Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramakrishnan Sundaram, Gannon University; Benjamin Lubina, Gannon University

Paper ID #36672Work-in-Progress: Introductory Reinforcement Learning forStudent Education and Curriculum Development ThroughEngaging MediumsRamakrishnan Sundaram (Professor)Benjamin Lubina © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Work-in-Progress: Introductory Reinforcement Learning for Student Education and Curriculum Development Through Engaging EnvironmentsIntroduction This paper describes the setup of a reinforcement learning project intended to supportstudent research and curriculum development within the rapidly emerging fields of

Conference Session

NEE Technical Session - Assessment/Evaluation

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Altmann, Virginia Military Institute; Jon-michael Hardin, Virginia Military Institute

(SAE) team. The purpose of the course is to: 1) provide students with access to a faculty mentorthat can provide automotive engineering expertise, 2) compensate students participating on theteam with GPA hours, and 3) motivate students to participate on a competition team early intheir academic career. Throughout the semester, students are educated on common design,analysis, and testing procedures used to build the Baja SAE car. In addition, connectionsbetween the theory and homework assignments students are currently completing in their courses(e.g., Statics, Solid Mechanics, Instrumentation, Dynamics, and Machine Design) and thephysical application of the material in a hands-on project are made. Presently, the integration ofthis course into

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WIED: Analysis, Challenges, Success, and Impacts

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Coleen Carrigan, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Liesl Folks, The University of Arizona; LAURENE TUMIEL BERHALTER, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Nancy Schiller, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

-based pedagogies in STEM education. Her Master's in Library Science is from ColumbiaUniversity. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Overcome Gender Discrimination in STEM Using the Case Study MethodIntroductionThe NAVIGATE Project, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), is a collaborationbetween scholars at the University at Buffalo, University of Arizona and California PolytechnicState University, San Luis Obispo that aims to increase the number of women in science,technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) who persist in their chosen disciplines andachieve leadership roles.NAVIGATE uses the

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibrahim F. Zeid, Northeastern University; Jennifer Ocif Love, Northeastern University; Claire Duggan, Northeastern University

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Diversity

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Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

meetings with mentors; extensiveprofessional development seminars; formal research training including daily reflection journals,poster presentations and technical writing with a faculty member. REU students completed twodeliverables: a research project and an open-ended Arduino engineering design project. Initially,students chose their research projects from a list of available opportunities. Once a match wassecured, students worked in their research labs daily with their graduate student and facultymentors.A list of students’ engineering research projects included:1. Accelerating Operations on Graph Neural Network2. Computational Design of Single Atom Catalysts for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction3. Information Theory to Pinpoint Causal Links

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shasta Ihorn, San Francisco State University; Anagha Kulkarni, San Francisco State University; Michael Savvides, San Francisco State University; Ilmi Yoon

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

diversity.4 The program consists of five classes,unique to the minor, that span across two academic years (4 semesters) and relies on the use ofcohort-based program structure, near-peer mentoring, and project-driven learning. The cohortstructure allows for close relationships to form, combatting the social isolation that historicallymarginalized students may feel in CS classes. Peer mentoring benefits students by offeringfurther academic, social, and professional development support within the program. Project-based learning provides strong ties to students’ major area(s) of study (primarily biology andbiochemistry) and supports students’ future success in fields that are becoming increasingly data-driven.1 Finally, the minor program courses focus

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Wosczyna-Birch, National Center for Next Generation Manufacturing

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Mentoring to Support Community Colleges through the NSF ATE Proposal Submission ProcessThe “Mentor Up: Supporting Preparation of Competitive Proposals to Improve Education of theSkilled Technical Workforce” project (Mentor Up), funded by the National Science FoundationAdvanced Technological Education (NSF ATE) program (DUE#2032835), provides a mentoringprogram for community college teams submitting NSF ATE grant proposals. This project alignswith the NSF ATE program objective to provide leadership opportunities for faculty at two-yearinstitutions and supports the national priority of educating the skilled technical workforce for theindustries that keep the United

