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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Bernard Goldberg

organizations.I. IntroductionIt is commonly thought that the best way of doing each project would be to select the alternativewhose cash flows have the largest net present-value. But net present-values are not defined untildiscount rates are specified. If low discount rates are specified, alternatives with the largest netpresent-values could have output cash flows that are received in the distant future. Specifyinghigh discount rates would reduce the net present-values of distant cash flows. How high thediscount rate should be is an open question in both theory and practice. Discount rates in currentuse often include engineering and marketing risks as well as investor opportunity costs. Thisresults in discount rates such as weighted average -costs-of

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Mackay; George DeLancey; Richard Cole; Bernard Gallois; Keith Sheppard; Gerald Rothberg

our graduatesin concert with the goals of ABET EC 2000. The Design Spine provides a design experience ineach of the eight semesters for all of our engineering programs 1. A key feature is the extent towhich the core design courses are coupled to the core engineering-science courses to enhancelearning. Open-ended projects together with experiments in the design courses are chosen toprovide context for and reinforce the engineering science taught concurrently. The Design Spinealso provides the vehicle to develop key competencies in problem solving, effectivecommunication, project management, ethics, economics of engineering, teaming and industrialecology in an evolutionary manner throughout the sequence. The embodiment of this approachin the

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ELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Huettel, Duke University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

. Page 22.374.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Connecting Theory and Practice: Laboratory-based Explorations of the NAE Grand ChallengesAbstractThis paper describes a pilot project, conducted during the Fall 2010 semester, that incorporatedlaboratory exercises inspired by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grand Challengesinto an introductory digital signal processing course. The Challenges were broadly interpretedand local expertise and resources were used to enhance the experience. In one project, studentsinvestigated environmental sensors in the local “SmartHome” and followed up by analyzingactual solar and electrical energy usage data. In another

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Education Session 3

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nabila A. Bousaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; James M. Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Carolina Agricultural &Technical State University. Some of the senior design teams that she mentored include the UNCC Parking team, IEEE Hardware competition teams. In addition she mentored industry sponsored projects from Microsoft, NASA and special Innovation and Entrepreneurship teams. She published and presented papers in ASEE conferences in June 2009, 2010, and 2011. Prior to her current position at UNC- Charlotte, Nan worked for IBM (15 years) and Solectron (8 years) in the area of test development and management.Dr. James M. Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte James M. Conrad received his bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana, and his master’s and doctorate

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Joshua H. Smith; David Brandes

meet the needs of the communities and, secondarily, to trainstudents to be globally and environmentally aware professionals. Because EWB–LC isorganized at Lafayette as a student club, it predominately operates outside of the academicprograms of Lafayette’s Division of Engineering. In addition, EWB–USA policies regarding thementoring of student work have evolved considerably since 2003, becoming more rigorous butalso more restrictive. For example, EWB–USA requires student chapters to have at least oneprofessional mentor with direct professional experience who participates in both the design andimplementation of project work. Because not all faculty advisors are qualified to serve as theprofessional mentors or willing to travel on implementation

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2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Joshua H. Smith; David Brandes

meet the needs of the communities and, secondarily, to trainstudents to be globally and environmentally aware professionals. Because EWB–LC isorganized at Lafayette as a student club, it predominately operates outside of the academicprograms of Lafayette’s Division of Engineering. In addition, EWB–USA policies regarding thementoring of student work have evolved considerably since 2003, becoming more rigorous butalso more restrictive. For example, EWB–USA requires student chapters to have at least oneprofessional mentor with direct professional experience who participates in both the design andimplementation of project work. Because not all faculty advisors are qualified to serve as theprofessional mentors or willing to travel on implementation

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2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Ahmed S. Khan; Beverly Cronin; Maneesh Kumar; Atef Mustafa; Pankti Patel; Joey Socorro

