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2023 ASEE GSW

Authors

A. Anil Kumar

yet unsolved problems, have been touted as themost important elements of twenty-first century skills.1-6 In particular, they have been a staplerequirement for Student Outcomes from Criterion 3 of ABET.7 However, based on comments andconcerns from the industry, there is a marked gap in skills between graduation and workforcerequirements. For instance, a student may be good in technology but does not know how to use itin a given context. Or, a student is well-versed in computing but does not know how to transferthat skill to a new application. The general belief is that learning can be assessed at different levelsof competence or ability. While there are multiple approaches to such assessment, notably –Bloom’s Taxonomy8, the 5E Model9, the

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

R. Radharamanan

of faculty and students. The conference also had sessions on “Integration ofEngineering and General Education”, “Assessment of KEEN Student Outcomes”, “StudentDesign Project/Poster Presentations and Product Demonstrations”, “Student TestimonialPresentations Highlighting Impact of KEEN Initiatives on Engineering Education and StudentLearning” and “Future Direction for the KEEN Regional Conferences”. More than a hundredfaculty, students, administrators, and industry personnel participated in the regional conference.In addition, a low cost 3-D scanning/printing facility (Figure 1) has been added to the MCIE toenhance innovation and creativity aspects among engineering students as well as to instillentrepreneurial mindset that includes making

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Melody Baglione

of the II. BACKGROUNDconcepts being taught [1]. Several methods of inductive This project implements and evaluates several newlearning, in which students are actively engaged with practical inductive facilities-based and hands-on teaching methods in aapplications or experimental procedures, have been generally junior-level mechanical engineering Feedback Controlshown to provide engineering undergraduates with a broader Systems (ME151) course. ME151 is a continuation of theunderstanding of course material [2]. The case study approach Systems Engineering course

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2013 GSW

Authors

Eric Haney; Lex Gonzalez; Amen Omoragbon; Thomas McCall; Xiao Peng; Vincent Ricketts; Jon Crosley; Bernd Chudoba

Friday Afternoon Session 2 – Student Leveraging History in the Context of Project Engineer Education: Project Mercury Eric Haney, Lex Gonzalez, Amen Omoragbon, Thomas McCall, Xiao Peng, Vincent Ricketts, Jon Crosley, and Bernd Chudoba Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington AbstractThe first manned U.S. space program, Project Mercury, is leveraged as a data-rich aerospacesystems engineering design case study. The extensive amount of contract design reports,technical memorandums, and project overviews

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2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Craig Stringer

gender neutral toys allowed students the ability to setup and executeexperiments for mechanistic evaluation with emphasis placed on generating, testing andimplementing technical solutions to the toy design. Topics such as manufacturing, safety, costanalysis, materials selection, and marketing were directed from lecture portion of the class andapplied to the toy analysis. From the observations and mechanistic evaluation of the toys,students were capable to design and fabricate a working prototype to a technical challenge. Thispaper describes a case study project demonstrating the process of relating toy evaluation toengineering fundamentals and reports feedback from faculty and students. Observations are alsooffered on the manner in which

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2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Charles Baukal

effectively in teams is a skill that is not as straightforward as solving anengineering problem. If someone is brilliant but cannot communicate their ideas to theirteammates, then they are not likely to be very effective as an engineer. People with expertise indifferent disciplines may not speak the same technical language. Teammates may be from verydifferent generations, ethnic backgrounds and cultures. Gender and personality types can alsoimpact how teams function. These factors and others complicate communication.  2 This section has been adapted from [29]. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 2024 ASEE Midwest Section

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Lance Hoffman; Rachelle Heller; Costis Toregas

Applying to SFS N (%) N (%)Flyers on campus (in halls or provided as part of aninformational session) 3 (60%) 0Financial assistance 3 (60%) 9 (56%)Professor recommendation (from non-GW college/university) 2 (40%) 0Program aligned with employment interests (Federal job) 2 (40%) 8 (50%)Quality of the program/Great opportunity 1 (20%) 1 (6%) 10Interest in cyber-security 1 (20%) (63%)Secondary Motivation for

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Radian Belu

their ownproject with the instructor agreement of the topics. The goal of the design project is to exploreand enhance students understanding of the fundamental power conversion principles, power 65circuit simulation capability and hands-on demonstration of circuit prototyping. The courseproject is worth 25% of the course grade. Students are required to present their project output ina poster session arranged for a technical audience. They are also required to summarize theresults of the design in a short report by the end of the course.4. Lessons Learned and Student AssessmentThe student reaction to the incorporation of EMC/EMI topics into our curriculum has been wellreceived so far. In the first