Conference Session

Continuing Professional Development Division (CPD) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Iftekhar Ibne Basith, Sam Houston State University; Ulan Dakeev, Sam Houston State University; Vajih Khan, Sam Houston State University; Sumith Yesudasan, Sam Houston State University; Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Suleiman M Obeidat, Sam Houston State University; Euijin Yang; Christopher J. Rabe

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Diversity

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Continuing Professional Development Division (CPD)

professional developmentand trying to quickly educate their workforce to adopt Agile as an underlying approach to their overalldigital transformation projects. Agile workshops and certifications for professional development take onvarious forms. Professionals with no exposure to Agile are exposed to workshops to immerse themselvesin the values, principles, and practices, with the goal to quickly gaining skills to be part of effective Agileteams, conversant in terminology, approach, and digital lifecycle. In the core Agile sessions, thefundamentals of Agile history, mindset, values, principles, and practices are taught to the attendees. Theyare exposed to case scenarios allowing them to learn various roles and apply Agile to digital developmentto in

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Diane L Peters P.E., Kettering University; Ronald E Kumon, Kettering University; Gabrielle Feeny

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

, a midwestern STEM-focusedinstitution, received an internal grant to develop a class in research for undergraduates. Thisclass, which is designed to be offered online either for cohorts or for individual students as anindependent study, contains information and resources on a diverse range of issues such asmotivation for research, research ethics, planning a research project, conducting literaturesearches, experimental procedures, keeping lab documentation for various types of projects, dataanalysis, technical writing, intellectual property, and issues relevant to scoping out one’s ownresearch project.This paper will give the background for the course development, evaluation of the requiredcontent and decisions on structure and format, and

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Salvador Mayoral, California State University, Fullerton; Antoinette Sherrise Linton, California State University, Fullerton; Hassan Yousefi, California State University, Fullerton; Jidong Huang, California State University, Fullerton

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Mathematics

, first-year engineering students take on a semester-long design projectthat grounds engineering design as an epistemic practice. The project is designed to motivatestudents to creatively and collaboratively apply mathematical modeling to design roller coasters.Students are asked to engage as engineers and respond to a hypothetical theme park that hassolicited design proposals for a new roller coaster. Students are required to use variousmathematical functions such as polynomials and exponentials to create a piecewise function thatmodels the roller coaster track geometry. The entire project is composed of five modules, eachlasting three weeks. Each module is associated with a specific calculus topic and is integratedinto the design process in the

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2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Audrey LaVallie; Eakalak Khan; G. Padmanabhan

ASEE-NMWSC2013-0004 Impact of a Research Experience Program on North Dakota Tribal College STEM Student Retention Audrey LaVallie1, Eakalak Khan2, and G. Padmanabhan2 1 Faculty, Turtle Mountain Community College, Belcourt, North Dakota (e-mail: alavallie@tm.edu) 2 Professor of Civil Engineering, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota (e-mails: Eakalak.khan@ndsu.edu and g.padmanabhan@ndsu.edu respectively)Abstract Recent educational research shows that students who engage in research projects aremore likely to

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2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

J. E. Johnson; L. Stradins; S Springer; R. Asthana

theestate of Fulton and Edna Holtby. The goal was to promote professional activities of students,faculty, and staff in areas of research, scholarship, course development and professionaldevelopment by providing funds for stipend, travel, buyout for release time and purchase ofequipment, services and supplies. These funds were to be used to offer undergraduate andgraduate students opportunity to explore special topics outside of their formal coursework thatinspired their creativity and imagination through additional research and exploration and earncollege credit for their work. As structured coursework rarely offers extended, stress-freeenvironment conducive to learning and exploration, ideas were developed for student projects toprovide laboratory

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Kathleen Meehan, University of Glasgow; Bonnie H. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; Aldo A. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; Deborah Walter, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

