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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Noe Vargas Hernandez; Arturo Fuentes; Stephen Crown

. personal or soft skills). Most of the current efforts from faculty and1. Introduction existing educational programs focus on developing The U.S. Census Bureau reports that Latinos accounted technical skills, where the faculty makes an extraordinaryfor only 6.5% of the STEM workforce in 2011, even effort to help students learn and understand the courses'though they comprised 17% of the population. Hispanics contents. This focus on technical skills is fundamental in anare not only the largest minority group in the U.S., engineering program, but the lack of non-technical skillsfollowed by

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

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

presentations emphasized the following skills/attributes that students need in order to be successful in college and career:1. Introduction  Time management – class attendance, planning, Soon-to-be high school graduates from around the class assignmentsworld apply to the University of the Incarnate Word (UIW)  Networking and communication – soft skills,for their STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Steve E. Watkins; Nancy M. Ostin

interest, electrical and computer engineering (ECE) Honor societies with a range of activities expand the primarily6,10. Most of our student members have manyopportunities for student members to develop through local student organizations from which to choose. Theyservice learning. An active chapter requires significant choose IEEE-HKN because it has the best set of benefits.management of schedules, finances, volunteer effort, etc. Our surveys show that the most mentioned benefits forAn effective chapter provides informal or formal training in joining the honor society are:leadership, communication, and other soft skills and offers • Recognition to assist with job search,immediate

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Hung-da Wan; Nihar Gupta

April 4-6, 2018 The vast amount of previously developed simulation easily without any visual aid. This case shows that thegames shed lights on the design factors affecting the contrast of the “before” and “after” phases in a simulationeffectiveness of the games. In the review of Badurdeen et game has to be significant enough to demonstrate theal. [6], the gaps of existing simulation games as (1) lack of concept to be taught.stress on soft skills, (2) a mistaken focus on “linear lean,”(3) misunderstanding of the key role of the facilitator, and 3.2 The LEGO Airplane Game – A Good Design(4) lack of realism. Based on practical experience, Wan et Next, a very well designed game is reviewed, theal. [9

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

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

seconds. It is important to is essential to transfer heat energy into the Sterlingunderstand that the simulation would import any engine.value of heat. However, the candle students used In addition to the hard skill learningin the physical model only had a maximum objectives, more valuable soft skill learning wascapability of 80 J/s. Therefore, it became important also done through this project. Students learned tothat the computer simulation would never ask for work effectively in interdisciplinary teams, sincea heat value over 80 J/s. It is shown that the the project consisted of multiple subsystems ofmaximum amount of heat needed to reach 0.3 volts multiple disciplines