Application of RFID Technology in a Senior Design Course Ahmed S. Khan Beverly Cronin Maneesh Kumar Atef Mustafa Pankti Patel Joey Socorro DeVry University, Addison, Illinois 60101, USA AbstractThis paper describes the design and implementation of a senior project based on RFID (RadioFrequency Identification) technology. The objective of the project, titled “Real Space PhysicalObject Tracking System (RSPOTS), was to design a complete

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Christopher McComb; Fariborz Tehrani

255 Research and Practice Group Methodology: A Case Study in Student Success Christopher McComb and Fariborz Tehrani Carnegie Mellon University/ California State University, FresnoAbstractExperiential learning is a key component in engineering education. In civil engineering, thiscomponent is typically delivered through multiple projects. These projects may include termprojects for individual courses, senior design projects, theses, or independent studies. The focusof these experiences may gradually shift from practice-oriented projects in undergraduate studiesto research-oriented projects in

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Capstone and Design

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jamie Szwalek, University of Illinois at Chicago; Yeow Siow, University of Illinois at Chicago; Jaqueline Oxmara Rojas Robles, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Mechanical Engineering

, the quality and quantity of the support staff, in particular undergraduateteaching assistants, were found to be more crucial than anticipated and a robust recruitmentprocess became necessary. The high-stake design project in ME 250 changes each semester toprevent students from obtaining a set of solutions or project reports from prior terms, so teachingassistant training is continuous. The specifics of each problem encountered will be described inthe paper, along with lesson learned on how best to handle each situation and create a structurewhere continuous improvement can be made sustainable.Keywords: first year design, mechanical engineering, Arduino, project-based engineering1 IntroductionME 250 is a first-year design course offered at

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nikunja Swain, South Carolina State University

State University) has an ongoing Target Infusion Proposal grant from National Science Foundation(NSF) to address the problem of the lack of awareness and participation in cyber security since 2019.The project vision is to create a successful model of institution wide reform for undergraduatecybersecurity education at SC State University using instruction, internships, and seminars. The studentshould be able to evaluate, make decisions, and take responsible actions in the context of cyber security.This project uses a multi-tier approach to increase capacity in cyber security education, training, andawareness in the undergraduate curriculum The objective of this poster presentation is to share ourexperiences with various project activities. The

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2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Qingli (Barbara) Dai

) tutorials were effectively used to learn NX. Specific parts of eachtutorial are assigned for learning the solid modeling skills. The design projects built theskills of what has been learned in tutorial assignments by modeling real mechanicalsystems.MTU hosted the Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education(PACE) Competition in CAD Methods class (MEEM 4403). The course final deignproject that comprises the team competition is the culmination of lab assignmentsperformed throughout the semester. Each team made a formal presentation to the PACEjudges to explain the design objectives, design features, features of the CAD model, andany issues related to working collaboratively on a team. The design itself was presentedusing screen

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University; Austin Spencer Bohlin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 NSF CAREER: Towards a framework for engineering student innovationAbstractThe ability to innovate is essential in the rapidly evolving technological landscape. Many effortshave been made in engineering education to support student innovation (e.g., innovation andentrepreneurship programs and targeted courses). Yet, research on how engineering studentsapproach and experience innovation has been limited. In this CAREER project we conducted aseries of empirical studies using interviews, think-aloud protocols, and surveys to examineengineering students’ innovation skills, views of the innovation process, and experiences thatsupporedt their development of innovative competencies. Informed by

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Biomedical Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kiersten Lenz, University of New Mexico; Eva Chi, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Linnea K. Ista, University of New Mexico; Heather Canavan, University of New Mexico

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Diversity

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Biomedical Engineering

undergraduate courses to train engineers who are critical thinkers, problem solvers, and able to understand the societal contexts in which they are working to addressing the grand challenges of the 21st century.Dr. Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a learning scientist and assistant professor at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information & Learning Sciences program, and in the Chemical & Biological Engineering Department. She served as Co-PI on an NSF RET Grant and a USDA NIFA grant, and is currently co-PI on three NSF-funded projects in engineering and computer science education, including a Revolutioniz- ing Engineering Departments project. She was selected as a

