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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Alison Whittemore; Okan Caglayan

2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference Senior Engineering Capstone Project: Modular Advanced River Barge System (M.A.R.S) Alison Whittemore, PhD and Okan Caglayan, PhD University of the Incarnate Word Yura Galvez Padyn Giebler Andrew Grossman Max MartinezAbstractTo celebrate the 300th anniversary of the founding of the city of San Antonio, the San AntonioRiver Authority (SARA) and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) sponsored an opencompetition for a redesigned river barge. The

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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Roy Issa; Kenneth R. Leitch; Byungik Chang P.E.

Implementing Sustainability with a Solar Distillation Project Roy Issa1, Kenneth Leitch1 and Byungik Chang2 1 West Texas A&M University/ 2University of New HavenAbstractStudents in the mechanical and civil engineering programs at West Texas A&M University areexposed to sustainability in a wide variety of required courses in thefreshman through seniorlevel coursework. The projects in these courses are carefully selected to provide an in-depthunderstanding of sustainability through analytical and experimental studies. In thermal-fluiddesign, students were asked to build an environmentally friendly and energy efficient systemforthe distillation of

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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Luis Martinez Medellin; Edward Pines; Patricia Sullivan; Arthur Cox; Motoko Furuhashi

workshop was the first oriented workshopconducted in the satellite location. This was done to introduce students to potential collaborationswith art students. Additionally, metal working and a clay forming workshops were held asadditional multidisciplinary outreach efforts.Since the beginning of the cross-departmental alliance, the AIS has been successful in advancinghigh-resolution prototyping abilities among two high-profile student organization projects andtwo engineering capstone projects. Prior to the alliance, the such projects were dependent on off-campus resources to complete their projects. Specifically, the Design, Build, Fly, and SteelBridge student organization projects were able to benefit from access to the newly available

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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Ilse Nava-Medina; Angie Hill Price; Mathew Kuttolamadom

. Additionally, there is a plan to evaluatehow such an experience could help prepare them for their capstone projects, as well as to trackwhether they continued on to enroll into a graduate program. Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference Organized by The University of Texas at Dallas Copyright © 2017, American Society for Engineering Education 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference References1. Zhan, W., Lam, A., “Benefits of Research Experience for Undergraduate Engineering Technology Students”, Proceedings of the 2011 American Society for Engineering Education

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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Ronald Barr

statement, and simplified theconcept of a capstone design experience. Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference Organized by The University of Texas at Dallas Copyright © 2017, American Society for Engineering Education 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference Table 5: Side-by-Side Comparison of Proposed Changes to Criteria 5 (source: ABET1).ABET Process to Review and Approve the Proposed Changes to Criteria 3 and 5.ABET is very responsive to all constituents, and as such has developed a large playing field forall interested parties to comment on any proposed changes to their accreditation standards. Forexample, this has

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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Tulio Sulbaran

decisionsimpact each individual project that collectively represents the construction industry which is oneof the largest economic sectors of most localities, states and countries around the globe.Although research has been done in decision making and some psychometric instruments exist inthis area, there was no tool that allowed to measure the decision making process of the AECpracticing professional and students. Thus, the focus of this research paper is to introduce theConstruction Decision Making Inventory (CDMI) that was recently developed by Dr. TulioSulbaran to fill this important gap in the AEC industry. The content of this paper is veryimportant as it helps better understand practicing professionals, educators and student. Thisunderstanding of

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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Wei Zhan

overall score may not be the best indicator, we decided to focus on thisarea for improvement during this cycle.Established in Cycle: 2015-2016 Implementation Status: Planned Priority: HighRelationships (Measure | Outcome/Objective):Measure: Course Objectives Assessment | Outcome/Objective: Effective Written and OralCommunicationsMeasure: IAC Capstone Evaluation | Outcome/Objective: Effective Written and OralCommunicationsMeasure: Senior Exit Survey | Outcome/Objective: Effective Written and Oral Communications Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference Organized by The University of Texas at Dallas Copyright © 2017, American Society for