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2008 GSW

Authors

Matthias W. Pleil

their work - Submit designs to the DRC – Design Rule Checker – for verification - Combine Pin Joint, Hubs, Gears, Sliders and Hinges into small functioning subsystemsOnce they have gained the skills needed to produce small, discrete parts which pass thedesign rules of the process, the students are required to begin designing for thecompetition. Several brainstorming sessions are facilitated to come up with ideas which Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of New Mexico – Albuquerque Copyright © 2008. American Society for Engineering Educationmeet the competition goals. Currently, there are two design categories – 1) Novel and 2

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2022 CIEC

Authors

Joseph Untener; Philip Appiah-Kubi

. BackgroundABET [1] requires engineering technology baccalaureate degree programs to “provide acapstone or integrating experience that develops student competencies in applying both technicaland non-technical skills in solving problems.” In fulfilling this mandate, many institutions offer aone or two-semester culminating capstone project for seniors where they work with a projectsponsor to produce the desired deliverable. Capstone projects provide a great experientiallearning opportunity for students to own the project and their learning while applying the desiredtechnical and non-technical skills to solve problems [2]. Team capstone projects provideengineering technology programs a unique opportunity to assess the 1 – 5 student outcomes [3].For example

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Raman Menon Unnikrishnan; Ricardo V. Lopez

rewarding and unique benefits centered on the followingaspects: • Develop friendships and connections with students and faculty within the College of ECS. Students are block scheduled and placed in a FYS course each semester of their first year (1 unit in the fall and 2 in the spring semester) with an instructor with a PhD in Engineering or Computer Science. • Receive specialized academic advisement for general education and major coursework under the guidance of CASECS and a graduate-student academic advisor. • Learn how to study for core math, science, engineering and computer science courses in specialized Freshmen Interest Groups lead by upperclassmen. • Receive intensive tutoring and academic

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Chiara Silvestri; Suzanne LePage; Paul P. Mathisen

used to produce interactive training and support videos byrecording interaction with software applications and websites or capturing power pointpresentations as videos and audio as depicted in Fig. 1 [2]. Especially in the educational field,pre-recorded videos can be employed for demonstrating visual and technical subjects. Instructorscan record live presentations and make content accessible as popular video format, enabling thestudents to learn according their own pace, or to simply to make-up absence in class. Also, theserecorded videos allow the students to follow step-by-step operations during softwaredemonstrations, which is sometimes hectic with use of paper tutorials. The Camtasia tutorialswere used in a set of undergraduate courses in

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Amelito G. Enriquez

electronicwhiteboard features that allow participation from all students. As previously described, most ofthe illustrative examples were given as exercises that students solved using the Tablet PCs whilethe instructor observed and guided their progress, and provided individual assistance through theNetSupport School software. For the comparison, non-ILN groups, the class structure wasinstructor-centered and non-interactive both during the introduction of new topics and solutionsof illustrative examples.The last row of Table 1 shows that for three of the four groups (2006 Cañada, 2007 Cañada, and2007 SFSU) the instructor used the same method in generating and delivering lecture notes to thestudents. For these three groups, the instructor used a Tablet PC in

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2022 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Thomas McKean; Jorge Almodovar; Aubrey Schultz; Natacha S. Melgar; S. Ranil Wickramasinghe

rest of the firstweek.Weekly research meetings were held by the graduate student managers and faculty as available tocheck in with the students. This time was designed to assess the students’ weekly progress, providea forum to practice presenting technical ideas, give feedback, answer questions, and communicateany upcoming events or deadlines. A major component of these meetings was a session for studentsto develop and present a ‘quad’ slide summarizing their current progress. Figure 1 provides samplequad slides created by the students. Commonly used in industry and government to provide shortupdates on ongoing projects, the four quadrants of the quad slide included introduction, methods,results, and conclusions/future work [1]. The

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2013 GSW

Authors

Xiao Peng; Lex Gonzalez; Eric Haney; Amen Omoragbon; Bernd Chudoba

Friday Morning Session 1 - Student AVDKBS - Standing on the Shoulders of Giants Xiao Peng, Lex Gonzalez, Eric Haney, Amen Omoragbon and Bernd Chudoba Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX AbstractGeorge Santayana is known for saying “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned torepeat it”. Throughout the development history of aerospace engineering conceptual design,much knowledge has been generated although, to the best of our knowledge, no efficient systemhas been developed to help aerospace

