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Gholam H. Massiha; Shelton L. Houston

Lafayette, there was no programengineering management is a calculus-based program in the state of Louisiana to meet their educational needs.which focuses on problem solutions and associated designs. All STEC applicants are admitted to the UniversityOften, the engineer is the project lead in assessing and Graduate School. Admission to the Master of Science ingenerating the solutions to complex problems. Engineering Systems Technology is based on assessment of theeducation integrates problem identification, design, applicant’s score on the Graduate Record Examination, theadvanced scientific concepts, project economics, and undergraduate academic record, and letters ofproject management

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Roman Taraban; William M. Marcy

Using Technology to Develop Ethical Choice in Engineering Students Roman Taraban, Ph.D. & William M. Marcy, Ph.D., P.E. Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX 79409 U.S.A. E-mail: roman.taraban@ttu.edu Abstract students, to exploit current technology in creative This paper describes the interactive technology that we ways, and to raise the visibility of supportinghave added to an undergraduate course titled “Engineering institutions in promoting the development of ethicalEthics

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Walter W. Buchanan

A Brief History of Engineering Technology and a Case for Applied Engineering Walter W. Buchanan Texas A&M University 3367 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843, U.S.A. buchananw@tamu.edu Abstract plus contracts with the government. As a result theThis paper will present a brief history on Engineering engineers could be brought up to speed over several monthsTechnology. It will then make the case why the four-year in the company labs. Even then, however, this

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Jorge Leon; Angie Hill Price; Mathew Kuttolamadom

Developing a Graduate Master’s Degree Program in Engineering Technology: Overview of Program Objectives, Structure & Impact Jorge Leon, Angie Hill Price, Mathew Kuttolamadom Texas A&M University College Station, TX, 77843 E-mail: mathew@tamu.edu Abstract has developed a plan for a MSET degree. During the A study was conducted to outline the state of graduate development phase, other programs around the country andmaster’s degree programs in engineering technology that especially in Texas were examined

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Freddie Davis; Roy Issa; Kenneth Leitch; peter Hughes

Students Exposure to Sustainable Thermal Energy Storage Technologies at West Texas A&M University Freddie Davis, Roy Issa, Kenneth Leitch, and Peter Hughes West Texas A&M University School of Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics Box 60767 Canyon, Texas USA E-mail: fdavis@wtamu.edu, rissa@wtamu.edu, kleitch@wtamu.edu Abstract consumed to heat or cool the buildings. This energyIn the mechanical and civil engineering programs at West demand can be reduced

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Viktor N_ssi; Ana Goulart

educational kits. Such equipment is expensive. Advances ingeneration (5G) cellular networks - including millimeter software defined radio (SDR) [2] allow instructors to usewave transmission, ultra-wideband wireless less expensive equipment to develop new educationalcommunications, and multiple-input-single-output (MISO) laboratories. For example, some of our teachingantennas – helped develop laboratory experiments for laboratories at Texas A&M University use USB donglesundergraduate engineering students. The experiments not (e.g., DVB-T RTL USB [3]) that act as an SDR receiver,only teach students about 5G technologies, but also how to operating between 50 and 2200 MHz.use real-time spectrum

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Myles Sloan; Chung Hyun Goh; Fredericka Brown

BAJA SAE: Building an Engineer Myles Sloan, Chung Hyun Goh, Fredericka Brown* Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Tyler 3900 University Blvd, Tyler, TX 75799 *E-mail: FBrown@uttyler.edu Abstract Since this will be the first year for UT Tyler to attend the BAJA SAE competition, the team needed a large amount of The desire for all employers is to hire an engineer with groundwork to

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

. Students over the duration of this discipline has not yet fully developed inthis project learned how to simulate and design engineering education. Engineering students oftensystems theoretically using computer tools. learn how to develop individual systems withoutFurthermore, students were expected to produce a ever examining how their designs or productsprototype of their model, thereby self-analyzing would work with other systems in the real world.the practicality levels and enhancing learning. Oftentimes, engineers are expected to learn hands- With the technology available to students on skills in the job environment, leading to the vastadvancing, systems integration techniques become

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Roman Taraban; William M. Marcy; Mark S. LaCour; Dashiell Pashley; Klara Keim

involving engineeringdiscriminate conceptual, affective, and motivational dilemmas. A major course requirement is a Social Impactdifferences in the texts that students compose that relate to Analysis (SIA). The organization of the SIA papers isengineering technology and to engineering ethics. We twofold. First, students freely identify and present adiscuss the utility and future directions for this research. contemporary engineering technology (e.g., autonomous tractor trailers, fracking, drones, ethical hacking) in some detail. They then identify and analyze the positive and1. Introduction

