Conference Session

Track: Collegiate - Technical Session 6

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Julian Viera Jr., University of Texas, El Paso; Elsa Q. Villa, University of Texas, El Paso; Christina Convertino; Erika Mein, University of Texas, El Paso; Sarah Hug, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Collegiate, Diversity

a growing number ofminority undergraduate students who are unable to continue their STEM studies because of theirinability to pass pre-calculus, the gateway to calculus, which is a requirement for all STEMmajors. This paper presents preliminary findings from a project funded by the U.S. Departmentof Education to increase the number and proportion of Latinx, particularly Latinas, whosuccessfully complete pre-calculus and persist to completion of a STEM degree. The focus ofthis project is a 5-hour, pre-calculus course at a public, 4-year institution, consisting of fourhours of classroom lecture and two hours of workshop facilitated by learning assistants (LAs).To increase the success rate of students in pre-calculus, the project aims to

Conference Session

New Developments in ECE

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Son Nguyen, University of California, Davis; Andre Knoesen, University of California, Davis; Hooman Rashtian, University of California, Davis

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Electrical and Computer

the Optical Society of America.Dr. Hooman Rashtian, University of California, Davis Hooman Rashtian received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada in 2013. He was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Davis Millimeter- Wave Research Center (DMRC) at University of California, Davis from 2014 to 2016. Since July 2016, he has joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Davis as a Lecturer with Potential for Security of Employment (LPSOE). His educational research interests include curriculum innovation for teaching circuits, electronics and control systems, project-based learning, and the use of

Conference Session

Sustainability and Engineering Courses

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Reisdorph, the GreenTeam Inc.

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Environmental Engineering

establishsustainability definitions, guides, and processes. For example, ASTM E 2432-05 StandardGuide for General Principles of Sustainability Relative to Buildings provides direction on how toincorporate sustainability into the design, construction and operation of buildings and would be arelevant standard to guide engineering student capstone projects related to buildings. ASTMInternational has assembled its standards with sustainability aspects relative to buildings into acompendium to more readily encourage incorporation into building design, construction andoperation.5 Designers of building products would likely reference and use as a guide ISO21930:2007 Sustainability in building construction – Environmental declaration of building

Conference Session

Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay Porter, Texas A&M University; Joseph Morgan, Texas A&M University; Richard Scruggs, Texas A&M University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

and Industrial Distribution Department in 1989 and has served as the Program Director of the Electronics and Telecommunications Programs and as the Associate Department Head for Operations. He received his BS degree in electrical engineering (1975) from California State University, Sacramento, and his MS (1980) and DE (1983) degrees in industrial engineering from Texas A&M University. His education and research interests include project management, innovation and entrepreneurship, and embedded product/system development.Richard Scruggs, Texas A&M University Richard M. Scruggs is the director of Mays Business School's Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship at Texas A&M

Conference Session

Engineering Economy -- The Introductory Course

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Hartman, University of Florida

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Engineering Economy

of tactics in order to be efficient with my large class, as well as trying to promote alearning environment. From that information, I found the following to be most useful whenteaching the large class: • Detailed syllabus: The entire course was laid out on the syllabus, including daily lectures, dates of exams, and project due dates. This is clearly the benefit of having taught the course numerous times. It helped alleviate problems with absences before they were to occur (i.e., student travel for job interviews). • Homework: Homework was assigned weekly. From this set of problems, a subset was collected and a further subset (often only one problem) was graded (and the others were merely checked to

Conference Session

Improving ME Education: Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Knudson, Oregon State University; John Schmitt, Oregon State University

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2007-1918: MENTOR GRAPHICS’ SYSTEMVISION SOFTWARECURRICULUM INTEGRATIONMatthew Knudson, Oregon State University Matt Knudson is a second-year graduate student at Oregon State University. He received his B.S. in Electronics Engineering in 2005 from OSU and is currently working on his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a graduate minor in Computer Science. His research is in advanced system dynamics and intelligent control systems. Matt has designed and executed computer aided design projects for four academic terms of introductory system dynamics and control and is scheduled to teach introductory mechatronics Spring of 2007 at OSU. Matt currently mentors two senior design teams, one

