Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katey Shirey, eduKatey LLC; Lisa Bosman, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI)

. The focus on bio-inspired design is intentional as it hasimmediate connections to nature- and human-centered design, applicable to most (if not all)engineering disciplines.Third, the integration of STEAM with a particular emphasis on the arts encouragestransdisciplinary problem-solving. In addition, the use of STEAM promotes connections across avariety of technical and humanities-focused disciplines, bringing together a diversity ofperspectives, frameworks, and paradigms. As a result, applying STEAM together with bio-inspired design and the entrepreneurial mindset has the capacity to broaden participation amongpersons traditionally underrepresented in STEM, including women and minoritized populations[4].2. Background2.1 Entrepreneurial

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS) Technical Session 4: Bring Your Own Experiments +

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacob Bishop, Southern Utah University

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

importance of relying on real-world behavior to guide understandingand engineering design.One of the guiding principles for the design of lab activities for this project was that lab activitiesare most effective if they align closely with concepts and principles taught in class. In addition,lab activities should allow students to visualize, experience, and clarify confusing concepts. Tothis end, equipment should be as simple as possible so that students don’t get lost in aspects ofthe experiment that are not at the core of the phenomena studied. Unnecessary programs, gad-gets, tools, or assembly should be avoided when possible. Further, sufficient equipment needs tobe provided so that students can all conduct experiments first-hand, rather than

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John K. Wagner, University of New Mexico; Lizandra C. Godwin, University of New Mexico; Magda Hinojosa, Arizona State University; Nadia Singh, University of Oregon; Elizabeth A. Wentz, Arizona State University; Benjamin Jose Aleman, University of Oregon; Mala Htun, University of New Mexico

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

federal funding, such as a NSF Career Award or NIH R01. • The candidate’s number of publications. • Assessment of colleagues in the candidate’s academic unit. • Whether the candidate is conducting research that is novel, bold and outside the disciplinary box. • The placement of publications in top journals of the field with high impact factors. • Whether the candidate uses research methods endorsed by the mainstream of the discipline and regularly published in high impact journals. • The candidate’s h-index. • Whether the candidate is conducting research on topics that are central to the disciplinary mainstream. • Whether the candidate’s research has clear practical applications and real-world

Conference Session

Ethics Integration in Engineering Design

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Irini Spyridakis, University of Washington

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Engineering Ethics

white residentsto live near an industrial facility that contributes to air pollution, safety issues, and healthconcerns [10]. Annually, close to 4.8 million metric tons of plastic enter the worlds’ oceans [11],destroying food supplies that 1 billion people rely on and creating more toxic waste [12]. Givenjust these few facts about packaging waste in landfills and plastics in the oceans, the economicand social injustices are alarming.The goal of this paper is to describe a course module and graded report assignment onsustainable and ethical design practices in engineering, and discuss assessment of the module andreport. In the sustainable and ethical design module and report, students investigate many topicsrelated to sustainable engineering and

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

H. Bryan Riley, Clemson University

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Systems Engineering

imperatives in a timely and cost-effective manner. This paper reports theexperiences of students making engineering, business, manufacturing, and supplier relateddecisions to deliver the medical ventilators for patient use. The assessment consists of sequentialactivities that are commonly utilized in innovation, production, and launch processes for a newconsumer product. The course instructor formulates student teams such that individual skills,interests, and competencies are balanced. The educational objectives from prerequisite and co-requisite manufacturing courses are utilized.Keywords: Global Manufacturing, Engineering Applications, Medical Ventilators, Student-Centered Learning Projects1.0 IntroductionThe healthcare industry experienced a

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sanjay Tewari, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Peng Zhang, Missouri State University; Yuan Zhuang, Missouri State University

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Diversity

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International

Engineering) and Master of Technology (Chemical Engineering) in India. He later joined Texas A&M University and earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Civil (Environmental) Engineering. His research efforts are focused on drinking water quality and issues related to the treatment of wastewater using physical, chemical, biological, and electrochemical/kinetic processes. His recent research efforts have been in the area of application of geographic information systems to environmental management and sustainability, causes/effects of salinity in soils, and corrosion of metal pipes. Dr. Tewari also has a keen interest in STEM education, improving diversity in STEM areas, the inclusion of hands-on and digital tools in the

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II - Courses II

Collection

2017 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Kevin Kochersberger, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Ashley R Taylor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Christopher Kappes, Virginia Tech

