Conference Session

The Civil Engineering Technologist and the Civil Engineer – What’s the Difference?

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harry G Cooke P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Todd Dunn, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Scott B. Wolcott P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

complex projects after their first year of work, • Ability of graduates later in their careers to take the lead role in directing design work, as well as manage project budgets and clients, and • Ability of graduates to assume similar responsibilities at similar points in their career, as well as possess the educational and design experience needed for licensure. Table 1 – Overview of Survey StatementsCategory: Preparedness and abilities of new graduates during first year of workStatements: • Have the necessary knowledge in fundamental engineering subjects (e.g. statics, strength of materials, etc.) to start career. • Have

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Karanian, Stanford University; Mona Eskandari, University of California, Riverside; Annika Speer, University of California, Riverside; mariam salloum, University of California, Riverside

stories about virtualcollaboration during classes with an entrepreneurial collaboration component. Using a novelcombination of validated projective story-cue methodology and a survey, participants wereprompted during both the pandemic restricted remote classes and in-person to imagine theirexpectations for collaborating in an entrepreneurial classroom by projecting two ways: as ifit was in an in-person setting or as if it was a virtual setting. A goal of the continued study isto extend the analysis to compare and contrast the original findings comparing Winter 2021student responses (during a virtual educational mode) to Fall 2021 (during an in-personeducational mode) using a cohort of engineering students at the same public university.Findings

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Student Perceptions and Perspectives

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

George James Lamont, University of Waterloo; Stephanie Mutch, University of Waterloo; Chimdindu Ohaegbu, University of Waterloo ; Hamza Z. Butt, University of Waterloo; Kate Mercer, University of Waterloo; Kari D. Weaver, University of Waterloo

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First-Year Programs

engineering research practices, information-literacy skills, andcritical evaluation of information. Students undertook an iterative writing process and submittedfinal projects, recording their resource-selection process. These were evaluated to determine theimpact of the asynchronous learning module on students' information-seeking behavior. Finally,the results of this pedagogical reflection were compared to similar data recorded the previousyear following in-person instruction of the same material [8]. Our results demonstrate that theasynchronous learning module significantly enhanced the students’ critical evaluation of sources.These results have dramatic implications for how we understand students’ information-seekingbehaviors, pedagogical design

Conference Session

Engineering Design Process Activities with Secondary Students

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew J. Traum, Engineer Inc.; Sharon Liz Karackattu, Oak Hall School

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

-serving engineering universities in the U.S. Dr. Traum coordinated MSOE’s first crowd-funded senior design project. He also co-founded with students EASENET, a start- up renewable energy company to commercialize waste-to-energy biomass processors. Dr. Traum began his academic career as a founding faculty member in the Mechanical & Energy Engineer- ing Department at the University of North Texas - Denton where he established a successful, externally- funded researcher incubator that trained undergraduates to perform experimental research and encouraged matriculation to graduate school. Traum received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he held a research

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James R Vallino, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Bryan Basham, Software Alchemy (with RIT)

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Software Engineering Division

-based project. In many computing curricula, this is thefirst, and often only, coursework where students tackle a large team project. In the project work,students demonstrate their transference of knowledge of software engineering principles andpractices gained from lecture material and reading the textbook to actual project work.Our Experiences with the CourseOf all the courses in Rochester Institute of Technology software engineering curriculum, ourSWEN-261 Introduction to Software Engineering course is the one course that we never feel wehave done correctly. The students take the course in their second year after a first-year computerscience sequence. This is perhaps a bit earlier in our students' program than at other institutions.The course

Conference Session

Developing Systems Engineering Curriculum and Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jon Patrick Wade, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Systems & Enterprises); Roberta S Cohen, Stevens Institute of Technology; Nicholas S Bowen, Stevens Institute of Technology; Eirik Hole, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Systems and Enterprises)

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Systems Engineering

strategy, leading large teams, and talent development. Nick has led and contributed to many critical projects including saving the mainframe business, taking AIX/Power to the #1 UNIX position, establishing Linux servers in the enterprise market, and was on the team that built the first Bladed architecture for the general purpose x86 market. Nick received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University, and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Vermont. Nick has been on the advisory boards of many engineering schools including Florida International Uni- versity, North Carolina State University, University