. Deborah Walter is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She teaches courses in circuits, electromagnetics, and medical imaging. Before joining academia in 2006, she was at the Computed Tomography Laboratory at GE’s Global Research Center for 8 years. She worked on several technology development projects in the area of X-ray CT for medical and industrial imaging. She is a named inventor on 9 patents. She has been active in the recruitment and retention of women and minorities in engineering and currently PI for an NSF-STEM grant to improve diversity at Rose-Hulman. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017

Conference Session

T2C: GIFTS - Session C

Collection

2019 FYEE Conference

Authors

Chizhong Wang, NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECH; Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ashish D Borgaonkar, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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FYEE Conference - Paper Submission

in the first year engineering, civil engineering, and mechanical engineering departments and won multiple awards for excellence in instruction. He also has worked on several re- search projects, programs and initiatives to help students bridge the gap between high school and college as well as preparing students for the rigors of mathematics. His research interests include engineering education, excellence in instruction, water and wastewater treatment, civil engineering infrastructure, and transportation engineering. 2019 FYEE Conference : Penn State University , Pennsylvania Jul 28 GIFTS – Utilizing MATLAB’s Online Tutorial in First-Year Engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Rogers, Ohio State University; Denny C. Davis, Ohio State University; Bashirah Ibrahim, Ohio State University; Lin Ding, Ohio State University; Kaycee Ash, Ohio State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

. She joined the research team in December of 2015 and is currently working on assessing motivation in academia. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Providing Student and Faculty Feedback from Motivation Assessments in Capstone CoursesAbstractStudent motivation in capstone design courses is assessed in six capstone project courses at sixdiverse institutions in the 2017-2018 academic year. This assessment follows a similarassessment study at a large public university in six unique capstone courses. Reliability andvalidity analysis during the first year contributed to upgrades to the assessment tools currentlybeing implemented. Qualitative feedback from student and

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yusuf A Mehta, Rowan University; Ayman Ali, Rowan University; Parth Bhavsar, Rowan University; Seri Park, Villanova University; Kakan C. Dey, West Virginia University

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

at Rowan University. His research interests include Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), Connected, Autonomous, and connected-automated Vehicle Technologies, Transportation Data Analytics, and Alter- native Fuel Vehicles. Dr. Bhavsar has published in peer reviewed journals such as the Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technology, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and the Environment and Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board. Dr. Bhavsar was pre- viously a postdoctoral fellow in a connected vehicle research program in the Glenn Department of Civil Engineering at Clemson University, where he worked on several connected vehicle technology research projects

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2019 CIEC

Authors

Paul McPherson; Margaret Phillips; Kyle Reiter

challenge and developed a curriculum that provides amultitude of projects for which students must utilize technical standards. The followingdiscussion highlights two such experiences, as well as, methods for incorporating standards intothe classroom. Additionally, the authors share examples of products that students develop todemonstrate their standards competence, resources that are available to other educators andindustry members to teach students or new hires about technical standards, and make a call toindustry to support the standards education efforts of local educators to ensure students areadequately prepared prior to entering the workforce. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration

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Innovations in Computer Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xuemin Chen, Texas Southern University; David Olowokere, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Graham Thomas, Texas Southern University

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Engineering Technology

on screen a graphical overview of a project structure in the form of a UML(Unified Modeling Language) like class diagram as shown in Figure 1. It then allows theinteractive creation of objects from any given class in a software project. Once an object hasbeen created, it becomes visible to the user and any of its public methods can be interactivelyinvoked by selecting it from a pop-up menu. Parameters and method results are entered andpresented through dialogue windows. In particular, using the Inspect option of the pop-up menuassociated with objects, students can directly see the values of the fields of an object. This allowsthem to immediately see the effect of a method invocation on that object and also simplifies thedebugging process.The

Conference Session

Educational Outreach Efforts Led by the US Navy

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Barkyoumb, NSWC Carderock Division; Steven Ouimette, NSWC Carderock Division