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Main Forum (Podium Presentation)

science and engineering practice toenable a successful school-to-work transition1. Ideally, capstone projects should be based on real-world problems to provide students with industry-level skills that have been defined by ABET inthe a.) through k.) criteria (team work, design with realistic constraints, etc.)2. Up until the 2012– 2013 academic year, Virginia Tech (VT) met these outcomes through a combination of facultyand industry-sponsored design projects that served the needs of a class of over 300, with 41 uniqueprojects. However, after that year, an increase in the senior class size to 344 students resulted in aneed to look elsewhere for project options and so an international humanitarian (IH) project optionwas created.Since inception of the

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Lord, University of San Diego

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Electrical and Computer

educators often object to the time required to evaluate or grade writingassignments.9 Thus, the practical aspect of integrating writing into this experience meansensuring that it is not overly burdensome to the engineering faculty member. In all of theexamples in this paper, no special expertise in writing is required besides the typical familiaritywith technical writing that most engineering instructors have. Thus these experiences may bemore readily transferable to other institutions than other innovative but potentially expensiveWAC approaches. When applicable, the quality of the writing typically improves if multipledrafts with revisions are included.2, 17 However, in the examples presented here, the decisionwas made not to include multiple

Conference Session

High-School Engineering Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Muhammad Kehnemouyi, Montgomery College; Uchechukwu Abanulo, Montgomery College

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

future career as engineersThe rest of this paper is organized as follows. First, an overview of the general ES 100program is given. Then a detailed description of the EFP is presented. Results from anevaluation of the project based on student responses and decisions are then presented,followed by a concluding discussion.Montgomery College’s General Curriculum for Engineering Science 100The ES 100 course is a two-hour lecture, two-hour lab per week course in which studentsare given an overview of the application of the basic tools and techniques of engineeringdesign and graphic communications, the fundamentals of solid modeling, engineeringreports, cost analysis, and the use of software tools. Students are also required to work inteams to design

Conference Session

Project-based and Experiential Learning in Civil Engineering

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Susan M. Reynolds, Colorado School of Mines

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

similar ideas as presented here. One successful aspect of the experiment is that the 3Dmodel provides a more authentic emulation of real-world engineering practice. Students mayperuse the views and orbit the model in 3D to understand the nature of the problem. This type ofengagement, inquiry, and discovery is typically not possible in traditional paper exams.Additionally, by modeling the context in 3D, the exam designer is forced to fully develop theproblem in a way that is not typically done for an on-paper exam. For example, consider theunusual cross-section. The unconventional shape was strategically chosen to limit students’ability to use online moment of inertia solvers during the take-home exam. However, the unusualshape of the cross

Conference Session

Investigating Instructional Strategies

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harold R. Underwood, Messiah College

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

participate voluntarily via the Collaboratory for Strategic Parnternships and Applied Research. His on-going projects include improving flight tracking and messaging systems for small planes in remote locations, and developing assistive communication technology for those with cognitive and behavioral challenges, such as high- functioning autism, or PTSD. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Formalizing Experiential Learning Requirements In An Existing Interdisciplinary Engineering Project CurriculumIn education, experiential learning has become a best practice, high-impact strategy, becauseengaging with real life problems heightens students’ interest, teaches them career

Conference Session

Student Division Early Introduction to Engineering Technical Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Hoyin Jahnes, RPI Engineering Ambassadors; David Joseph Glowny, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Timothy Andrew Spafford, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Justin Lee Clough, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Elizabeth S. Herkenham, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Wencen Wu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Anak Agung Julius, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Student

numerical conversions, are essential to pathfinding robotics. This alsoincluded examples of applications in the modern world. In addition, a corresponding activity wasconstructed that focused on mathematics and programming of LEGO NXT robots [8]; theserobots were constructed before the school visits. One of these robots is shown in Figure 1. Figure 1: LEGO NXT robot. Height from wheel to top was 6 inches.This activity guided students in understanding how the rotations of motors and wheels translateinto moving a mobile robot. At the start of the activity, groups of 5 to 7 students were given apre-measured path (shown in Figure 2) for the robot to follow on a board; the board itself wasplaced on a table or the floor. The robot must

