Conference Session

Understanding Students' Authentic and Reflective Experiences of Ethics Education

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Madeline Polmear, University of Florida; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado Boulder

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Engineering Ethics

, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity.Dr. Chris Swan, Tufts University Chris Swan is Dean of Undergraduate Education for the School of Engineering and an associate pro- fessor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Tufts University. He has additional appointments in the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life and the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts. His current engineering education research interests focus on community engage- ment, service-based projects and examining whether an entrepreneurial mindset can be used to further engineering education innovations. He also does research on the development of sustainable materials management (SMM) strategies.Dr. Daniel

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Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carrie Dossick, University of Washington; Kirk Hochstatter, University of Washington; Alireza Borhani, University of Washington; Lucky Pratama, University of Washington; Bijesh Gautam, University of Washington; Ahmed Abdel Aziz; Hyun Woo Lee, University of Washington; Sanaz Saeidi

that include earthwork, undergroundutilities, concrete, steel, wall framing, exterior & interior finishes, and add-ons like fees,overhead, and applicable taxes. The skills developed in this course will help the students withcompleting assignments and capstone projects that are assigned in the CM 331 Estimating classthat is taken during the same quarter.CM 414 - Virtual ConstructionThe learning outcomes for this course are to assess the applications of electronic-basedtechnology to manage the construction process, and to support the creation of writtencommunications and oral presentations appropriate to the construction discipline, constructionproject cost estimates and schedules, analyze construction documents for planning andmanagement of

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Pieter A. Voss; James M. Tien; Anil K. Goyal

to the uncertain andstochastic nature of, as examples, project cash flows and interest rates. Unfortunately, this traditional approachdoes not provide students with the skills to deal with real world situations, which inherently involve uncertaintyand thereby, risk. Typically, most Engineering Economy texts for undergraduate students deal with uncertaintyand risk only in brief chapters, usually at the end of the book. The uncertain environment is introduced as aspecial case, rather than as the norm. In this paper, we propose an approach to learning Engineering Economythat is characterized by treatment of uncertainty and is motivated by risk; in fact, it considers the deterministiccase as a special case. The availability of computers today

Conference Session

Proven Strategies in Classroom Engagement Part II: Activities for Creative Pedagogy

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Celio Biering P.E., Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, United States Military Academy; Joseph P Hanus, U.S. Military Academy; Rahul Verma P.E., United States Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

Academy seeks to educate and inspire their civil engineering studentsthrough a rigorous and realistic academic program. One of the cornerstone courses in theprogram is a Construction Management Course that incorporates a variety of hands-on, real-world, learning challenges. The objective of the first third of the course is for the students togain a foundational understanding of the basics of construction management to include projectbidding, contract mechanisms, scheduling, estimating, and project controls. The topics arepresented in a traditional classroom environment. The students are then challenged in the nextthird of the course to apply those construction management skills in a hands-on constructionsimulation exercise identified as the

Conference Session

Peace, Conflict, and Sustainability: Addressing Global and Ethical Issues in Engineering Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert J Muscat, Global Peace Services USA; Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Donna M Riley, Virginia Tech; Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics, Engineering and Public Policy

engineering professor at the University ofColorado Boulder and has interests in sustainability, Learning Through Service (course-basedservice-learning and extracurricular service programs), social responsibility development instudents, ethics, and global issues. Her teaching for undergraduate students has focusedprimarily in the first year and capstone design, with learning outcomes targeting sustainability inall of her courses. She has found that project-based learning is an effective method to achieve adiversity of inter-related, complex learning outcomes. She has also found that case studies canserve as the basis for stimulating students’ considerations of complex issues such as ethics andsustainability. A case study that she has used for many

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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

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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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xi Wang, Drexel University; Kathleen M Short; Christine Marie Fiori

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

Paper ID #41199Board 69: Learning Sustainable Development Through Integrative DesignProcess (a Case Study)Dr. Xi Wang, Drexel University Xi Wang is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Construction Management at Drexel University. She received her Ph.D. and M.Eng both in Civil Engineering, from the University of Kentucky and Auburn University. She is licensed as a Professional Engineer and LEED Green Associate. She is teaching a range of courses in construction management and will be assisting capstone design projects that directly serve regional construction firms. Her research interests include technology adoption in

Conference Session

Student Learning and Assessment

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andre Butler, Mercer University; William Moses, Mercer University

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Mechanical Engineering

Method of Assessment to Examine Experimental Design in Mechanical Engineering LaboratoriesStudents in the mechanical specialization at Mercer University are currently required to take twogeneral mechanical engineering laboratory courses—one in the third year of the curriculum andthe other in the fourth year. The first of these courses begins with seven or eight single periodlaboratories in which the students are directed to complete a well-defined set of procedures andperform simple analyses. In an effort to more formally introduce experimental design into thelaboratory experience, this course ends with a three project sequence in which students areprovided with an experimental objective (e.g., determine the coefficient of