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John Attia; Mahamadou tembely; Lisa Hobson; Pamela Obiomon

. 6. Conclusions The hand-held mobile technology, ADB, is being used toFrom Table 3, it can be seen the students perceived that the engage freshman and junior electrical and computeruse of the portable hands-on hardware was relevant to their engineering students. Through multiple exposure to hands-academic area (81% for ELEG 1021, 84% for ELEG 3013 on learning, the students are able achieve mastery with theand 92% for ELEG 3043 and that the ADB motivated them use of the ADB, master laboratory skills, and understandto learn the course content (81% for ELEG 1021, 82% for deeply several topics covered in circuit analysis andELEG 3013 and 83% for ELEG

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Rochelle Williams; Sherri Frizell; Felecia Nave; Audie Thompson

girls of colorsummer camp designed to encourage young girls to pursue interested in pursuing STEM careers, an outreach summerengineering careers. Specifically, the camp exposed program was created at Prairie View A&M Universityparticipants to the fields of computer science and (PVAMU), an Historically Black College & University inengineering using experiential learning to develop Texas, to enlighten girls from underrepresented populationsparticipant interest and skills. At the end of the program, in STEM on how enjoyable, rewarding, and beneficialstudents participated in team competitions and presented careers that utilize science, technology, engineering, andtheir work. The end

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Vijaya Gopu; Ayman Okeil; Roger Seals

technology of structural health monitoring andover incorporating FMM education in an already packed measurements (SHM) and to utilize monitoringcurriculum. technologies and SHM data to evaluate performance and Reinforcing the need to incorporate FMM principles and behavior, analyze problems and design structuralpractices into the CEE curriculum are the accreditation engineering systems. This goal was to be achieved bycriteria of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and

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Dani Fadda P.E.; Oziel Rios

ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, LA, June 26-29, 2016. [6] Edwards, R. and Lobaugh, “Using Excel to Implement the Finite Difference Method for 2-D Heat Transfer in a Mechanical Engineering Technology Course,” 121st ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, IN, June 15-18, 2014. [7] Hossain, N.M, Welser, M. W., and Saad, H

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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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Christine Julien

course to introduce high school students (e.g., women and minorities) in the field [15]. This researchto software engineering in practice using the Internet Of has demonstrated that lack of interest from students whoThings (IoT). IoT devices allow students to get quick, visible otherwise excel in STEM (science, technology, engineering,results without watering down technical aspects of and math) domains is due to a sense that the activities have aprogramming and networking. The

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Jitendra Tate; Craig Hanks; Harold Stern; Walt Trybula

engineer; an electricalintegrate ethics education throughout the curriculum engineer; a philosopher with expertise in ethics inof the still-new Ingram School of Engineering. science, technology, engineering, and business; and aDuring work on an NSF funded grant, we were able representative from industry who is active in ethicsto infuse ethics related modules in 13 different education. We have each been involved incourses, across three colleges and at all levels of curriculum development and program building,undergraduate study. Our goal in participating in the professional outreach, and research on ethicsGSW ASEE meeting is to share ideas about education.addressing

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Joseph A. Donndelinger

capitalists, andcommunication and a team-based class project. The philanthropists based on a proposal for local production of Lithium Ion batteries for residential use in Haiti10. The lastsupplemental content proved helpful for transitioning was another problem-based assignment mirroring content ofstudents from traditional engineering coursework to the the team-based class project on residential implementationsuccessive courses in the Technology Entrepreneurship of renewable energy

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Hector A. Ochoa; Mukul V. Shirvaikar

design.3 There has been a trend due to rapid advances in technology to change the approach to one Digital Systems is one of the basic foundational courses in based on programming in hardware description languages.4,5,6Electrical and Computer Engineering. One of the challenges in It can also lead to subsequent courses in microprocessors anddesigning and modifying the curriculum for the course is the embedded systems that are taught using the same approach. 7,8fast pace of technology change

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Matthew Alexander

Course Instruction products from natural gas feedstock using Fischer-Tropsch The “recognition of the need for, and an ability to synthesis; and (d) development in Aspen of a multi-columnengage in life-long learning” is ABET (Accreditation distillation system to accomplish product separationsBoard for Engineering and Technology) student outcome associated with a ternary azeotrope system associated with“i”. In chemical engineering at TAMUK, this student ethyl acetate production. In all of these cases, the life-longoutcome is assessed in the Design II class, but not the learning experience was promoted by the instructor usingDesign III class. Life