Conference Session

Working at the Intersection of Industry and Academia

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Weagle, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; David B. Ortendahl, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Michael Ahern P.E., Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

opportunities to attract talent and address workforce developmentneeds. As the industry continues to grow and evolve, so too does WPI’s approach to supportingthe industry partnership for continued success. WPI’s model for corporate engagement hasevolved as the needs of internal and external stakeholders have developed over the years. Whathas remained constant is the university’s commitment to tackling industry challenges alongsideour corporate partners. These increasingly complex challenges provide unique opportunities forWPI students and faculty, self-identified problem solvers who are always seeking out practical,real-world opportunities to exercise the theories developed through formal education.References[1] V. A. Rocha, “Powering America with

Conference Session

Insights for Teaching ECE Courses - Session I

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Safeer M. Khan P.E., Arkansas Tech University; Mohamed Ibrahim, Arkansas Tech University; Nansong Wu, Arkansas Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

, wireless communication, and IoT applications. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Measuring Self-Efficacy in Engineering Courses – Impact of Learning Style PreferencesAbstractSelf-efficacy is an important outcome of engineering education as it relates to students' feelings,thoughts, motivations and behaviors. The key element of self-efficacy construct is a self-belief inone's abilities and has been described in detail in terms of Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory.Measuring self-efficacy of students in engineering courses is an important element of evaluatingthe overall effectiveness of engineering education. Traditional methods of judging student learningoutcomes

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Cynthia Lester, Georgia State University; Sahithya Reddivari, Georgia State University; Forough Ansari, Georgia State University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

fostering female students’ engagement in advanced technologies and real-world industry levelprojects while also helping them to develop an academic mindset. The Alpharetta Campus wasintentionally chosen because more than 700 technology companies are based within closeproximity to the campus.The club had several gatherings ranging from on-campus meetings with students andprofessionals to site visits at local corporations and consulting firms. With these activities andinvolvements, club members gained the opportunity to interact with industry professionals fornetworking purposes and enhanced their understanding of the existing and upcomingtechnologies. Another significant advantage of this approach has been for female students to talkand speak in

Conference Session

Cognitive Engagement

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Petr Johanes, Stanford University

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Educational Research and Methods

properties of materials and the processes used tocreate and control those properties [1]. The discipline has its roots in metallurgy, but today itincludes the study of nanomaterials in a wide variety of applications, including energy technology,biotechnology, and many others. In short, materials science does not only deal with metalsanymore.As such, materials science and engineering encounters and investigates phenomena that can becomplicated and complex. Here, complicated refers to phenomena that require a non-trivial seriesof causal links to explain. Complex, however, refers to phenomena that require a systemsframework to explain. Specifically, complex systems share the following aspects: (1) they involvemultiple related processes; (2) their

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheree Buikema, Purdue University; Robert J. Herrick, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Wanju Huang, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Execu- tive Board (charter member); the Ronald Schmitz Award for Outstanding Service to FIE; the ASEE IL-IN Outstanding Campus Representative; the ASEE Hewlett Packard Award for Excellence in Laboratory In- struction; the ASEE IL-IN Outstanding Teaching Award; Marquis’ Who’s Who in the World, in America, in Engineering and Science, and in Education.Dr. Wanju Huang, Purdue University Dr. Wanju Huang is an instructional designer on the Course Design and Development team within ITaP’s Teaching and Learning Technologies group at Purdue University. Prior to joining Purdue University in Fall 2016, Wanju was a lecturer and an instructional designer at Eastern Kentucky University. She is a certified Quality Matters Peer

Conference Session

Before and After: Matriculants and Alumni

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; Michelle Marie Grau, Stanford University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Stanford University; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, SKG Analysis; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Michelle Warner, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

alumni are a common approach taken by departments to collect evidencedemonstrating how educational objectives are being met for the purpose of continuousimprovement of the program (ABET Criterion 4). While survey administration tools havebecome widely available and easy to navigate, researchers must still address the challenges ofdesigning not only a concise survey instrument but also an effective deployment plan that resultsin a high response rate among targeted respondents.To explore these issues in a real world context, this paper draws upon first hand experiencesrelated to the planning of the Pathways of Engineering Alumni Research Survey (PEARS) whichwas piloted with geographically distributed engineering alumni from four institutions in