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Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University; Tom Merrill, Rowan University; Robert Alan Hirsh, Cooper University Hospital; Sameer Sood, Rowan School of Osteopathic Medicine

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Biomedical

. Page 26.1762.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Work-In-Progress: Clinical Immersion and Team-Based Engineering DesignINTRODUCTIONA clear need exists to streamline healthcare to reduce costs while enhancing patient care anddevelop more cost effective and safer medical devices. To meet this need, we must increase thenumber and the quality of bioengineers trained to identify and solve healthcare problems, anddevelop solutions through biomedical engineering education experiences.Improving team-based design experiences driven by new projects drawn from unmet clinicalneeds is a strategy to train engineers while simultaneously addressing healthcare

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Colby Ryan; Alexis Crandall; Mitch Martinez; David Kennedy; Kristian Ecolango; Jay Porter; Joseph Morgan

. areas has on recruiting and retention. To this end, the Capstone is designed to prepare future engineers degree program has required course work in four areas:by bridging the gap between the classroom and industry. analog and digital electronics, wired and wirelessStudents are required to form teams of two to six members communications, embedded hardware and software, andwhich allows them to develop the skills necessary to system level design of monitoring and control applications.succeed in a diverse industry setting. Each team is required In addition, the curriculum is augmented through courses into use their knowledge and skills to design, develop, industry-applicable skills including project

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ChE Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hyerim Kim, Yonsei University; Jiyong Kim, Yonsei University; Yoon-Su Baek, Yonsei University; Il Moon, Yonsei University

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Chemical Engineering

solvingproblems, eliminating defects and improving business results. In order to increase students’creative ability, college should provide them with the Six Sigma. Learning about such a well-structured approach and developing related skills would enable today's students to becometomorrow's more effective employees.In this program, fifty-three students in the class are divided into 13 groups. As project, eachgroup finds college facilities and services to be improved and tries to solve these problems withDMAIC. The curriculum in this class furnishes instant feedback to the students by solving theproblems directly associated with them. The students’ creative thinking and power of expressingare also improved by learning various creative skills and teamwork

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Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley State College; Floyd Wilkes, Utah Valley University; Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University

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Information Systems

paper, we present the reactions of the students whoparticipated in this process.2. Teams of TwoAs part of a junior level computer science database theory class (CS 3520) students wereorganize into teams of two. Each team selected a project from a list of projects providedby the instructor (see Figure 1). Team 1: Employee Database Team 2. Bank Database Team 3. University Database Page 14.1090.2 Team 4. Patient Database Team 5. Recipe Database Figure 1. Projects SelectedFor the first phase of the project

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Diversity and Global Experiences

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Randy S. Lewis, Brigham Young University; Terri Christiansen Bateman, Brigham Young University; Carol J. Ward, Brigham Young University

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering

associate professor in the Sociology Department. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Assessment of a Global Engineering Outreach CourseIntroduction.Since the establishment of Engineers Without Borders in 20021, opportunities for students athigher learning institutions to participate in global development projects has been enhanced. In2007, a multi-disciplinary course for engineering and technology students was established atBrigham Young University where students could work on global problems, researching not onlytechnical but economic and socio-cultural issues. The two-semester Global EngineeringOutreach (GEO) course has involved students who were selected following an applicationprocess

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Course Transformation in ECE

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chaomin Luo, Mississippi State University; Zhuming Bi P.E., Purdue University Fort Wayne; Wenbing Zhao, Cleveland State University

