Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Peer Mentoring

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Leila Keyvani Someh, Northeastern University; Brian Patrick O'Connell, Northeastern University; Kathryn Schulte Grahame, Northeastern University; Jake Levi, Northeastern University; Whitney Elise Hansberry; Vishrudan Swami

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First-Year Programs

Cornerstone course at Northeastern University, students are tasked with a team-based design project spanning over 2 courses in one semester that integrates hands-on design andprogramming. The resulting product from this course is a tangible product, designed, built, andprogrammed by students who may or may not have experience in any or all of these areas. Theaim of Cornerstone is to teach students a baseline of technical skills and prepare them with theuniversal problem-solving and teamwork skills they need to enter any major within the Collegeof Engineering.Beginning in 2017, undergraduate peer-mentors were employed to better support the first-yearstudents in developing some institutional knowledge and achieving the tasks required of them

Conference Session

ECCD Technical Session 5: Energy and Wind and Design

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Joseph C. Rodriguez, United States Coast Guard Academy; Scott C. Pierce, United States Coast Guard Academy; Brennen McCulloch; George McBurney, United States Coast Guard Academy; Tooran Emami Ph. D., United States Coast Guard Academy

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Science at Wichita State University for three semesters. Her research interests are Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) controllers, robust control, time delay, compensator design, and filter design applications, for continuous-time and discrete-time systems. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Hybrid Green Vessel DesignAbstract This paper presents the milestones of a Hybrid Green Vessel Design capstone project. Themotivation of this project is to develop knowledge and skills in green energy applications, hybridvessels, and power management systems. To accomplish this, undergraduate students areresearching and designing a hybrid power plant for a green

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Teaching Part One

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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J. Richard Weggel, Drexel University; James Mitchell, Drexel University; Charles N. Haas, Drexel University

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Civil Engineering

the pre-junior year.2Introduction to Infrastructure Engineering (CAEE201)CAEE201 is a team-taught 3 credit course with 2 hours lecture and 2 hours of computationlaboratory. The course presents two or more engineering case studies of the design,construction, operation and maintenance of infrastructure projects. Key engineering elements ofthe projects illustrate the various disciplines within civil, architectural and environmentalengineering including foundation engineering, structural engineering, site engineering, drainage,security, building systems, environmental issues and construction management. The concept ofan “infrastructure system” that solves a problem within physical, economical, environmental,social and political constraints is

Conference Session

Evaluation and Assessment of IE Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shantha Daniel, Iowa State University; Devna Popejoy-Sheriff, Iowa State University; K. Jo Min, Iowa State University; Leslie Potter, Iowa State University

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Industrial Engineering

, eleven of which are mandated by ABET [1] and five ofwhich are additionally required by the department [2]. Employing the process outlined inFigure 1, various continuous improvement efforts are being made for the outcome items.For example, to improve outcome item (o) [the ability to have a global enterprise Page 11.149.2“Proceedings of the 2006 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright ASEE 2006, American Society for Engineering Education”perspective], students in IE 341, a required Production Systems course, collaborate withstudents from foreign universities in a global supply chain team project via

Conference Session

Mechatronics

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anca L. Sala, Baker College of Flint

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Mechanical Engineering

. Page 23.751.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Infusing Mechatronics and Robotics Concepts in Engineering CurriculumAbstract: Mechatronics and Robotics have continued to grow in importance in recent yearswhich has led many colleges and universities to start offering courses on these topics. A brandnew technical elective course, “Introduction to Mechatronics”, was offered for the first time inspring 2012 at the author’s institution. While the course provides for ten weeks of instruction inMechatronics, as an elective it does not reach a sufficient number of students. The authorreceived a competitive grant internal to the institution for a project to infuse mechatronics androbotics concepts and

Conference Session

Manufacturing Partnerships

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University; Tony Lee Kerzmann, Robert Morris University