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2020 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Joel Abreu; Chris Cassidy; Jamie Kubeck; Jon Laos; Matthew McGarvey; Alexander Loui; Raymond Ptucha

friendly, and safe manner. Most car manufacturers are focusing on publicroad transportation, but an intermediate proving ground may be large industrial, government andacademic campuses. This paper discusses the design and integration of an autonomous golf cart vehiclecalled the Autonomous People Mover (APM) as part of a multidisciplinary capstone project for engineeringseniors. The APM has been through prior capstone projects which firstly made the vehicle remote control,and then added advanced sensors such as LiDAR, computer vision, and GPS. The focus of this research ison navigation, localization, and obstacle avoidance on a large college campus. Through theimplementation of a particle filter algorithm combined with A* navigation and image

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Adams

-Teams sponsored by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance. Studentsparticipating in E-Teams worked on entrepreneurial projects similar to that of the senior designstudents at the UNL. The work of both samples can be characterized as “capstone designprojects”. Students working on capstone designed projects were selected based on the premisethat capstone projects enable students to work in an environment which minimizes the student’sdependence on the professor and prepare students for “real world” experiences. 7 In developing a new instrument such as the TEQ it was important to explore the structureof the instrument. Kline suggests a ratio of 10 respondents per item is needed. 8 Therefore thesample size would need to be

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Vishnu Lakdawala; Oscar Gonzalez; James Leathrum Jr.; Stephen Zahorian

Capstone I Logic Design Micro- Computer Capstone II processors Arch. Probability & Statistics Data Operating Program. Structures Systems Discrete Software Structures

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Curriculum and Facility Developments for Innovative Energy Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Gilbert, Sinclair Community College

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

, energy management programs, and a survey ofenergy saving opportunities in commercial and industrial facilities. Energy Control Strategiesincorporates spreadsheets, computer programs, and performance simulation software to estimateenergy savings, implementation costs, CO2 reduction, and utility cost savings with theimplementation of energy saving opportunities. Commercial and Industrial Assessmentincorporates utility analysis, on location assessment format, operation of data collectionequipment, and compiling final reports. The Capstone Project provides the real-worldexperience of the entire assessment experience.IntroductionThe sequence of seven courses teaching energy assessment of residential, commercial, and

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Sellers; Douglas Bayley

help to provide expertise and extra funding. Challengesassociated with these courses and the associated project that the students are expected tocomplete are also discussed. How are student learning objectives and real worlddeadlines balanced? How is the problem of high student turn-around handled? Thepaper will discuss various solutions the Academy has evolved to address thesechallenges. The paper concludes with current program status and recent feedback fromstudents involved in the project.I. IntroductionThe capstone of the United States Air Force Academy’s Department of AstronauticsSmall Satellite curriculum is the FalconSAT Program. One goal of the program, housedwithin the Academy’s Small Satellite Research Center, is to give

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratories

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chiu Choi, University of North Florida

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

allows the students to develop embedded controlapplications without using additional tools. CodeWarrior is a powerful tool for programdevelopment and debugging. The microcontroller module is a complete single board computerthat the students can use immediately in their projects. The form factor for the module is smallenough that the projects become truly embedded systems. This kit is an inexpensive tool forlearning the fundamentals of microcontrollers and for building embedded control projects. Manyof our students have used this kit in their capstone design projects.VI. Student EvaluationThe linear control systems course integrated with the new microcontroller courseware was taughtin Fall 2006 and Fall 2008 semesters. University administered

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session III: Collaboration

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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Diversity

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College Industry Partnerships

for increased “relevancy” of engineering educationwith greater industry-academia collaboration on many fronts. It was inspired by a round tablediscussion, where engineering graduates of Region’s colleges have suggested ways to startdeveloping viable and enduring connections between local industries and the academicinstitutions of the Arab Gulf States. Strategies to help promote the collaboration effort areoutlined. In particular, activities (plans, and scenarios) perceived as effective in closing the gapbetween academia and industries are described. Training, capstone courses, consulting by facultymembers, and joint research projects, aimed at serving the interest of both parties (academia &the industrial partners) are also addressed. The

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division (ARCHE) Technical Session 3

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ziyi Wang, Penn State University; Robert M. Leicht, Pennsylvania State University; Ryan L. Solnosky P.E., Pennsylvania State University

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Architectural Engineering Division (ARCHE)

(Sufficient • Technical skill & Soft- skill learning • Strong technical skills technical skills) • Industry-specific courses • Happy people • Team collaboration & • Five-year program design • Contributing positively to the AEC industry Cooperation skills • Studio classes • Providing a good work culture for a company • Learning attitude • Senior Capstone • A passion for learning or a willingness to • Multi-disciplinary setting learn new things for projects In addition, Figure 2a shows response percentages for the following question: What makes(department) graduates unique and