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Electrical and Computer

ICIA2017). He is an ASEE, INFORMS, and IEEE member. He is currently an Associate Editor of The 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IEEE-IROS 2019) .Prof. Zhuming Bi P.E., Purdue University Fort Wayne Zhuming Bi is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Department of Civil and Mechanical En- gineering, Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA. He served as a Senior Engineer at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of USA (2016), a Senior Project Engineer at Northern Ireland Tech- nology Centre, Queen’s University Belfast of UK (2007 – 2009), a Research Scientist at the Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute of National Research Council Canada (2003 – 2007), a

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chelsea Mann, Arizona State University; Kristen Parrish, Arizona State University; Mikhail Chester, Arizona State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

. Specifically, she is interested in novel design processes that financially and technically facilitate energy-efficient buildings. Her work also explores how principles of lean manufacturing facilitate energy-efficiency in the commercial building industry. Another research interest of Kristen’s is engineering education, where she explores how project- and experience-based learning foster better understanding of engineering and management principles. Prior to joining ASU, Kristen was at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) as a Postdoctoral Fellow (2009-11) and then a Scientific Engineering Associate (2011-2012) in the Building Technologies and Urban Systems Department. She worked in the Commercial Buildings group

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Multidisciplinary Effects on Student Learning

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Ortegon, Universidad Icesi

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

members of the team composed of students from the UniversidadIcesi and the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali participating in the SolarDecathlon for Latin America & Caribbean 2015 was carried out three timesduring the competition: at the beginning stage, in the middle of the project, and atthe end of the competition. The goal was to analyze the attainment of studentoutcomes and their development over time. This team was comprised of 40students from eight professional disciplines (including four industrial engineeringstudents) for more than a year. Furthermore, this study presents how theinterdisciplinary composition of the team evolved throughout the development ofthe project in order to fulfill the requirements of the competition. The

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Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge E. Bohorquez, University of Miami; Ramón Benjamin Montero, University of Miami

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Biomedical Engineering

Miami Dr. Montero is an Assistant Professor in Professional Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engi- neering under the College of Engineering at the University of Miami. Dr. Montero has over a decade of experience in scaffold fabrication techniques for tissue engineering applications particularly with the electrospinning and bioprinting processes. He has worked in the private sector managing animal labora- tories as well as R&D projects for various private companies and start-ups. Currently, Dr. Montero is part of the faculty team managing all senior design capstone projects. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work in Progress - Introduction to Design Thinking and

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Making, Hacking, and Extracurricular Design

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Petney, Rice 360 Institute for Global Health; Samuel Gonthako Ng'anjo, University of Malawi, The Polytechnic; Joseph Chikaphonya Phiri, University of Malawi, The Polytechnic; Matthew Wettergreen, Rice University; Ann Saterbak, Duke University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

studied professional Production Engineering at Malawi Polytechnic, Bach- elors in Industrial Engineering at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) in South Africa and Masters in manufacturing at Swinburne University of Technology (SUT) in Australia.Mr. Joseph Chikaphonya Phiri, University of Malawi, The Polytechnic A staff associate at The Malawi Polytechnic, a constituent college of The University of Malawi, under the Electrical Engineering department. Coordinator of final year projects in the department and an enthusiast of Innovation.Dr. Matthew Wettergreen, Rice University Matthew Wettergreen is a Lecturer in Engineering at the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen at Rice University. He is also the Assistant

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Inquiry, Inclusivity, and Integration

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Harshdutta I Pandya, Rowan University; Yusuf Mehta P.E., Rowan University; Andrae Francois, Rowan University Center for Research and Education in Advanced Transportation Systems (CREATEs); Dan Offenbacker, Rowan University, Center for Research and Education in Advanced Transportation Engineering Systems (CREATEs)

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Civil Engineering

Education in Advanced Transportation Sys-tems (CREATEs)Dr. Dan Offenbacker, Rowan University, Center for Research and Education in Advanced Transportation En-gineering Systems (CREATEs) c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Inclusive Learning Approach to Teach Concepts of Pavement Management Systems for Senior-Year Undergraduate and Graduates StudentsAbstract The goal of this paper is to disseminate an enhanced methodology and strategy to collegeinstructors that can be successfully employed in a data-driven, project based course likePavement Management Systems (PMS). PMS is a course offered in the Department of CivilEngineering at Rowan University’s

