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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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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

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Sarah Seraj; June Young Park; Michael Pieratt

firm andThe engineers’ job was to help voters make an informed one group from a consulting firm, have been hired to dodecision about which policy (or party) to vote for, while some initial analyses on the proposed construction project.helping politicians craft the right policy. The voters’ job was The residents of Rainbow Town are voters with differentto protect their own livelihoods. professions who will vote for one of the political parties We had three objectives for our activity. First, connect based on their personal objectives. Each political party willstudents with real-world engineering ethical issues on a try to convince the voters to support their

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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

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Matt Leonard; Joseph Morgan; Jeremy P. Coffelt

the world. A DSTR workshop hasbeen offered to engineering faculty in China and was thetopic of discussion during a recent visit from the provost ofSaigon Institute of Technology.3.2 Commercialization T STAR is working with MISL to commercialize DSTRtechnology. T STAR has found that DSTR is a platform thatlends itself to several market areas including education,space, and mining. The educational market needs a DSTR type of platformthat allows application of various skills by students. DSTR-E (Engineering) kits, like the one shown in Figure 6, requirestudents to use a variety of skills, both mechanical andelectronic. The students are required to cut tubes to thecorrect lengths, drill holes and solder wires. After themechanical assembly is

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Kenneth Van Treuren

worldaccomplished. To finish the process, each company application with real world expectations. Thepresented their engine to the class as if they were trying to ability to design our own engine that could besell the engine to a customer, the professor. While all applied to an already existing aircraft was aengines satisfied the mission requirements, the customer very cool project.”picked an overall winner based on the informationpresented (i.e. engine component design choices, “It gave an insight into industry which Iperformance, weight, cost, and mission capability). A prize appreciated. Not many classes cover(aviation related books) was given to each member of the

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Christine Julien

the general area ofweek summer intensive program in 2017, including computer science but will easily become frustrated when facedassessments done to evaluate the curriculum. with the task of building any system of real size and scale. Our hypothesis is that we can successfully couple the introduction1. Introduction of good software engineering practice with engaging andIn recent years, computer science education has been pushed meaningful IoT application development activities that

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Yu-Fang Jin

skills.States. This course is the first course that provides a In this study, we proposed an easily applicable modulesystemic view of engineering designs and links classroom for critical thinking training with a series of lectures onknowledge to real-world applications. Training students for cognition, critical thinking skills, and examples of applyingcritical thinking (CT) skills in this class is essential to their critical thinking skills in classroom problem solving andcareer success. However, a high D and F grades and real-world engineering applications. Students werewithdraw (DFW) rate has been observed in this course for encouraged to foster a critical thinking habit not only

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Timothy Urban; Margaret Baguio

their thinking critically and and eye-opening summer experiences because I neveranalytically, analyzing numerical and statistical information, thought I would be privy to satellite technology andacquiring job- or work-related knowledge and skills, missions and learn so much about how these satelliteworking effectively with others, understanding people ofother backgrounds, solving complex real-world problems. missionstellussomuchaboutourenvironmentandthe world we live in. So much data is gathered

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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

. More so, student gainedis less than 60 J/s in Graph 2. valuable experience in applying system integration Lastly, the rpm output of the Stirling engine is to a design problem. Finally, students learned toshown in graph 3 of Figure 6. It is important to note relate the application of system integration to real-that the rpm of the Stirling engine is a direct world problems in a case study.multiple of the voltage production. Thismultiplication factor turned out to be 3.2.3 IMPACTS OF THE MULTI-0.01V/rad/sec and this value is realistic and SUBSYSTEM DESIGN PROJECTachievable with a small DC motor. To further analyses the impact of a

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John R. Clegg; Kenneth R. Diller

. first author was also present, and participated in dialogues ranging from the class work to career plans, summer travel,Students find open-ended challenge problems engaging, generic complaints, current events, and the rain in England (ormotivating, and interesting. The real-world applicability and lack thereof). Students had the opportunity to discuss theirthe collaborative and creative nature of their solution also suits respective backgrounds, interests, goals, aspirations

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Oziel Rios

the tolerances were purposely chosen to be large in valueconventional and geometric tolerancing. for illustration purposes. Real-world applications may A survey of the literature highlights the importance of implement smaller tolerance values but the reasoning andGeometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) calculations involved would be the same.including reducing costs by decreasing waste, producingcomponents that are interchangeable, and allows designers Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference

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Brian P. Bernard; Rui Cao; Maureen Russo RodrÕguez

, asmall, private, liberal arts universities, where each compelling reason that engineering should look to increasespecializes in a small number of different world languages its distance offerings is to reach out to underrepresentedto increase the course offerings to their students without the populations (including but not necessarily limited to women,expense of adding additional faculty on every campus. Each minorities, low income, and first-generation), many ofuniversity offers their language courses to consortium whom attend small colleges and universities that don'tstudents in a real-time, interactive, distance education currently offer an engineering degree.format. In Fall 2017, the consortium

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David Ewing

their first semester or not, if we are to seeclass togheter. Students work in their teams around the the true difference ENGR 1300 has made.marker boards solving real-world engineering problems,rather than simply relying on notes and examples from theprofessor.3. Results and discussion3.1 Overall Engineering RetentionThe ultimate goal for implementing ENGR 1300 and theSCALE-Up method was to increase engineering studentretention. Up until this point, results have been reported onthe increasing pass rates of students, regardless of student Figure 2. First year engineering retention ratesgroup characteristics [4-6]. Now that ENGR 1300 has been considering whether students took ENGR 1300 in theirimplemented for over

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Pranav A. Bhounsule; Ahmad Taha; Sebastian Nugruho

provide a positive influence of the interest of girls towardsfamilies. Although the overall excitement towards STEM topics [7].engineering was unchanged after the camp, the girls weremore excited and learned more about robotics and control It is important to keep the young students who are learningsystems as a result of the camp. new tools interested in what they are doing. This was achieved in a number of ways. (1) We used real-worldThere were several interesting things that we observed applications for the labs. For example, line following robotsduring the course of the camp

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Xiaohua Li

that can be used in community, students gain knowledge and skills by workingundergraduate heat transfer class for Project-Based collaboratively in groups on real-world, hands-on industrialLearning: Optimization of an immersion wort chiller for a projects with a prototype or a completed design work as thesmall-scale home beer brewing process. deliverable. Major benefits for students who participated in Project-Based Learning include achieving higher level ofStudents were self-grouped with three to five students in motivation, greater depth of understanding of basiceach group. Each group was then provided