Conference Session

Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Experiments and Labs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nebojsa Jaksic, Colorado State University-Pueblo; Dawn Spencer, Colorado State University-Pueblo

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Page 12.229.2and all produce similar results, an organized project type where the instructions are not preciseand allow for some creativity, an open-ended project type where the course instructor has areasonable knowledge of the final outcome, or research where neither the students nor theinstructor know the final outcome of the experiments. Often, open-ended projects are used aspowerful pedagogical tools for discovery-based learning. To minimize the time to buildprototypes and to minimize the cost of such projects by using low-cost plastic parts andenforcing reusability of parts, many instructors adopted LEGO bricks and LEGO computerizedsystems as educational tools. There are hundreds of papers describing the use of LEGO bricks inengineering

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Doug Sterk, Virginia Tech; Tim Thacker, Virginia Tech; Elizabeth Tranter, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff, Virginia Tech; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech

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Electrical and Computer

for Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation(LSAMP) Scholars at the Center for Power Electronic Systems (CPES) at Virginia Tech.The REU program “supports active research participation by undergraduate students in any ofthe areas of research funded by the National Science Foundation. REU projects involve studentsin meaningful ways in ongoing research programs or in research projects designed especially forthe purpose. […] Undergraduate student participants […] must be citizens or permanentresidents of the United States or its possessions.”1The CPES REU program seeks to: provide experiences, develop expertise in experimentallaboratory research among undergraduates prior to their senior year of undergraduate study, andto encourage

Conference Session

The Senior Experience: Capstone and Beyond

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Large Seagrave

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Civil Engineering

curriculum capstone courses in Civil and other engineering disciplines attempt tofulfill a host of objectives. Most notably, they incorporate design projects and teamwork tofulfill specific criteria of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET).They provide their students with an opportunity for synthesis, employing the technical skills theyhave learned in the program, and introducing elements of professional practice that will easetheir integration into industry after graduation.In order to meet the needs industry has for young engineers, many universities have incorporatedmock corporate environments and real-world clients into the capstone course. Besides familiaritywith a team work environment and real clients, preparation for

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca L. Damron, Oklahoma State University; Sohum A Sohoni, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; YoonJung Cho, Oklahoma State University; Kerri S Kearney, Oklahoma State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

set of digital tools including asoftware development environment (IDE), an instruction set architecture (ISA), a referencedesign in Verilog reflecting a contemporary CPU architecture, and Verilog modules for input-output interfacing. In addition to the software and hardware, PLP provides curricular materialslike tutorials, projects, and quizzes. All parts of the system are open-source and publicly hosted;a public mailing list serves as a communication channel between users and developers of thesystem. PLP’s strengths are its vertical integration and ability to connect fundamentals likeprogramming and compiling with the underlying hardware.With an overarching system like PLP, different aspects are taught and used in different courses,and

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David A Saftner, University of Minnesota Duluth; Sara D. Ojard, University of Minnesota Duluth; Eshan V. Dave, University of Minnesota, Duluth; Nathan William Johnson, University of Minnesota Duluth; Eil Kwon; Rebecca Teasley, Civil Engineering University of Minnesota Duluth

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Design in Engineering Education

a New ProgramABSTRACTThe University of Minnesota Duluth’s Department of Civil Engineering accepted its firststudents in 2008, graduated its first class in 2012, and first offered a capstone design course inthe spring semester, 2012. Groups of five to six students designed a building on a local site.Students organized their teams based on interest in a particular branch of civil engineering,allowing individual students to focus their efforts on a particular subject. Based on feedbackfrom faculty, practicing engineers, and students, several changes were implemented prior to thefall 2012 semester. These changes included making the group size smaller, modifying the gradedsubmissions, and changing the project location. Most significantly, the

Conference Session

Partnerships in IE Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Griffin; Paul Griffin; Donna Llewellyn