Conference Session

Research On Student Teams

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Evans; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

Using a Vertically Integrated Team Design Project to Promote Learning and an Engineering Community of Practice Sandra Spickard Prettyman, Helen Qammar and Edward Evans Department of Foundations and Leadership/Department of Chemical Engineering University of Akron, Akron OH 44325Recent curriculum reforms in engineering education have focused on implementing thescholarship on pedagogy into the engineering classroom experience. For example, the paradigmshifts toward learner-centered versus teacher-centered delivery modes have been well establishedin many departments. In addition, department level curriculum reforms have begun to designintegration of concepts and skills

Conference Session

Focus on Entry Experiences in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University; Lori Smolleck, Bucknell University

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Chemical Engineering

AC 2011-2506: GIZMO FESTIVAL: K-8 OUTREACH AS A DESIGN/BUILDFOR ENGINEERING STUDENTSMargot A Vigeant, Bucknell University Margot is an associate professor of chemical engineering and associate dean of engineering at Bucknell University.Lori Smolleck, Bucknell University Page 22.746.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Gizmo Festival: K-8 Outreach as a Design/ Build for Engineering StudentsAbstractThe Gizmo Project is completed by first-year engineering students as the final exercise intheir introductory course: ENGR 100 – Exploring Engineering. The project also servesas a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denise Hum

increase thenumber and diversity of STEM students and improve STEM learning and teaching by bringingcoding and project-based learning to statistics students. Instead of Introduction to Statisticsbeing the last math class for students, it is serving as an onramp to data science, computerscience, engineering, and other STEM disciplines.2. Overview of Data Path ProgramIn Fall 2020, Skyline College was awarded an NSF IUSE grant to establish a new pathway intoSTEM through statistics and data science. The Data Path Program was initially launched inSpring 2021 with four math faculty members across five sections of Introduction to Statistics.The math department began paving the way for the Data Path in Spring 2019 by identifying localstate universities

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session: New and Innovative Technologies in Aerospace

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dustin Birch, Weber State University

performance using computational software.The first generation of CHRD has been designed, fabricated, and tested successfully. A small rocketmotor approximately two inches in diameter and ten inches long was fired multiple times during thespring of 2021, with preliminary results of rocket performance being documented. The current rocketprototype was the product of two consecutive academic years of senior capstone teams’ efforts. Thedesign, fabrication, and testing were supervised by a Mechanical Engineering faculty, who assumed therole of project manager and chief investigator.2 IntroductionNumerous examples of student projects focused on hybrid fuel rocket motors and hybrid rocket motorpowered flight vehicles are identified in the literature. The

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dominic Halsmer, Oral Roberts University; Hallett Hullinger, Oral Roberts University; Josiah Kesler, Oral Roberts University; Colin Sheehan, Oral Roberts University

-related Lab Experiments to Train Future K-12 Educators in Renewable Energy (Work in Progress)Abstract In an effort to motivate more youths from the USA to pursue a career in engineering,education accreditation agencies have recently emphasized the need to bring more engineering-related content into the K-12 classroom. The School of Engineering and the College ofEducation at Oral Roberts University are collaborating on a project to assist in meeting this goal.A general education course (taken by education majors) consisting of earth science laboratoryexperiments is being modified to include new experiments on how engineers attempt to makegood use of earth resources. Engineering students

Conference Session

DEED Technical Session 3 Capstone Design

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Austin Talley, Texas State University; C. Compeau, Texas State University

narrowfocus causes students to miss out on how other facets of an engineering project influence their work,and vice versa. To provide a broader and more realistic engineering experience we defined this 3Dprinted waveguide project with the requirement of diverse development tasks integral to the projectthat had to be addressed early in the course. Two project teams of four students each were tasked withdesigning, producing, and characterizing a minimum of six 3D printed functional waveguide components(coax adapter, waveguide, horn antenna) with an overall cost no greater than 20% of an off the shelfcomponent. WR90 waveguides (8.2 – 12.4GHz) were selected because we had components on hand inour research labs for purposes of quantitative performance