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Marilyn A. Dyrud

community during the Third Reich, however, gives us reason to pause and ponder.From an engineering perspective, the Holocaust is the ultimate in problem solving: how toeliminate 11 million people (the estimated number of Jews on the planet in the 1930s) in anefficient and cost-effective manner and how to dispose of the remains in a way that would notcompromise public health. The answer was the development of death camps in Poland, ―amethodical blueprint for murder,‖1 the result of a brainstorming session at the 1941 WannseeConference. Someone, however, had to design and construct the infrastructure to support thecamp system, as well as develop the instruments of death and disposal and methods for trackingthe population of Europe to identify those

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Keith L. Hohn; LaVerne Bitsie-Baldwin; Julia Keen; Hani Melhem; Anil Pahwa; Jan Wiersema; Barb Licklider

2 Learning Communities Focused On Student Learning and Teamwork SkillsKeith L. Hohn1, LaVerne Bitsie-Baldwin1, Julia Keen1, Hani Melhem1, Anil Pahwa1, Jan Wiersema2, and Barb Licklider2 1 College of Engineering, Kansas State University/ 2College of Human Sciences, Iowa State University 2AbstractEngineers are increasingly being valued as much for their ability to learn new things and operateas a member of a team as for their technical skills. For this reason, a significant goal ofengineering education

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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Benjamin Kelley

and Computer Science has been an active participatein “a national partnership of universities with the shared mission to graduate engineers with anentrepreneurial mindset…” These efforts are coordinated by the Kern EngineeringEntrepreneurial Network (KEEN) under the mantra that “it is critical for engineering schools toteach a technical skillset and an entrepreneurial mindset-fostering curiosity, connections and thecreation of value” …”so that students can create personal, economic, and societal value througha lifetime of meaningful work.”One approach used to implement KEEN EM ideals at Baylor was to commission KEENInnovators to explore opportunities to expose students to EM topics and experiences within aclassroom setting.1-3 This is more

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2024 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Timothy Frank; Daphne DePorres; Emily Stoneham; Joel Sloan P.E.; Vincent Bongionanni; Eric Tucker

drawing selecting from viable alternatives. of an object I choose. 16. I can communicate clearly through an oral 8. I can develop a basic project management plan presentation. including cost estimates and timelines. 17. I can write a technical report. 9. When shown a drawing, I can use tools such as 18. I can clearly communicate through charts and saws and drills to build something with wood. figures. Fig 1: Summary of skills developed during the courseDiversity ExemplarsThe students generally did not seem to consider exploration of diversity a particular high point ofthe course, even when they watched and

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Joseph A. Levert; Andy Grosso

. These include These needs tend to be of a technical nature, which theAbility One, the Generator School Network, and the member agencies have limited resources to address internally.Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society The coordination includes involvement of the instructionalof North America (RENSA) [13], [14], [15]. All three serve faculty to aid in developing the scope of the projects to fitas information sources and both Ability One [16] and RENSA students’ abilities and needs prior to down-selection. Once thesponsor student assistive design competitions. These capstone projects are launched early in the students’ fallsignificant efforts still may fall

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2008 GSW

Authors

Jerry K. Keska; Chengyi Ma

preliminary experimental research for the visually distinguished and arbitrarilychosen three flow patterns was performed in such way that the flow patterns could generatesufficient differences in interfacial phenomena (bubble, froth, or disperse) for two kinds ofheterogeneous and optically transparent mixtures (air with water or glycerin). Observing the flow ina vertical tube using two variations of optical systems (reflective and passing) with a newlydeveloped computer-aided experimentation system generated the following conclusions:1. The voltage output data from a DC Wheatstone Bridge were taken in time domain using twooptical systems (passing and reflective), both of which were responsive to the interfacialphenomenon. For a passing (translucent

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

W. Riddell; E. Constans; J. Courtney; K. Dahm; R. Harvey; P. Jansson; M. Simone; P. von Lockette

tenet is listed, followed by anexplanation and discussion of the observations that led to the statement of that tenet, and specificchanges that were made as a result of the realization. Finally, general recommendations forteaching communication and design are made.SEC I and II at Rowan UniversitySophomore Engineering Clinic I and II are taken by all sophomore engineering students at RowanUniversity. A schematic diagram illustrating the content of the two-course sequence, as taught inthe 2004-2005 academic tear, is shown in Figure 1. In the fall semester (SEC I), the students aresplit into two different lab sections, each with approximately 60 students. All students work onthe same projects in SEC I. First, student teams work on a four-week