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Ocean and Marine

tricky business. A dynamic intern program is a great aid to these goals.The Carderock Division strategically uses the visiting faculty and intern program sponsored bythe Office of Naval Research to achieve these goals. Furthermore, our approach is to involvethe interns in ongoing projects supported by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) or otherNavy Sponsors for research, acquisition or fleet support (generally this means NAVSEA andthe Program Executive Offices) that explicitly includes mentoring of the student interns byscientists and engineers from within the Division.The Office of Naval Research started the Naval Research Enterprise Intern Program in thesummer of 2002. The programmatic details can be found at the website of the AmericanSociety

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Don Dekker, University of South Florida; Stephen Sundarrao, University of South Florida; Rajiv Dubey, University of South Florida

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Design in Engineering Education

Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Capstone Design Courses: Content RecognitionIntroduction:The Capstone Design course at The University of South Florida brings realistic designexperiences into the academic environment. The course is completed in each of the two 15 weeksemesters. The students do all of the design phases: define the project, conceptual design,embodiment design and detail design, plus other experiences, such as report writing, makingdrawings, and presentation skills. In addition, the students read and discuss two engineeringethics case studies, are instructed in Pro-Engineer, and have lectures on several pertinent topics,such as patents and licensing, entrepreneurship, professionalism, and safety. The

Conference Session

LabVIEW and Mindstorms Based Experiments

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2008 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

principles through active hypothesis testing and discovery.Engineering laboratory courses use active learning. 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. A large body of engineering education research describes the use ofLEGO brick8. Most examples use LEGO Mindstorms RCX with the Robolab programmingenvironment (RIS 2.0) based on National Instruments LabVIEW software for various projectsand courses like robot competitions9, 10, programming11, 12, and project-based

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anbu Elancheziyan, Drexel University; Jaudelice de Oliveira, Drexel University; Fernand Cohen, Drexel University; Fredricka Reisman, Drexel University

this paper, we detail the ongoing efforts at Drexel University, aimed at adapting the successesof previous experiences in teaching sensor networks at the undergraduate level1-6, to create a newlaboratory-based undergraduate course in sensor networks, and to make extensive use of the newlaboratory’s modular experiments in other courses and disciplines. The project is funded by NSFCCLI program of the Division of Undergraduate Education.Sensor networks as a pedagogical toolWe believe that sensor network experiments can be very pedagogical in illustrating manyabstract concepts in other courses/disciplines. For example, medium access and routing protocolscan be used in undergraduate networking sequence courses; basics of radio communication

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Christine Kelly, Oregon State University

in industry. The objectives of thisresearch are to explore the types of cognition and social interactions of student teams as theyengage in these virtual laboratories, to determine the role of instructional design in the responseof student teams, and to ascertain whether virtual laboratories can effectively promote types oflearning that are difficult or impossible to achieve from physical laboratories.Objectives The specific objectives of the NSF CCLI Phase 2 project are to: 1. Create the following learning materials and teaching strategies based on virtual laboratories: A. Enhance the Virtual CVD laboratory by including interactive reflection tools (e.g., interactive lab notebook, a virtual supervisor), improved

Conference Session

Curriculum in Civil Engineering Technology

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Cottrell, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Chung-Suk Cho, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Engineering Technology

construction planning, scheduling, estimating, and management.Chung-Suk Cho, University of North Carolina, Charlotte DR. CHUNG-SUK CHO is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Department of Engineering Technology. His teaching and research focus on project scope definition, pre-project planning, sustainable construction, project administration, construction safety, construction simulation, and project management. He has prior teaching experience at North Carolina A&T State University in construction management and working experience with Fluor Corporation as a project manager

Conference Session

Building Diversity in Engineering Graduate Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaoqing Qian, Alabama A&M University; Zhengtao Deng, Alabama A&M University; George Seweryniak, DoE Computational Science Division; Debbie McCoy, Oak Ridge National Lab