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Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Sadraey, Daniel Webster College; Nicholas Bertozzi, Daniel Webster College

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Systems Engineering

a design project: 1. Conceptual design review; 2. Preliminarydesign review; 3. Evaluation and test review; 4. Critical design review.Success in system engineering derives from the realization that design activity requires a “team”approach. A general challenge in today’s environment pertains to implementing the overall systemdesign process rapidly, in a limited amount of time, and at a minimal cost. Multidisciplinary teams;experiential learning approaches, capstone design experiences, warnings on tort of negligence,feasibility studies, project planning, design requirements and constraints, trade-off analysistechniques, functional block diagram, design flowchart, design feedbacks, design management,work breakdown structure, design steps and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl West, UMass Lowell; John Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Manuel Heredia, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts Lowell

universities. The EPICS program involves electiveinterdisciplinary S-L courses that students can take from first year to senior year. Tsang (2000)and Lima and Oakes (2006) describe more examples of S-L in engineering courses. Most ofthese S-L courses are capstone or elective courses with some first-year introduction toengineering courses.By contrast, the college of engineering at U Mass Lowell has integrated service-learning intomany of its core required undergraduate courses over the last five years. In the current program,the S-L projects are intended to replace existing “paper” projects so they do not add more classor homework time for students. Courses and projects include and address a wide range of topics,and require thoughtful and often

Conference Session

Direct Measures of Student Performance

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Bronzini, George Mason University; John Matusik, The Engineering Groupe

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Civil Engineering

design required course. In this way the entire faculty has been involved inimproving student performance on the capstone design project.Finally, the jury results provide quantitative evidence that the students are achieving the programoutcomes. There is no result that points to weak performance on any of the outcomes.The civil engineering senior design course at George Mason will be undergoing some changes inthe near future, motivated by a significant increase in program enrollment (170 percent over thepast five years). Some of the methods presently in use do not scale very well to class sizes of 50or more. In the coming year some of the changes include modifying how teams are formed andtheir specific roles in the project, and the introduction

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Benoit Cushman-Roisin; Elsa Garmire

. Throughthe Cook Engineering Design Center, corporations submit to Thayer School a wide variety of designproblems, which become the basis of individual and group projects requiring close interaction betweenstudents and sponsoring companies. Further, opportunities are made available for all M.E. degreecandidates to assume internships in industry prior to graduation. The selection of projects andinternships is facilitated by the strong corporate and alumni network maintained by Thayer School.1. Introduction The economic success of the United States, and of the developed world in general, can beattributed unequivocally to industrial activity, which owes its very existence to both technologicalprogress and business management. While industry has

Conference Session

Who Should Teach the BOK

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Maccariella, Urban Engineers, Inc. / Rowan University

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Civil Engineering

, inspection, and design projects. He is an adjunct instructor for both Rowan University and Norwich University, teaching Senior Design I, Senior Design II, Civil Engineering Practice, and Advanced Structural Analysis II. He is active in the American Society of Civil Engineers (serves on the Bridge Security Committee), and the American Society of Highway Engineers (serves on the Southern New Jersey Board of Directors). Page 12.1459.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 The Role of Adjuncts In Teaching ASCE’s Body of KnowledgeAbstractThe National Research Council (NRC

Conference Session

Laboratory Innovations

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claire Yu Yan, University of British Columbia; Carolyn Labun, University of British Columbia

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Mechanical Engineering

, the School ofEngineering received its first accreditation from the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board(CEAB).The creation of a new School of Engineering offered an exciting opportunity to stress integrationand design from the outset. During the first two years, which are common to all three disciplines,all students study together, in an effort to both teach and show students the integration ofengineering concepts desired by industry and recognized by many as ideal. In addition to takingtraditional engineering courses, students (in both first and second year, and again in the fourthyear capstone design course) work in multi-disciplinary teams on major design projects thatintegrate technical knowledge and metaskills. As noted by

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Richardson; Dick Blandford

. Objectives3.1 Objectives in Creating the CourseIn looking at the computer engineering curriculum at the University of Evansville (UE) it seemedthat the spring term of the junior year was the best time to offer such a course. This allowsstudents to obtain adequate prerequisite preparation. It also gives them the opportunity tofollow-up and complete a major capstone project which includes real-time and embeddedsystems during their senior year. The objectives in creating the course were: • Keep hardware and software costs low so that the course can be offered inexpensively and so that students can do course assignments in their home/dorm as well as in a lab. • Use hardware and software similar to that currently being used in industry

