baylor University’s School divide between the disciplines and “integrate computation andof Engineering & Computer Science, the Embedded Systems physicality for the bottom up,” using non-traditional designcourse in the Department of Computer Science, and the methods.[4],[5]Embedded Systems Design course in the Department ofElectrical and Computer Engineering have been offered In Baylor

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

forplanned lifetime. students to learn “on the fly.” Similar to the previous bullet, most open-ended projects force students to6. Experiential Education develop skills in doing research and self-teaching in6.1 ESET Program Perspective order to achieve a successful outcome. The benefits of experiential education have been 6.1 Student Perspectivethe cornerstone of engineering technology since its Some students outside of the program view theinception. From having a laboratory experience in almost

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Chaoyi Wang; Michael Frye; Sreerenjini Nair

The Practices of Play and Informal Learning in the miniGEMS STEAM Camp Chaoyi Wang, Dr. Michael Frye, Dr. Sreerenjini Nair Autonomous Vehicle Systems Laboratory, University of the Incarnate Word 4301 Broadway Street, San Antonio, Texas, 78209, the United States E-mail: chwang2@student.uiwtx.edu Abstract on providing learning and research opportunities for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics underrepresented communities.(STEM) play an important role in the educational reform miniGEMS has developed very fast in the past threeand global economy. However, STEM

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Xiaohua Li

Immersion Wort Chiller Optimization: Project-Based Learning in Undergraduate Heat Transfer Xiaohua Li University of North Texas Mechanical & Energy Engineering, 3940 N Elm St, Suite F101, Denton, TX, 76207, USA E-mail: Xiaohua.li@unt.edu Abstract decades are problem-based learning (PBL) [2-6], and Project-Based Learning (PjBL) has been adopted as a project-based learning (PjBL) [7-10]. In problem-basedhighly effective teaching-learning style worldwide in the learning, students gain knowledge and skills bylast few

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John Etringer; Stephen OÍBrien; Austin Updegraff; Timothy Langerhans; Andrew Nadjari; Chan Kim; Aaron Hill; Michael Campbell

members of the West Point Steel Bridge Team arefive undergraduate seniors working to design and build a enrolled in a fall and spring semester course designed tosteel bridge for the annual ASCE Steel Bridge Competition. provide them with an opportunity to apply and synthesizeThe purpose of our group’s research is to discover how their knowledge of structural engineering, constructionmultidisciplinary teams perform in academically management and engineering economics in an open-ended,competitive environments. This project provides a unique realistic, semester-long, capstone design experience. Theopportunity in the field of multidisciplinary collaborative remaining member, a junior, is only enrolled

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Peggy Kulesz; David Ewing

Getting the Right Stuff with the Write Stuff: Instructional Methods to Improve Writing in a First Year Engineering Course Peggy Kulesz and David Ewing The University of Texas at Arlington 416 Yates Street, Arlington, TX, 76019, USA E-mail: kulesz@uta.edu and david.ewing@uta.edu Abstract For the last two and a half years, UTA has been Engineering Problem Solving (ENGR 1300) is a first teaching a new class for first year engineers namedyear engineering course at the University of Texas at Engineering Problem

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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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Cheng Lin; Yuzhong Shen; Nathan Luetke; Mileta Tomovic

Application Research Projects”,electro-pneumatic laboratory report for a seal-in circuit. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, 2012 ASEE Session AC5. Performance Analysis of Learning 2012-3481Outcome [3] Lynn, J., “Distance Education Options for Engineering Education”, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, The animation wiring software was used in summer Conference