Conference Session

Manufacturing Workforce Development

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenifer Blacklock, University of Colorado Boulder; Greg Vanderbeek, University of Colorado Boulder

DimensioningGeometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) is a powerful tool for designing andmanufacturing products. If used correctly, GD&T can streamline and optimize the manufacturingof products, saving companies a tremendous amount of time and money. In trade schools, GD&Tis traditionally taught in the machine shop in parallel to learning equipment in the machine shop.At the university level, traditional engineering curriculum conventionally teaches GD&T indesign courses, many times without the use of the machine shop or understanding of the machineshop equipment capabilities. Students at universities tend to struggle with grasping GD&Tconcepts if ‘hands-on’ assignments or projects are not designed to reinforce concepts learned inthe

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - WIPS 3: Identity & Belonging

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Courtney D. Giles, University of Vermont

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

experience courses for undergraduate students have long been associated withimproved retention and graduation rates in STEM fields [1],[2],[3]. Although examples of FYS existin specific engineering disciplines and combinations of engineering disciplines [4], [5], [6], there arerelatively few examples of first year, project-based courses that integrate engineering,mathematics, statistics, computer science, and physics majors [7]. The one-credit FYS describedin this study was developed in Fall 2020 as a required, common learning experience for first-time-first year (FTFY) students majoring in engineering (Civil, Environmental, Biomedical,Electrical, Mechanical, Engineering, and Engineering Management), Computer Science, DataScience, Statistics

Conference Session

Best in DEED

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Andrew Olewnik, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

, and problem solving discourse among students, faculty, and practitioners. Dr. Olewnik is also the Director of Experiential Learning for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.Dr. Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a learning scientist and associate professor at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information and Learning Sciences program and in the Chemical and Biological En- gineering 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 Revolutionizing Engineering Departments project. She was selected as a National Academy of Educa

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martina Margaret Moyne, University College Dublin; Maxwell Herman, Harvard University; Conor Walsh P.E., Harvard University; Donal Padraic Holland, University College Dublin

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Engineering Design Pedagogy ResearchAbstractProject-based design classes are increasingly common in undergraduate engineeringprograms. Nevertheless, there is a paucity of guidelines to support the development,implementation and efficacy evaluation of such new courses. Engineering design projectsfrequently serve as experiential learning activities for students to appropriately apply amethodical design process to specific design contexts. However, it is challenging forinstructors to ensure that students achieve the intended learning objectives within project-based design classes. It is also difficult for researchers to directly compare design processesfollowed by students within different learning environments. These challenges are partly dueto

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jamie Phillips, University of Michigan; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan; Khalil Najafi, University of Michigan; Lisa R. Lattuca, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching in Engineering at U-M in 2003 and served as its Director for 12 years. Prior to joining U-M, Dr. Finelli was the Richard L. Terrell Professor of Excellence in Teaching, founding director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and associate professor of electrical engineering at Kettering University. Dr. Finelli’s current research interests include student resistance to active learning, faculty adoption of evidence-based teaching practices, the use of technology and innovative pedagogies on student learning and success, and the impact of a flexible classroom space on faculty teaching and student learning. She also led a project to develop a taxonomy

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula III

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado at Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

and it is project-based. At the University of Colorado, students have an opportunityto take a first-year 3-credit projects course5,6, although this course isn’t required across allmajors. In addition, students are often enrolled in project sections that are not at all related to themajor they are interested in, so keeping the 1-credit courses for major-specific information isimportant. Regardless of the form, first-year courses are generally found to be criticalopportunities to engage students and help retain them in engineering.In Fall 2006, the 1-credit Introduction to Environmental Engineering (EVEN) course wassignificantly revised. The goals were two-fold: (1) increase the ability of the course to recruitand retain students in the EVEN

Conference Session

Professional Skills and the Workplace

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Ferguson, Illinois Institute of Technology; Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology; Carolyn Wood, Illinois Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