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Meredith Aronson; Marie Reyes; Jeff Goldberg

community-baseddesign project with a group of lay healthcare workers (“Promotoras”) in Nogales, Arizona. Threeseniors, two juniors, and one sophomore worked to define requirements for an information systemin the Promotoras' offices. This project is, in 2002-3, being matured in the context of a multi-disciplinary senior capstone design program, where two of the students continued with the projectand are now leading a 4-person team in implementing a solution to those requirements. Page 8.598.6 -6-Program evaluation during this initial year consisted of focus group and individual interviews withsix

Conference Session

Real-World Applications

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Weissbach; David Loker; Ronald Krahe

 2004, American Society for Engineering Education"potentially enhance the portability of the equipment at the remote site and also integrate materialfrom more courses into this project.This project could also be expanded into a capstone design project by integrating the remote GPSsensor with remote data collection systems. This application would include collecting data fromvarious sensors in mobile systems. The cellular modem would allow both GPS data and datafrom other sensors to be accessed at remote sites.Bibliography1. National Instruments, LabVIEW, Version 6.1.2. GPS Guide for Beginners, web page http://www.garmin.com/manuals/GPSGuideforBeginners_Manual.pdf.3. GARMIN International, Inc., Garmin 15L wired OEM sensor, Part # 010-00240-02.4

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farrokh Attarzadeh, University of Houston; Deniz Gurkan, University of Houston; Mequanint A. Moges, University of Houston; Miguel Angel Ramos, University of Houston; Victor J. Gallardo, University of Houston; Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi

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NSF Grantees

technology  Improve retention and engagement of underrepresented studentsGenerally speaking, the curricular and instructional activities of the courses would address the first twoobjectives while mentor activities would attempt to address the last two objectives—although, it shouldbe apparent that all components of the project are interrelated at some level.The remainder of this paper focuses on the peer led mentoring model used and the challenges faced bymentors in the process of implementing the program activities at the primary project institution. It alsodescribes lessons learned as a result of these challenges and how these experiences helped the modelevolve to its current form which makes much wider use of senior capstone students

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Watkins; John Sullivan

Astronautics(Engineering) (AAE) has joined forces with the Aeronautical Technology Section (AOT) of theUniversity’s Department of Aviation Technology (AT) on experimental basis to provide seniorlevel students with a design/build/text experience in an interdisciplinary team environment. Thepaper identifies the two types of projects (specific objective and research) used in support ofinterdisciplinary activities. It describes previous projects and discusses some of the successesand difficulties experienced in pursuit of this effort. Industry’s reaction to these interdisciplinaryteam activities is discussed, as well as, future plans for the expansion of interdisciplinarydesign/build/test team projects.IntroductionPurdue University provides a unique

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Gilbert Wedekind; Christopher Kobus

Session 1566 Optimal Design of a Thermal Recuperator Gilbert L. Wedekind, Christopher J. Kobus Department of Mechanical Engineering Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309AbstractThis paper describes the final design project for the senior level Fluid and Thermal SystemDesign course, which is a precursor to the Capstone Design Project at Oakland University. TheFluid and Thermal System Design course is geared to taking students through the entiretaxonomy of the design process; from knowledge, comprehension and application, to analysis,synthesis and

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND) Technical Session 14

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Tillman, University of Texas at El Paso; Diane Elisa Golding, University of Texas at El Paso; Song An, University of Texas at El Paso; Marianne Katherine Steele; Alice Carron, Navajo Technical University; Karime H Smith, University of Texas at El Paso; Thomas Joseph Soto, University of Texas at El Paso

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

Education Capstone, BED5331 Foundations of Bilingual Education & Teaching, BED 5332 Literacy Development inSpanish, and BED 5334 Teaching Content & Literature in Spanish; HIST 1301 History of U.S. to1865, HIST 1302 History of U.S. Since 1865, and HUMN 4309 Special Topics in Humanities. The projects multidisciplinary design benefits participants by expanding their geographichorizons, cultivating cross-disciplinary critical thinking skills, and immersing them in a webmodule that examines the complexities of the Rio Grande Basin and it’s impacts on Hispanics inthe USA from an engineering perspective. In addition to being incorporated into engineeringeducation, history, library sciences, educational technology, teacher preparation, and

Conference Session

Improving Visualization Skills

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yaomin Dong, Kettering University; Jacqueline A. El-Sayed, Marygrove College

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Engineering Design Graphics

’ spatial visualization skills for increased studentsuccess. The proposed methodology includes two steps: identifying students who should receiveremediation in spatial visualization and improving the existing Engineering Graphics courseofferings. An online test to assess students’ spatial visualization skills created by PurdueUniversity, a partner school in the ENGAGE project, was given to all engineering and sciencefreshman students at Kettering University. Based on the results, all students who scored lowerthan 60% will be recommended to take a spatial visualization course which will be developed asone of the deliverables in the NSF-ENGAGE grant. In addition, by testing students’ spatialvisualization skills before and after the existing initial