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Raman Unnikrishnan; Victor H. Delgado; Hye Sun Moon; Edward Sullivan

Americans is 67%,Caucasians, 60%, Hispanics, 44%, Native Americans, 39%, African Americans, 38% andfemales, 61%1-12. In California, about a third of the state’s students who intend to pursueengineering and computer science graduates degrees fail to achieve their goal, considerablyhigher than the 22% attrition rate nationally. While the state is home to more top researchuniversities and high tech industries than any other state, it is significantly under-producinggraduates with technical degrees3.In order to increase the number of engineering and computer science graduates, theunderrepresentation of Hispanic students in engineering and computer science graduates needs tobe addressed in California and particularly in Orange County where Hispanics

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2013 GSW

Authors

Melanie Sattler

Friday Morning Session 2 - Faculty Benefits of Service-Learning in Meeting Learning Objectives: Examples from Air Pollution/Environmental Engineering Courses Melanie Sattler Civil Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington AbstractService learning is “a teaching method which combines community service with academic instruction as it focuses on critical, reflective thinking and civic responsibility.”1 Dozens ofstudies have documented many benefits of service learning for students, including improved 1)ability to

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2008 GSW

Authors

Benjamin S. Kelley; Adam P. Ecklund; Aaron Dabney

improve thisintervention initiative, with the revised program design containing academic- and preparatory-skillscomponents available during the summer and in advance of normal fall enrollment. IntroductionThe importance of engineering and computer science innovations and creativity to Americanprosperity and quality of life is widely acknowledged.1 Many studies have documented the needand demand for U.S. engineers, especially in the Sunbelt states.2, 3 University and college academicengineering programs play a paramount role in supplying the nation’s technical workforce throughattracting, retaining, educating, and graduating a diverse and capable population of practicingengineers.1Although collegiate

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Timothy J. Annesley; David P. Miller

areas of study but due tothe nature of this course it is used minimally and not the focus of the course design. The AME4802 design uses the single weekly lecture to present material associated with the currentproblem to be assigned, as well as a time where tests can be administered. Figure 1: Model of problem-based learning process11The bulk of the learning that takes place in AME 4802 is through PBL. As seen from Figure 1,PBL can be modeled as an iterative process that begins with the introduction of the problem tothe students. For the purposes of this class, the problem would generally be a particular Proceedings of the 2008 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Ashwin Satyanarayana; Hong Li; Josephine Braneky

. REFERENCES[1] Turner, S. E., (2004), Going to College and Finishing College. Explaining Different Educational Outcomes, p. 13-62 in , College Choices: The Economics of Where to Go, When to Go, and How to Pay For It, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.[2] Deming, D., & Dynarski, S. (2008). The lengthening of childhood. The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 22(3), 71–92[3] Obama, B. (2009, February). Address to Joint Session of Congress. Speech presented in Washington, D.C.

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Timothy Burg; Pamela Mack; Ian Walker; Richard Groff

0 0 2 2 0 3 4 3 0 1 H 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 4 0 I 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 J 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 K 0 0 0The survey was administered in two courses offered during the 2014 summer session at ClemsonUniversity. Students in ECE6550 - Robot Manipulators were seniors and graduate students inelectrical or mechanical engineering taking a technical course on robotics. Twenty studentscompleted the survey at the

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2008 GSW

Authors

Farrokh Attarzadeh; Miguel A. Ramos; Enrique Barbieri

beimplemented. These changes will prompt modifications in the grading structure as well asthe tools used to assess student learning. These changes will be informed by the analysespresented here as well as the results of new analyses from spring 2008.ELET 4308 is not just a senior course but a glimpse of the corporate world experiencedby students before beginning their professional careers. The innovative ideas introducedby students are molded and refined into proper form by the end of the project. Some ofthese ideas have been issued patents and been published in technical/research journals [1-5]. The environment provided by the capstone class simulates the industrial environmentand gives the students a solid foundation for technical and management

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2009 GSW

Authors

Kenneth W. Van Treuren

possess time management skills. As far ascommunication, students’ written and oral skills are lacking as is evidenced by e-mails, meetingswith professors, and just their interactions in general. Entering students usually write like theyspeak in everyday language. Another observation is that students do not read enough and, as aresult, their vocabulary is lacking, especially technical vocabulary. In all, students are not veryknowledgeable about engineering and the skills needed for success when they arrive at theuniversity.Secondary school Principals point to some reasons why these gaps exist, especially in schoolswith high populations of minority students12. Because of the lack of resources (funding), thereare not enough qualified teachers for