AC 2008-1756: EVALUATING THE EFFECT OF RE-DEFINITION OF LEARNINGOBJECTIVES ON INTER-MEASURE CORRELATION AND VALIDITYDaniel Ferguson, Illinois Institute of Technology Daniel M. Ferguson, MBA, MSIE, is a Senior Lecturer in the IIT Stuart School of Business, and Associate Director for Research and Operations of the Interprofessional (IPRO) program. He was brought in specifically to focus on IPRO courses, and has led over 50 IPRO project teams in the past four years. He has an undergraduate degree in liberal arts and mechnical engineering, and graduate degrees in Business and Industrial Engineering. For over 20 years he led consulting businesses specializing in financial and information process

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank Kragh; Jeffrey Reed; Carl Dietrich; Donna Miller

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

systemsengineering methodologies, design architecture, and hardware issues. The SoftwareCommunications Architecture (SCA), a military SDR design standard, is used as anillustrative example of smart systems engineering through establishment of a well-definedarchitecture. Software topics include software architectures, object oriented programming,the SCA and other relevant software standards, multi-rate signal processing, and softwareengineering. Hardware topics include the radio frequency front end, analog-to-digital anddigital-to-analog converters, microprocessors, digital signal processors, and fieldprogrammable gate arrays. Hands-on SDR laboratories undergird project-based learning.Laboratories include development of SCA-based modular signal processing

Conference Session

Applying What We Teach to IE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence Whitman, Wichita State University; Janet Twomey, Wichita State University; Barbara Chaparro, Wichita State University; Veronica Hinkle, Wichita State University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

factory can impactthe environment. Understanding these cause-and-effect relationships is key to evaluating anddesigning a production system. This paper presents a short overview of a simulation-basedproject useful for Production Systems/Operations Management courses. The simulation isflexible to cover basic course content as well as recent industry trends involving sustainabilityissues and the lean enterprise. It proves challenging for instructors to present these topics in aconvincing manner to students, because many of these concepts, such as one-piece flow andreusable containers, are counterintuitive to traditional manufacturing logic. This paper presentsthe project itself, describes the application of modern production systems and the

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Cases and Models

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Arion, Carthage College; Matt Wagner, Center for Advanced Technology and Innovation; Clifton Kussmaul, Muhlenberg College

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Alliance (NCIIA). Part of this expansion involves a web-based system including asearchable database and document management system containing over 300 industrial patentsavailable for licensing. The system enables faculty and students to request and receiveauthorization to pursue projects using specific IP. It also enables them to contribute and searchstudent project documents such as marketing studies, financial models, and design documentsthat could be utilized by other students and student teams, or by entrepreneurs under appropriatelicenses. This expansion also includes a user manual for student teams, and workshops to helpfaculty at other institutions integrate InovaED into their courses. The InovaED model anddatabase are now being used by

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Geraldine B. Milano; Richard Parker; George Pincus

besuccessful in their studies. Involving the students in their learning process through enhanced active learningmethods has resulted in improved interest and participation in their engineering education. A change in curriculum has introduced a new course into the freshman year, Fundamentals ofEngineering Design, FED 101. The course introduces the new engineering student at NJIT to the variousengineering disciplines and the design process that engineers experience in industry. The course is taughtby a team of professors representing the various traditional engineering departments who direct projectsrelated to their areas of expertise. Freshman students work through these projects in teams of three or fourwith an emphasis on active learning

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark A. Pagano; Christine L. Corum

. The North Central Assessment Committee, as the school level committee is known, hasmet regularly throughout the school year.An important ongoing effort of this committee has been to facilitate communication betweendepartments and share information about assessment or other improvement projects beingdeveloped. For example, the MET representative has provided the school committee with a copyof a planning calendar and an example of a learning outcome model (see Specific DepartmentEfforts below). Each department should be able to learn from the success or failures of the otherdepartments. This committee serves as a vehicle for this exchange of information. Oneadditional project that the committee has undertaken is to revise a school wide survey

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank Liou, University of Missouri-Rolla