Conference Session

ABET Accreditation, Assessment, and Program Improvement in ECE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Wilczynski, University of Southern California; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2012-3216: A PRACTICAL AND COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH OFASSESSING ABET OUTCOME ACHIEVEMENT IN COMPUTER SCI-ENCE AND COMPUTER ENGINEERINGDr. David Wilczynski, University of Southern California David Wilczynski has a long history at USC. He was the first Ph.D. graduate from theUSC Information Science Institute in 1975, where some of the initial work on Arpanet was done. His research specialty at the time was in knowledge representation. In 1984, he left USC for almost 20 years to be an entrepreneur. Most of his work was in manufacturing, both in Detroit and Japan. During that time, he worked on programming real-time systems using an agent methodology, which he now teaches in his CSCI 201 class. He returned to USC in

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheila A. O'Connor; Don Malzahn

Session 2230 Development of a Web-Based System for Coaching Engineering Student Design Teams Sheila O’Connor, Don Malzahn Wichita State UniversityAbstract The practice of engineering occurs in teams. Therefore, engineering educatorsmust continue to develop and evaluate methods to help engineering students learn how towork in teams. One potential way of offering team process knowledge and feedback isthrough the use of the World Wide Web (WWW). This paper presents a web-based modelthat trains and coaches engineering students in developing team process knowledge

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zechun Cao, Texas A&M University, San Antonio; German Zavala Villafuerte; Ali Jalooli; Renu Balyan; Sanaz Rahimi Moosavi; Francisco Iacobelli, Northeastern Illinois University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

that result in long-lasting real-world impact. More recently, he has been passionate about designing algorithms and tools to keep users’ private confidential data secure in an AI-driven world. Dr. Cao’s work has been published in international conferences and journals. He is a member of ACM and IEEE and has served as a TPC member and reviewer for various journals and international conferences.German Zavala VillafuerteAli JalooliRenu BalyanSanaz Rahimi MoosaviFrancisco Iacobelli, Northeastern Illinois University Dr. Iacobelli is a Computer Scientist with a research focus at the intersection between human-computer interaction, natural language processing, education and artificial intelligence. He has been applying this

Conference Session

Technical Sessions 5

Collection

2024 Fall ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Bryan James Higgs, University of the District of Columbia; Ujwalkumar Dashrath Patil, Department of Civil Engineering at the University of the District of Columbia.

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Professional Papers

that while the future climate of the planet is uncertain, itwill be a result of the decisions that society makes. While the countries of the world collectivelydecide the future climate of the planet, it is up to city planners and engineers to protect thewelfare and security of communities despite whatever may occur as a result of climate change.This interdependency of decision making is where game theory is most applicable and presentsthe most advantages.Assessment of the newly designed curriculumThe assessment of the efficacy of the proposed graduate courses and undergraduate coursemodules is focused on the development of the knowledge, skills, and abilities of the students.The chosen mechanism for the assessment were two surveys, one for

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kendra Seniow, Oregon State University; Eric Nefcy, Oregon State University; Christine Kelly, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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Educational Research and Methods

learning outcomes. One way to overcome theselimitations is to use alternative modes of delivery, such as virtual or remote laboratories. In avirtual laboratory, students do not interact with real equipment to obtain data, but rather withcomputer simulations of laboratory or industrial process equipment that produce results that canbe obscured by pre-programmed statistical variation. In the most common approach, the virtuallaboratory is used as an alternative mode and simulates a similar set of activities as in thecorresponding physical laboratory. In a few cases, virtual laboratories have been used to createlearning activities with no analog to the university instructional laboratory. The instructional andsoftware design of the virtual

Conference Session

Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rainer Jonas; Peter Winter; Peter Eichelmann; Paul King; Jeannie Scriven; Hunter Lauten; Hans-Jorg Jacobsen; Claudia Berger; Bernhard Huchzermeyer; Angelika Appenzeller; Jerry Collins; Todd Giorgio; Jean Alley

positions in Germany are beingsought for US students. European engineering students previously hosted by author PK havebeen well-trained in research and industrial applications and are desirable interns for both USengineering design courses and US companies.GOALS OF THE PARTNERSHIPWe have established a partnership between the VaNTH ERC in Bioengineering EducationalTechnology and a consortium of German universities, research institutes, and companies in thecities of Hannover and Braunschweig in the German state of Niedersachsen. ParticipatingGerman institutions include the Technical University of Braunschweig, the University ofHannover, the National Research Centre for Biotechnology (GBF) in Braunschweig, and the CarlDuisberg Society (CDG) in