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Manufacturing

student goals are shifting some of the placements fromindustrial based internships to in-house engineering and research projects or off-campus researchprograms at other institutions. Real world experience, if it is working for industry or if it iscompleting in-house projects, inherently leads the students to participate in cognitive synthesis aswell as evaluation; the two highest levels of Bloom Taxonomy.2 These external programs arefunded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experiences for Undergraduates(REU) or the NASA Summer Programs. These research experiences are also treated similarly tothe industrial internship positions, since they are under the umbrella of the same course.This paper will present the undergraduate student

Conference Session

Trends and Applications in Curricula and the Capstone Experience

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, Lafayette College; David S. Hurwitz, Oregon State University; Rhonda K Young, University of Wyoming; Rod E. Turochy, Auburn University; Shane A. Brown P.E., Washington State University; Joshua Swake, Oregon State University; Andrea R. Bill, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Kevin Heaslip, Utah State University; Michael Kyte, University of Idaho, Moscow

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Civil Engineering

primary areas of research are in intersection operations, traffic signal control systems, highway capacity, and transportation engineering education. Page 23.68.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 A Model for Collaborative Curriculum Design in Transportation Engineering EducationAbstractThe National Transportation Curriculum Project (NTCP) has been underway for four years as anad-hoc, collaborative effort to effect changes in transportation engineering education.Specifically, the NTCP had developed a set of learning outcomes and associated

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Frontiers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

YongMi Kim; Jai Kang; Chan Park

integrated cash flow analysisprogram written in Java, which includes various computational modules such as presentvalue, future value, annual worth, benefit cost ratio, payback period, discounted paybackperiod, internal rate of return. It also allows the user to obtain a graphical output forpresent value curve, project balances, and cash flow diagram. It has a cash flow input dataeditor that automates the data entry process. We will briefly discuss the design principlesadopted for CFA. Page 8.397.2 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephan A. Durham, University of Georgia; Wesley E. Marshall, University of Colorado, Denver

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Student

take on a leadership role in an organization, develop studygroups with other members, connect with industry professionals, and participate on adesign team. Most student organizations are typically led by the top students within anengineering program. Typically, there is a president, vice president, secretary, andtreasurer for each of these student groups. The responsibilities for each of these positionsprovide students with leadership skills that will later be used in engineering practice upongraduation. Other valuable aspects of these organizations are the projects that areperformed within each. For example, many organizations participate in regional andnational design competitions, such as the ASCE Concrete Canoe and Steel

Conference Session

Contextual Competencies

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christel Heylen, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven; Jos Vander Sloten, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven

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Educational Research and Methods

christel.heylen@mirw.kuleuven.be 2 Jos Vander Sloten, Faculty of Engineering, Division of Biomechanics and Engineering Design, K.U.Leuven, Belgium Technical communication and technical writing are important skills for the daily work- life of every engineer. In the first year engineering program at KU Leuven, a technical writing program is implemented within the project based course ‘Problem Solving and Engineering Design’. The program consists of subsequent cycles of instructions, learning by doing and reflection on received feedback. In addition a peer review assignment, together with an interactive lecture using clicking devices, are incorporated within the assignments of the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University; Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Craig J. Kief, COSMIAC at UNM; Bassam H. Matar, Chandler Gilbert Community College

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

) and microcontrollers is sweeping theelectronics world in the rush to create smaller, faster, and more flexible consumer and industrialdevices. Drake State Community College has put together a team of educational partnersspanning the country with the background and skills necessary to create a vibrant virtual center.Team members include colleges and universities with a history of reaching out to minority andunder-served student populations. Partners on this project have years of successful NationalScience Foundation project implementations educating and training hundreds of instructors, andintroducing thousands of students to advanced technologies. The goal of this project is to offer anunprecedented opportunity to bring America’s technicians

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yvonne Ng

students practice them in a “semi- professional” setting. Written communication, project planning, ethical decision-making and collaborative problem-solving are the essential “soft skills” required for success in any professional engineer. The freshman program at Bucknell University, for example, has students create an ADA-compliant project proposal for the university. This experience impresses upon the Page 10.1194.2 students the importance of making sound technical suggestions and being able to present the required information to persuade (often non-technical) decision makers about ethically