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Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports

Structuring Senior Design for Entrepreneurs Ken Ports Florida Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe Senior Design course taken near the end of an engineer’s undergraduate tenure isincreasingly recognized as a “capstone” activity, enabling these future professionals to applytheir collegiate education and experience in a team environment to solving real world problemsor to creating new capabilities. Ideally, Senior Design teams are also cross-functional, tobroaden the projects and better replicate the professional world. In addition, there is a growinginterest in linking Senior Design with entrepreneurial activities, even to the point ofcommercializing

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Assessment in BME Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rich Fries; Paul King; John Gassert; Joan Walker; Paul Yock; Sean Brophy; Jay Goldberg

courses were discussed. These topics included placement of thecourses in the curriculum, course objectives, solicitation and management of projects, possiblesponsored national or international design contests, and industry sponsorship of project groups. Extensive notes and concept maps were generated for each of the topics discussed as thegroup met as a “committee of the whole.” The essence of the discussions provided a goodgeneral overview of the need by design instructors for mutual sharing of resources and ofindustry input to design courses, both in lecture content and in sponsorship of relevant designchallenges. The group considers that there are several action items that will need to be addressedas time allows, such as: 1. the development

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Relevance of and Models for Community Engagement in Engineering Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James L. Huff, Purdue University; Dulcy M. Abraham, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Community Engagement Division

the possibility of Engineering Projects inCommunity Service (EPICS) as a transitional experience to engender global competency amongengineering students. The curricular-based model of EPICS supports vertically-integrated, multi-disciplinary, engineering service-learning projects at a Purdue University. Historically, thislong-standing program has paired student design teams with local, community partners. In thispaper, we document how these partnerships have been expanded to global communities, and howthe current curriculum, in both local and global contexts, can be used to engender globalcompetency in engineering students. We consider the efficacy of EPICS to engender global

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Krchnavek; Shreekanth Mandayam

projects knownas “Clinics” that students are required to take every semester of their curriculum. As a team ofinstructors who teach the Engineering Electromagnetics (EEMAG) I and II sequence, we weremotivated by a desire to create a set of courses, that require students to do real and relevantengineering electromagnetics – and utilize these skills effectively in later courses and clinicprojects. It is difficult to tackle all topics in a 7-week period so care must be taken to emphasizekey topics and strengthen understanding through real-world laboratory exercises. We present someexamples of a successful implementation of these objectives in this paper. We discuss numerousreal-world applications that are studied during our single semester sequence

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Assessment and Curriculum Development

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Branimir Pejcinovic, Portland State University; Melinda Holtzman, Portland State University; Andrew Greenberg, Portland State University

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

Paper ID #42989Assessing Sophomore Cornerstone Courses in Electrical and Computer EngineeringProf. Branimir Pejcinovic, Portland State University Branimir Pejcinovic received his Ph.D. degree from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is a Professor and former Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education at Portland State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering department. He has led department-wide changes in curriculum with emphasis on project- and lab-based instruction and learning. He was awarded the best paper award by the ECE division of ASEE in 2017 for his work on freshman engineering course

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Fahmida R. Masoom; Abulkhair M. Masoom

equipment. Involvement of undergraduate engineering students ofdifferent levels in research projects with different levels of guidance from faculty or engineersfrom industry has been found to have positive outcomes.At the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, several initiatives have been undertaken to exposeundergraduate engineering students to engineering design. Apart from the conventional upperlevel engineering design courses and senior capstone design courses, the most recent initiativehas been the introduction of design at the freshman level in the Introduction to Engineeringcourse required for all incoming freshmen. Another undergraduate research program - PioneerUndergraduate Research Fellowship (PURF) initiated about a half dozen years ago