Conference Session

Research Related to Learning and Teaching Engineering in Elementary Classrooms

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Rivale, University of Colorado, Boulder; Janet Yowell, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jayne Aiken, University of Colorado, Boulder; Sweta Adhikary, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado, Boulder

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

These large expenditures, however, have yetto produce measurable gains in public understanding of engineering. In response to this, theNational Academy of Engineering conducted a comprehensive study, Changing theConversation, to: (1) identify a small number of messages likely to improve the publicunderstanding of engineering, (2) test the effectiveness of these messages in a variety of targetaudiences, and (3) disseminate the results of the message testing to the engineering community.7As part of the study, the Committee on the Public Understanding of Engineering Messagesdeveloped a new positioning statement for engineering: No profession unleashes the spirit of innovation like engineering. From research to real-world applications

Conference Session

Global Engineering Models: Developments and Implementations

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria Jose Yanez, Universidad de Santiago de Chile; Ernesto Gramsch, Universidad de Santiago de Chile; Roberto Santander, Universidad de Santiago de Chile; Cecilia Richards, Washington State University; Robert Richards, Washington State University

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International

microfabrication skills. To this end, a Chilean student traveled to our USuniversity, where she trained for one month in our cleanroom. There, the student learnedbasic cleanroom skills as well as receiving more specific instruction in metallizationtechniques, photolithography, and wet chemical etching. The student’s trainingculminated in the fabrication of a set of microfabricated heat flux sensor die. Heat fluxsensors were chosen as the first target application for Chilean students because of theimportance of the copper industry to that country.The copper industry is a large part of the Chilean economy; copper production accountsfor one third of all government revenue [8]. For this reason, improving the efficiency andproductivity of the copper industry

Conference Session

Design in BME Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Goldberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Robert Dennis, University of North Carolina; Charles Finley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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Biomedical

thisproject. The TAs and instructors work closely with the students in lab to help them becomesuccessful in this project.In fall 2009, we modified the challenge to synchronize with material taught in with LinearControl Systems, a required course in our program that students were taking at the same time.The objectives were to bring further cohesion to the curriculum, and to propose a challenge thatincreases student motivation and provides a real-world perspective. The linear controls courseemployed a unifying theme of developing engineering solutions to the basic design challengesrequired for a neuroprosthetic arm and hand. Numerous examples of such systems exist from theclinical and engineering research community. This coincided with the senior

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED): Assessment, Curriculum & Instructional Design

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chelsea Armbrister, Florida A&M University - Florida State University; Lara Perez-Felkner, Florida A&M University - Florida State University

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Diversity

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED)

program has diversified in terms of faculty, staff, funding sources, partner universitiesetc. to facilitate STEM retention and matriculation. Figure 1 shows the diversity in funding partnership whichhas allowed for the inclusion of various facilities, companies, faculty, staff. projects and student groups. Duringthe summer, students are partnered with laboratory principal investigators (PI’s), graduate mentors and researchassistants to assess, explore and contribute to real world engineering problems. Notably, students’ maininstitution of enrollment while participating in this program includes institutions across the U.S., withconsistent consideration to Minority Serving Institutions (especially Historically Black Colleges andUniversities) and

Conference Session

Experiential Learning : Global Models and Perspectives

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Venkataraman PB, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani; G. Sundar

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED)

, social institution. 1978 B.Engg, Five years. On-campus residentials and intensive LO’R-Exeter Career experiential learning on real-world Model, UK: progression projects. Four, two-week University through Charted University of residentials, remaining at website Engineer Exeter, 2017 workplace. Exact make-up of the certification course developed in partnership

Conference Session

GSD 6: The Graduate School Experience

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan Jackson, University of New Mexico

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

asphotolithography, doping, oxidation, soft lithography, etching, and then a series of labs whichcombines the above topics so the students can fabricate a MEMS device (electrothermal actuator,electrostatic actuator, or pressure sensor) [6, 18-22]. The course is highly multidisciplinary, whichis different than most traditional engineering courses that focus on a single subject, and it is taughtusing problem-based learning (PBL) where students learn the theory through real-world examplesand case-studies, so they learn why the material is important and how it can be applied. Then inthe lab students get hands-on experience on how to apply the principles and see the effects. Thecourse often involves topics or subjects that are new to the students, for example