The Impact of Group Size and Course Lengthon a Capstone Design CoursePaul M. Griffin¹, Susan O. Griffin and Donna C. Llewellyn²¹School of Industrial and Systems Engineering²Center for Excellence in Teaching and LearningGeorgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta, GA 30332January 15, 2003AbstractIn the spring semester of 2003, the School of Industrial Engineering at Georgia Tech ranan experimental one-semester version of their capstone course, Senior Design. Thestandard version is two semesters in the length, and the purpose of the experiment was tocompare the marginal benefit of the second semester for the student (and project sponsor)to the cost of running the second semester in terms of faculty and sponsor resources. Inaddition, a survey was

Conference Session

Engineering / Education Collaborations

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Shooter; Micheal Hanyak; Matt Higgins; Marie Wagner; Ed Mastascusa; Dan Hyde; Brian Hoyt; Bill Snyder; Michael Prince

Session 3531 Engineering Engineering Education A Conceptual Framework for Supporting Faculty in Adopting Collaborative Learning Brian Hoyt, Michael Prince, Steve Shooter, Michael Hanyak, , E.J. Mastascusa, William Snyder, T. Michael Toole, Mathew Higgins, Daniel C. Hyde, Marie Wagner, Margot Vigeant Bucknell UniversityAbstractOver the last three years, nearly a quarter of Bucknell’s engineering faculty haveparticipated in Project Catalyst, a NSF funded project to promote systemic change

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Michael Klein; Matt Walker; Kevin Organ; Dan Gerbus

(IEW) at the University ofIdaho is formed of a diverse group of graduate students whose purpose is to develop anenvironment that fosters professional as well as technical excellence. This paper analyzes theactions taken each year by IEW leading to the formation of well-trained, collaborative, and highly-reflective cohort of graduate students that support design education. This team is developedthrough directed study courses, team projects, personal reflections and monumental technical andinterpersonal challenges. Since 1994, IEW has been successful in delivering hardware thatexceeds expectations of industry customers, shortening time frames required for large-scaledesign projects, enriching senior design mentoring, and expanding the number of

Conference Session

Energy, the Environment, and Nano Technology

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dhananjay Kumar, North Carolina A&T State University; Devdas M. Pai, North Carolina A&T State University; Kwadwo Mensah-Darkwa; Robin Guill Liles, North Carolina A&T State University; Mainul Kader Faruque, North Carolina A&T State University; Courtney Lambeth, North Carolina A&T State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

laboratories. These efforts have been primarily supported by two successive NSF NanoUndergraduate Education (NUE) projects. Our first activity for enhancing nanoscience andnanoengineering education was to introduce simple concepts of nanoscience and technology intoexisting required undergraduate engineering courses. These modules covered the core conceptsof nanomaterials and unique phenomena at the nanoscale. Introducing the concepts ofnanoscience and engineering at this early stage of undergraduate education was found topositively impact student interest in registering for a technical elective nanotechnology coursethat we developed as our second initiative. An interdisciplinary 3-credit nanotechnology course(Nanotechnology I) with a significant hands

Conference Session

Curriculum in Mechanical Engineering Technology: Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

B. Sridhara, Middle Tennessee State University

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Engineering Technology

-on project and an industrial visit. The student teams are required to design, build and test aHelmholtz resonator. A Helmholtz resonator, which can be modeled as a spring-mass system,consists of a body (cavity) and a neck whose dimensions can be selected to tune the resonator torespond at a desired natural frequency. In the fall of 2007 student teams as well as the authorbuilt resonators using steel and aluminum. We used a laptop computer and a freeware (software)to test the resonators. The testing included pressing the resonator neck opening against our lowerlip and quickly blowing once and simultaneously recording the time domain data. The freewarewas useful in recording the time domain data but the frequency response was not good because