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

teamcan be effectively put together and run, the leader has a lot of preparation work to set the stagefor success. Maxwell provides ten steps that lead to personal organization – an important step inthe process of leading others. 1. “Set Your Priorities. Two things are difficult to get people to do. The first is to do things in order of importance, and the second is to continue doing things in order of importance.” Most people are distracted by email, phone calls or some of the other things listed above. They select the “hottest” project to start on, and then go to the next project that comes their way. As leaders, they need to be more focused so that they can focus those that work for them. Often, hot

Conference Session

Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Sinha

.ABSTRACTConstruction courses in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at thePennsylvania State University focus on the subjects of planning, organization, monitoring andcontrol of the construction projects. There is currently a scarcity of information relating to ethicalconduct in these courses. Government regulations, environmental permits, and other bureaucraticcontrols continue to grow. Projects also continue to get larger and more technical, requiring morespecialized people, high-tech equipment, and better project control systems. This trend requiresthat project managers have technical, business, organizational, ethical, and leadership savvy.Many new regulations and specifications (for example, those of OSHA and ACI) requireconstruction

Conference Session

BME Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vish Prasad; Richard Schoephoerster; Ofer Amit; Alan Carsrud

opportunities for itsfaculty and students to participate in the academic, industrial, or clinical settings. Moreover, theprogram creates a framework that allows partners a look into the biomedical engineeringacademic program and to participate in formulating their prospective employees’ professionalpreparation.This paper will present the Biomedical Engineering Partnership Program as a case study for auniversity-lead partnership between academia, industry, and clinical medicine. It will discussprogram structure, mechanics, and other issues arising from this unique partnership. It will alsodescribe innovative joint programs that made the partnership successful: corporate andentrepreneurship options for Senior Design Project, business plan competition

Conference Session

Current Issues in Information Technology

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Brzoska; Atsushi Inoue; Min-Sung Koh; William Loendorf

: industrial demand within the region and state, the smallnumber of qualified graduates available to enter the workforce, and the increasing pool ofpotential students. Some of the projected activities in the planning process include visiting nation-wide university campuses that currently have SET programs, identifying new laboratoryequipment needs, setting up an advisory board, creating a recruitment plan, and obtaining ABETaccreditation. This paper will document this planning process.Funds from the National Science Foundation (NSF), in form of a recently approved grantproposal, will facilitate the planning process for this program. Some of the components of thecurriculum design to be developed will include integrating new learning strategies and

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bean; Aparajita Mazumder

relationships with subsidiaries offoreign firms in the Rhode Island area and with American firms heavily involved abroad forcreating the international corporate training program. An advisory board is also established.• Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Global Perspective Program 2Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Global Perspective Program emphasizes international teamprojects involving both faculty and students. Undergraduates majoring in engineering, science,management and liberal arts complete sponsored projects at foreign sites. In 1998-99 half oftheir junior class participated in projects abroad accompanied by more than 20 different facultymembers. Team projects take place in sites such as China, Ireland, Thailand, Switzerland, Italy,Denmark

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Zheng-Tao Deng; Abdul R. Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

Systems Approach, industry’s wider acceptance ofcontinuous improvement techniques and a faster search, acquisition, utilization, adaptation, anddeployment of technological breakthroughs.Engineering has become more interdisciplinary and team-oriented than ever before. Industryhas demonstrated and supporting this new practice by re-organizing members of engineeringdivisions into production teams which focus on new projects, products or processes.Professional engineering societies as well as the National Research Council and theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology are amenable in supporting attention to acall to new “Best Practices” for engineering from industry (i.e. elements of a constituency).However, in established engineering