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Minorities in Engineering

AC 2009-1964: RESEARCH ALLIANCE IN MATH AND SCIENCE (RAMS): ANEXCELLENT RESEARCH INTERNSHIP PROGRAM FOR MINORITY SCIENCEAND ENGINEERING STUDENTSXiaoqing Qian, Alabama A&M University Dr. Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of Alabama A&M University. Dr. Qian is also Director of High Performance Computing Research and Education project at Alabama A&M University.Zhengtao Deng, Alabama A&M University Dr. Z.T. Deng is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of Alabama A&M University.George Seweryniak, DoE Computational Science Division Dr. George Seweryniak is a program manager in the Office of Advanced Scientific

Conference Session

Sustainable Education and the Environment

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine Scott, Seattle Pacific University; John Lindberg, Seattle Pacific University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

developing countries to participate in this program to bring critical skills back to theirnative countries. Finally, as our own resources become limited in this country, the need forengineers to address issues related to sustainability will grow, and students from this programwill be well equipped to address this challenge here in the U.S. This program joins a growingnumber of program addressing sustainability and appropriate technology issues (e.g., theEngineering for Developing Communities program at Univ. of Colorado, Boulder.2)This paper is focused on development of the program’s learning outcomes, the resultingcurriculum development, the use of project-based courses, and program assessment.Program Learning OutcomesThe program learning outcomes

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Innovation, International Cooperation, and Social Entrepreneurship

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nassif Rayess, University of Detroit, Mercy; Darrell Kleinke, University of Detroit, Mercy

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

, followed by two projects that serve as case studies. The experience is thenbriefly evaluated and preliminary assessment is presented. The paper concludes with adiscussion on the future plans.Service Learning and Social EntrepreneurshipDefined as “a form of experiential education in which students engage in activities that addresshuman and community needs together with structured opportunities intentionally designed to Page 14.618.2promote student learning and development”1, service learning is not only beneficial to the overalldevelopment of the student but also addresses the hard-to-assess qualitative educationaloutcomes f and h of ABET2. For the

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Information Literacy Integration and Assessment

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara MacAlpine, Trinity University; Mahbub Uddin, Trinity University

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Engineering Libraries

Science in EngineeringScience degree. Engineering students are also awarded a mathematics minor.The multidisciplinary core engineering science courses emphasize critical and creative thinkingand the development of student’s communication skills. Engineering design, specifically Page 14.760.2creative design, is the central focus of the program. An eight-semester design course sequencethat begins in the first semester of the freshman year and terminates with a two-semester seniorcapstone design project forms the backbone of the curriculum.The first design course introduces students to the engineering design process utilizing acompetitive design

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher G. Braun

Session 2532 An Electronics Prototyping Facility for Undergraduate Electronics Laboratories Christopher G. Braun Colorado School of MinesIntroduction - Why an Electronics Prototyping Facility Most electronic laboratory projects require building simple circuits that are tornapart as soon as the lab is over -- resulting in a limited opportunity for the students toconstruct anything useful. Students are often frustrated in electronics courses andlaboratories as they never quite get to the level where they can design and build

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Judith E. Miller; James E. Groccia; David DiBiasio

has been the successful implementation of a heavily project-based curriculum. The recent reclassification (by the Carnegie Foundation) of the Institute as a comprehensive university indicates that its doctoral programs have developed to a significant degree. However, until the initiation of the project described in this paper, the school did not provide any opportunities for fiture faculty to learn about teaching. This meant that Ph.D. graduates fi-om WPI hwo pursued academic careers, had no teaching preparation and probably had little knowledge of the strengths of our undergraduate program. Objectives It was our intent to address the general and local problems outlined above by developing

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

David B. Beyer

. A solid core of mathematics and science, development of oral andwritten communications skills, social science, and humanities are incorporated into the program.ProcedureThis curriculum will be implemented in a project-centered approach, in a facility best describedas a studio environment. There is to be no differentiation between lecture, recitation, andlaboratory. Projects and activities will be the vehicle of instruction as opposed to the standardlecture and separate laboratory. All activities associated with a course will be conducted in thesame room. The room will have computer terminals and equipment available for anyconstruction or assembly required for projects. The core technical support topics of mathematics,science, and