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

other partneringinstitutions to enhance the program are discussed. Also included in this paper are themajor curriculum development and outreach activities, including an interdisciplinarycapstone design project to provide opportunities for students to design, manufacture, andactually market a product, which can stimulate students’ interest in real-world productrealization, the summer manufacturing workshop for high-school teachers and students,and research programs to develop laboratory facilities and support graduate programs.IntroductionTo live well, a nation must produce well. U.S. manufacturing is a critical area that cannotafford to be lost, but it is facing a great challenge. When the industry’s manufacturingjobs are out-sourced

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado-Boulder; Diana Shannon, University of Colorado-Denver; Jay Shah, University of Colorado-Boulder; R. Scott Summers, University of Colorado-Boulder; Jim Ruttenber, University of Colorado

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

through an emphasis on their application in developingcommunities worldwide. The course emphasizes sustainable approaches for improving publichealth and the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration between practitioners of publichealth, the environmental sciences, and engineering. The course was piloted for the first time inSpring 2005 to eight graduate students. Semester-long team projects were associated withexisting Engineers Without Borders (EWB) - CU projects in Peru, Mali, and Rwanda. Thestudents identified the major health problems in the community, indicated engineering solutionsthat would improve these, and prioritized the health problems and solutions with regards to costsand benefits. Feedback from the students and instructors was

Conference Session

Curriculum for Green Materials

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzanne Keilson, Loyola College in Maryland; robert pond, Loyola College; william karasz, Loyola College; kyle bates, Loyola College; ryan christopher, Loyola College

Tagged Divisions

Materials

Automotive Lighting SystemsThis paper is a summary and demonstration of an innovative senior design project. Theprimary impetus for this project was to reduce the Cu content in recycled steel fromautomobiles. Although recycling steel from automobiles is a large business and growingglobally, there is little incentive to separate out the copper wiring before recycling theautomotive chassis. The slow but inevitable increase in copper content with eachgeneration of recycled steel can lead to too much variability in the mechanical andwelding properties of the steel.The project team decided to focus on redesigning the electrical power distribution systemto allow for easy retrieval of the copper. Three senior students at Loyola College inMaryland worked as

Conference Session

Research in Faculty Development

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cara Margherio, University of Washington; Kerice Doten-Snitker, University of Washington; Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Ella Lee Ingram, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Faculty Development Constituency Committee

Paper ID #21662Forming Strategic Partnerships: New Results from the Revolutionizing Engi-neering and Computer Science Departments Participatory Action ResearchDr. Cara Margherio, University of Washington Cara Margherio is Senior Research Associate at the UW Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE). Cara serves as project manager for program evaluation on several NSF- and NIH-funded projects focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion within STEM higher education. Her research interests include community cultural wealth, counterspaces, faculty development, peer mentoring, and institutional change.Kerice

Conference Session

Assessment of Student Learning – New Engineering Educators Division

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hani Serhal Saad, Eastern Washington University

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New Engineering Educators

-changes cases. The final project is an extensivereport on a fictitious experiment the students have designed and supposedlyexecuted. The idea is not to have them execute the experiment, but write effectivelyabout it. Grading is done without the grader knowing whether the student is from aclass where these changes were implemented or not. The assessment was doneusing six criteria that include: (a) document structure (b) objectives and conclusion,(c) grammar and spelling, (d) quality of writing, (e) depth of analysis and (f)scientific integrity. The results obtained show increases of 8% for categories (a),(c) and (d) , 14% for category (b), 7% for category (f) and a decrease of 3% forcategory (e). These results suggest that the changes implemented

Conference Session

Division for Experimentation & Lab-oriented Studies Technical Session 5

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Renee M. Clark, University of Pittsburgh; Arash Mahboobin, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

professional activity. In line with this, prompting students to reflect ontheir problem solving is a means of scaffolding them to solve complex problems. In the presentwork, we continue our ongoing study of scaffolding students in completing open-endedbioengineering laboratory projects, but with a focus on students’ reflections on the experiencesgained during the scaffolding. These open-ended projects involved conducting virtualexperiments using MATLAB to analyze unknown systems using time and frequency-domainanalysis techniques. The systems were both biological (e.g., human balance simulation) as wellas non-biological. Students’ experiences included decomposition of the problem, in-class activelearning with instructor guidance and interaction