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary D. Keller; Fred Begay; Antonio A. Garcia; Albert L. McHenry

minoritieswithin our region yearly from our baseline value of 702 presented in our grant proposal to 774 inthe academic year 1997. We have been tracking our progress to forward this goal by determiningthe rate of SMET B.S. degrees awarded to African Americans, American Indians, and Hispanicswithin our region (Table 1). Our overall five year goal is to double the number ofunderrepresented SMET baccalaureates to 1,404 in the year 2001 by gradually raising the yearlyrate of increase. Our target for the first year was to raise our baseline value of 702 of SMET B.S.degrees awarded annually to African Americans, American Indians, and Hispanics to 741 at theend of year 1. We more than doubled this projected increase. Comparing baccalaureate degrees earned in

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Dyrud

Session 3230 Getting a Grip on Groups Marilyn A. Dyrud Oregon Institute of TechnologyIntroductionTeamwork: industry wants it and ABET 2000 requires it. But effectively implementing andmanaging student groups for class projects, lab work, and presentations is a complex affair, onethat requires organization, understanding, and tact. This paper offers a general overview of thecurrent state of group work in technical classes by examining ASEE literature for the past threeyears and comparing that information with the results of a survey of Oregon Institute

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 4

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas Choi, University of California, Irvine; Liang Li Wu, University of California, Irvine

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

Practices of a Multidisciplinary Experiential Learning Engineering CourseABSTRACTThis complete paper describes the implementation and evaluation of a two-term lower-divisionengineering course, which provides a team-based experiential learning approach to allengineering majors. The course focuses on the design-build-test of a remote controlled (RC) andan autonomous system respectively across the two terms while integrating the engineering designprocess. The project is designed to engage multiple engineering majors by focusing on theengineering design process and introducing each engineering discipline to the students.Technical topics directly related to the project across different fields are instructed duringlecture. By

Conference Session

Advancements in Sustainable Manufacturing Practices

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenny Dwight Harris, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology; Mahin Rajon Bhuyan, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology; gordon qian, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology; Alaric Hyland, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology; Shouling He, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology; Brandon Seth Cuevas, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology

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Manufacturing Division (MFG)

qian, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology Gordon Qian is a senior Mechatronics Engineering Major at Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Engineering. For this project, their role entailed acting as software lead focusing on the programming of the Arduino Mega in C++ and running the tests with the components alongside electrical. During periods in which programming or tests could not be completed, the organization of both responsibilities per person and items or files based on work completed was established and maintained.Alaric Hyland, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and TechnologyDr. Shouling He, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology Dr. Shouling He holds a position of professor of Engineering and Technology

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Education and Workforce Development Challenges

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sinead MacNamara, Syracuse University

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Civil Engineering

AC 2011-1802: TRANS-DISCIPLINARY DESIGN TEACHING FOR CIVILENGINEERS AND ARCHITECTS LESSONS LEARNED AND FUTUREPLANSSinead MacNamara, Syracuse University Page 22.1541.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 TRANS-DISCIPLINARY DESIGN TEACHING FOR CIVIL ENGINEERS AND ARCHITECTS – LESSONS LEARNED AND FUTURE PLANSIntroductionThis paper describes ongoing efforts at Syracuse University to institute a trans-disciplinarycourse that brings together architecture and structural engineering students for a joint designseminar. This course forms part of a larger NSF funded project aimed at increasing innovationand

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Burleson; Noah Salzman; Christopher Emery; Kevin Kloesel; Sandra Cruz Pol; Omnia El-Hakim; Kathleen Rubin

theknowledge that they acquired in the content institute in their elementary, middle, and high schoolclassrooms. Collaboration among teachers from different states was encouraged during the weekthat the teachers were together, and the end of the course saw several exciting plans forcooperative projects in the future. Follow-up activities included developing a CD and web-basedarchive of the course, and the teachers returning to the University of Massachusetts to present onthe projects they developed. Page 10.298.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

Conference Session

Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Harwell; Donna Shirley; Hillel Kumin

