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Maryamsadat Shokrekhodaei; Annatoma Arif; Robert Christopher Roberts

1Optimizing Laboratory Curriculum to Enhance Students’ Learning Efficiency in Electrical Engineering Department Maryamsadat Shokrekhodaei, Annatoma Arif, and Robert C. Roberts Electrical and Computer Engineering Department The University of Texas at El Paso AbstractIntroduction to Electrical Engineering (I2EE) is one of the core courses offered to freshmen in theElectrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Thepurpose of this course is introducing students to theoretical and practical concepts those form the basisfor

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Andrea Turcatti; Terrell Bennett

feel better preparedto work on real-world problems and has improved their understanding of the design process. Inaddition, the survey data shows that working on real projects helped the students learn design.IntroductionThe Jonsson School has implemented UTDesign EPICS based on the successful EPICS modelfrom Purdue University described by Coyle et al1. EPICS is a new project-based design course atThe University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) that utilizes a service-learning model, engages studentsin hands-on real-world projects early in their academic careers, and teaches them human-centereddesign thinking concepts. Through UTDesign EPICS, non-profit organizations partner withmultidisciplinary teams of UTD undergraduate students to solve technology

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Kenneth Leitch; Erick Benjamin Butler

Collaboration between a Civil Engineering and an Environmental Engineering Program: Better Together Kenneth R. Leitch and Erick B. Butler College of Engineering West Texas A&M University AbstractThe civil engineering and environmental engineering programs at West Texas A&M University(WTAMU) (a mid-sized regional institution in the Texas A&M University System and located inthe Amarillo, TX region) are collaborating on curriculum and senior design capstone projects inorder to strengthen one another and boost student enrollments in shared courses and in themajors

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Diana de la Rosa-Pohl; Catherine Horn

achievement toqualify for an S-STEM scholarship, most of the participants already have sizeable financial aidpackages available to them for school. The support that the S-STEM scholarship provides typicallypays all or most of the tuition balance and allows the student to work fewer hours (or none at all)giving them more time to participate in program activities.As far as program expectations, participants are required to take a one-hour course each semester inthe first two years of college. The first year is a hands-on project-based robotics curriculum, whilethe second year is an undergraduate research experience with a faculty mentor. The mandatoryweekly class meetings are a significant part of the engagement intervention as the effectiveness

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Kenneth Van Treuren

industry. On a team is where oralcommunication is so important. Team projects are something we all have in our curriculums. AtBaylor, a survey showed most students approach team projects by dividing the tasks and then Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Copyright © 2020, American Society for Engineering Education 8putting the project together just in time, involving little interaction. In the real world you must workwith other people, usually in person, to get something done. You never know who might be on theteam but, no matter who is on the team, at some