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Clair Nixon

financial information ofthe aerospace industry and included analysis of specific aerospace projects. It wasassumed that the students had little to no prior exposure to basic business principles.Class exercises were used to determine the level of competency in applying thesebusiness principles to engineering problems. The design of the interview instrument usedin the Welliver Program was determined after the completion of this course and wasbased in part on the perceptions of the value of the information for these universitystudents. Further, multiple discussions were held with engineering and business faculty aswell as Boeing personnel prior to the final development of the interview instrument andthe start of the interview period. Over a

Conference Session

Research in Graphics Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Derek Yip-Hoi, Western Washington University

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Engineering Design Graphics

-ended individual projects where students get to select a mechanism to modeland analyze are presented. In addition an overview of the strategy adopted and experiences inconducting a collaborative team project for creating a complex mechanism will be discussed.This strategy enables a realistic model of an assembly with over 100 components to be modeled,simulated and analyzed within a 10 week term.The paper concludes with a discussion of observations made on how students benefit from theinstruction, assignments and project work in this advanced area of CAD. This includes theirability to assimilate and apply both the mechanics and strategies of advanced assembly modelingand the challenges faced in collaboratively creating large

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sanjay Raman

traditionalRF/microwave background). These tutorials will be discussed further below.The course fundamentally involves “hands-on” circuit design at the IC level; state-of-the-artcommercial RF/microwave CAD and layout software is used in conjunction with the course.The CAD environment will be discussed further below. The culmination of the course is amajor course design project involving the design and full-custom layout of a functionalblock/component RFIC for wireless communications applications. The project guidelines arepromulgated, and student design teams (typically 2-3 students per team) are assigned, ~10weeks into the semester; the projects are due at the end of the semester. Typically no finalexam is given, and the final design project report

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew L. Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Donald D. Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Robert W. Fletcher, Lawrence Technological University; Eric G. Meyer, Lawrence Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Page 24.288.1 http://www.ltu.edu/engineering/experimental biomechanics lab.asp Dr. Meyer directs the Experimental Biomechanics Laboratory (EBL) at LTU with the goal to advance ex- perimental biomechanics understanding. He developed and teaches a number of courses in the Biomedical c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Paper ID #10438Engineering program, including; Introduction to Biomechanics, Biomechanics Lab, Tissue Mechanics,Medical Imaging, Orthopedics, BME Best Practices, Intro to BME, and Fundamentals of EngineeringDesign Projects. Recently, the EBL has partnered with ME and EE faculty to

Conference Session

BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Waugaman; Brian Self

focused primarily on physiology, the second on electrical engineering topics, and thethird on mechanics issues. At the end of the course, teams of students completed a final projectwhich focused on some type of control system within an aerospace cockpit. The teams had tocreate working hardware that collected some type of physiologic signal that would indicate pilotstressors, then determine some action based on these signals. Examples of projects includecollecting electro-oculography to determine if a pilot is spatially disoriented, usingelectromyography and heart rate to predict G- induced loss of consciousness, and using thermalsensors to help control pilot stress and over heating. The course content attempted to provide thestudents with

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing and Integration

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Lobaugh

groups, once formed, go to the Champion’s industrial location for a tour to discussopportunities for improvement through lean practices. The groups follow the guidelines ofValue Stream Mapping1 to “map” the processes with the plant. The team then chooses one leanpractice within the plant to concentrate on, and analyzes the best methods for initiating changes.At the end of the course, each group presents their findings and turns in a written report coveringthe entire project. The “Champion” then has the opportunity to present the project paper to theirmanagement for review and possible implementation.Penn State Erie - The Behrend College is currently in the second year of teaching this course.Lean Manufacturing is offered only in the fall

Conference Session

Trends in Biological & Agricultural Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Lacey; Ann Kenimer

Session 2003-1240 Teaming Freshmen with Seniors in Design Ann Kenimer, Ronald Lacey Associate Professors, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M UniversityIntroductionThe Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Texas A&M University offersdesign-focused courses for freshman and senior engineering students. The senior-level coursesconstitute the curriculum’s capstone design experience. Seniors work in teams of four to five on adesign project suggested by industry clients. Many of these same projects are used in the freshman