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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

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David Ewing

. Subsequent mechanical and aerospace Horne, “Cases on Higher Education Spaces: Innovation, engineering class pass rates before and after ENGR Collaboration, and Technology”, IGI Global, pg. 165- 1300 was implemented 185 (2013). [3] R. Beichner, “The SCALE-UP Project: A Student- As can be seen, student pass rates have significantly Centered Active Learning Environment forincreased in these three difficult courses after ENGR Undergraduate Programs,” Invited paper for the1300’s implementation. In fact, Statics and Solid National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved

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Kenneth Van Treuren

given an assignment on the first day to write a considering the request yet at the same time not be sopersuasive/position paper, supported by research, either for specific as to limit possible solutions. A new engine wasor against replacing the engines on the B-52H. Three teams desired which meant that new technologies needed to besupported the United States Air Force (USAF) re-engine addressed. This exercise helped prepare the student teamsproject and two surprisingly were against. All defended understand the origin of the RFP and its purpose. Teamstheir positions with documentation. The position paper examined the current B-52H aircraft mission capabilitiesgave the students a chance to learn about the aircraft

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

level. As such, this1. Introduction program is led by 11 engineering faculty members from the Research regarding STEM programs has shown that various engineering disciplines, each of whom delivered aparticipating in these programs leads to increased pre-approved lesson relating to their current research. Thisknowledge and retention of technological concepts [1]. structure gave students the opportunity to experience Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference The University of Texas at Austin April 4-6, 2018design-thinking as it relates to

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Steve E. Watkins; Nancy M. Ostin

Best Practices of Honor Societies Steve E. Watkins1 and Nancy M. Ostin2 1 Missouri University of Science and Technology Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Rolla, Missouri 65409 USA 2 IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854 USA E-mail: steve.e.watkins@ieee.org and n.ostin@ieee.org Abstract service learning initiatives, and general engagement for Academic honor societies are widely

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Matt Leonard; Joseph Morgan; Jeremy P. Coffelt

makes DSTR highly desirable for applied research, especially in engineering. DSTR has been designed using aeducation and Science, Technology, Engineering and system of systems approach thus making it applicable to aMathematics (STEM) outreach activities. wide range of engineering disciplines including electronics, mechanics, embedded software, control and communications. Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference The University of Texas at Austin

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

NSU- LSMSA Makers Club: Advanced STEM Educational Modules and Enhanced Experiential Learning Jafar F. Al-Sharab, Curtis Desselles, Robert Dalling, Mauricio Escobar, Ariell Shield, Hoa Nguyen, McKenzie Cutrer, and Will Heitman Department of Engineering Technology, Northwestern State University, The Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts (LSMSA) Natchitoches, LA 71459 Abstract Experiential Learning is the application of knowledge thatThis paper describes advanced educational activates of focuses on the needs and wants of a

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Hyun Seop Lee; Y. D. Kim; Edwin Thomas

Integrated Educational Project of Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Analyses Hyun Seop Lee1,*, Y. D. Kim2, and Edwin Thomas3 1,3 Engineering Technology, Grambling State University 403 Main Street, Grambling, Louisiana, 71245, USA * E-mail: leehy@gram.edu 2 Engineering and Technology, Texas A&M University – Commerce P.O. Box 3011, Commerce, TX, 75429, USA Abstract ability to understand

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Timothy Urban; Margaret Baguio

students to representation, and low persistence of U.S. students in Science,apply to participate. In 2015 we chose to focus the program Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines.on sophomores and juniors (rising juniors and seniors) in This project addresses the national need to increase the number oforder to maximize impact on STEM college major choices; high school students, particularly under-represented minorities and Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference The University of Texas at Austin April 4-6, 2018those from underserved areas that will pursue STEM college

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S. Nasrazadani; S. Sekar; N. Padamati; X. Wang; F. Gamez-Rivas

Training Graduate Students in Utilization of Analytical Instruments in a Failure Analysis Course S. Nasrazadani, S. Sekar, N. Padamati, X. Wang, F. Gamez-Rivas Department of Engineering Technology University of North Texas Denton, Texas 76207, E-mail: seifollah.nasrazadani@unt.edu Abstract Technology at University of North Texas offers a sequence Department of Engineering Technology at University of of graduate course one on Failure Analysis in the FallNorth Texas offers a