Education”3. Job Excelling and Creating Graduates - Attract and retain the very best students by our leadership in producing graduates widely known for not only being in great demand for existing jobs, but for their understanding of, and unique preparation for, creating jobs.These goals led to the definition of specific educational objectives for the College, suchas:1. Cutting Edge Education a. Improve the student/faculty ratio to at most 15/1 in every school, which will require increasing the faculty by 40-50%. b. Increase project-based, multidisciplinary educational opportunities. c. Increase our focus on technology-based learning to enable educational innovation. d. Improve the educational infrastructure.2. Cutting Edge

Conference Session

FPD 11: Culminating Considerations

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Silvia Husted, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Judith Virginia Gutierrez; Nelly Ramirez-Corona, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas Puebla

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First-Year Programs

exerciseseffective.2-4 This paper will describe in detail how a second semester cornerstone (and pillar)course (Introduction to Chemical, Food, and Environmental Engineering Design) for theseundergraduate degrees at Universidad de las Américas Puebla (Mexico) is helping to achievethese objectives, as well as its alignment with the Investment Theory of Creativity (ITC)developed by Sternberg and Lubart.5-8Creativity assessment was grounded on the Consensual Assessment Technique that is based onthe idea that the best measure of creativity regardless of what is being evaluated, is theassessment by experts in that field.9 The two major projects from this course were presented toexperts in the field that assessed student creative thinking by means of a rubric

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2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Siddharth Alagiri; Sivaganeshwar Subramaniam; Pedro C. P. Cupertino; Daniel I. Chikwendu; Adam C. Lynch

how integrating systems engineering principles with digital transformationstrategies can improve these areas.Objective: This research applies NASA's Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP) and theINCOSE Vee Life Cycle Model to an electronics manufacturing startup, coupled with ananalysis of financial advantages using Deloitte's digital transformation model.Methods: The study leverages NASA's SEMP and the INCOSE Vee Life Cycle Model to ensurecomprehensive project management. Deloitte's model is employed to assess the financial benefitsof adopting a digital-first strategy, emphasizing cost efficiency, resource optimization, andproduct quality.Conclusion: The integration of systems engineering, and digital transformation

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2013 GSW

Authors

Christina K. White; Richard H. Crawford

Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Educationinternational scholars striving with hope in this challenging time. We do more than hope for abetter, safer, and more accessible world for our global citizens because, as agents of change, weput that hope into action with the work and research that we conduct. Margaret Mead oncewisely advised, "Never doubt that a small group of people can change the world. Indeed, it is theonly thing that ever has." Commensurate with her notion we face the 21st Century EngineeringGrand Challenges locally with student-facilitated projects and globally as a network of activists.Teachers, students, community members, policy makers, and industry are working

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

David Willis; Jeremy Vaillant

challenges of any FYE program is the recon-ciliation of student enrollment, student engagement and faculty time, budget, and space re-sources. Higher student retention rates are positive for the students, institution as well as the na-tional STEM needs; however, there appears to be no “ one size fits all” Freshman Year Experi-ence to guarantee student retention.Freshman engineering experiences vary from one engineering program to the next. Several engi-neering colleges have adopted a cornerstone-to-capstone approach that engages students with aproject intensive freshman year experience and then revisits this hands-on project philosophythrough the curriculum to later culminate with a senior capstone design project2,3. The projects inthe freshman year

Conference Session

Professional Papers

Collection

2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Ayush Vasu Gowda, Florida Atlantic University; Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; Juan David Yepes, Florida Atlantic University

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Professional Papers

and gain practical experience in an accessible way. In this paper, we detail theprogression of technical expertise, problem-solving abilities, and creative thinking fosteredthrough exploration.The student joined this project with minimal robotics knowledge and only a basic understandingof computer vision. He learned about theoretical mathematical algorithms developed prior to hisinvolvement and was introduced to existing Python and Excel simulations. After learning thetheory, the student assembled a HiWonder JetAuto Pro Jetson Nano robot, created an artificial3D environment, developed a Python program using OpenCV, and implemented and verified thetheories and simulations. He also recorded and processed relevant videos.As part of a team