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter E. Thain Jr.; Thomas Fallon

theoretical foundation intelecommunications.The five technical courses in the BSTCET degree are designed to teach students about suchtopics as communication protocols, wide- and local-area networks, managing network resources,Internet-related concepts and development, and network security issues. These courses aresupported by numerous hands-on laboratory experiences. The four management courses providestudents with the principles necessary to manage people and projects. This paper discusses issuesconsidered during the development of the program, classroom and laboratory curricula, problemsconfronting the program today, and assessment.I. IntroductionTremendous growth in the telecommunications industry has inspired a similar growth ineducation

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Ramers

Session 1346 An Undergraduate Research Experience in New Technology Commercialization of PEM Fuel Cells Doug Ramers University of North Carolina, CharlotteIn 1997, I was asked as a faculty member of Gonzaga University to participate on a project todevelop a commercializable polymer exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) technology forpower plants in the 1-10kw range. The project was managed, sponsored, and funded jointly byWashington Water Power (WWP) and the Spokane Intercollegiate Research and TechnologyInstitute (SIRTI). Our Gonzaga engineering team, which

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa A. Pruitt, University of California, Berkeley

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First-Year Programs

California at San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, 2001-present Adjunct Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, 2001- present Research is focused on structureproperty relationships in orthopedic tissues, biomaterials and medical polymers. Current projects include the assessment of fatigue fracture mechanisms and tribological per- formance of orthopedic biomaterials, as well as characterization of tissues and associated devices. Surface modifications using plasma chemistry are used to optimize polymers for medical applications. Attention is focused on wear, fatigue, fracture and multiaxial loading. Retrievals of orthopedic implants are char- acterized to model in vivo degradation and physiological loading

Conference Session

Capstone Courses and Design Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bobby G. Crawford, U.S. Military Academy

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Mechanical Engineering

American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Undergraduate Capstone Design: Inductively EnhancedAbstractThe Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy atWest Point, New York requires its graduates to complete an integrative, year-long capstonedesign during their senior year. One of the capstone projects available to the mechanicalengineering students in the department’s aerospace sub-discipline requires the design,construction, testing, and demonstration of a small, highly autonomous Uninhabited AerialVehicle (UAV) for a Department of Defense client. This particular project was added to the listof available capstone options in the fall of 2005

Conference Session

From Entrepreneurship Education to Market

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donte Harris, Southern Illinois university Edwardsville; Sohyung Cho, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; H. Felix Lee, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Kevin M. Hubbard, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Luis T. Youn, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Advanced Manufacturing (SIAM) Center at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. Hubbard has worked in the field of manu- facturing engineering for 20 years, and has conducted more than 120 research projects for manufacturing and technical enterprises across the United States.Dr. Luis T. Youn Page 25.418.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Developing a State-of-Art Supply Chain Test-bed for Engineering Education and Research Donte J Harris, Sohyung Cho, H. Felix Lee, Kevin Hubbard, and Luis Youn School

Conference Session

Mechanics Concepts II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sinead C. Mac Namara, Syracuse University

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Mechanics

AC 2012-4322: THE DESIGN COMPETITION AS A TOOL FOR TEACH-ING STATICSDr. Sinead C. Mac Namara, Syracuse University Page 25.1283.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 The Design Competition as a Tool for Teaching Statics.1. IntroductionThis paper describes ongoing efforts at Syracuse University to re-engineer the traditionalstatics course. This course forms part of a larger NSF funded project aimed at increasinginnovation and creativity in engineering curricula. The principal aim of the overallproject is to find strategies to foster and reward creativity in engineering students.This study examines a design

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeremy Koczenasz; Bradley Bashford; Anil Sawhney; Andre Mund

Session 3226 Internet-Based Interactive Construction Management Learning System Anil Sawhney, Jeremy Koczenasz, Brad Bashford, and André Mund Arizona State UniversityAbstractThe Del E. Webb School of Construction is currently involved in a three-year project aimed atenhancing the construction management education. The primary undertaking of this project—in itssecond year—is to incorporate practical content in the construction curricula thus bridging the gapbetween the classroom and the construction