Conference Session

Best Practices for Two-Year Students Majoring in Engineering & STEM Fields

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen M. Groppi P.E., Cabrillo College; Susan Tappero, Cabrillo College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

in sharing their logical thought processes as well as beingquestioned about them.Intentional community building in PREP begins on Day 1 of the intensive when students,TAs and faculty are randomly paired, interview each other and then introduce their partnerto the group. The same short bios are later posted to a members-only website that supportsthe cohort, next to a photo of that person. During the first week other ice-breaker andteam-building activities continue to be implemented so that students bond and feelknown. Having this sense of ease among the group is important, as the academic tasks theyare given can be daunting. Students are divided into four different small groups over thetwo weeks so that they have worked closely with nearly

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Myron (Ron) Britton

four year schedule that contains at least 75% design by the CEAB Academic Unit allocation. Each program will have their own course and will emphasize the aspects of design that are unique to the particular discipline.- A capstone design course in each program. The feasibility of having a common capstone design course across the faculty was to be explored as part of the Chair Program.4. Impact on graduate studiesTraditionally graduate studies has been based on research. Two specific actions were proposedto influence, but not change, the traditional approach. It was proposed to develop a graduatecourse on design philosophy as well as to introduce Industry Based Design Units (IBDU).M.Eng. students would be encouraged to pursue

Conference Session

Creating Equity Through Structure and Pedagogy

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chelsea Nneka Onyeador, Stanford University; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Gloriana Trujillo, Stanford University; Carol B. Muller, Stanford University

Tagged Topics

ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

biology classrooms. Throughout her scientific career, Gloriana has been an advocate for underrepresented and underprivileged populations, and is an active member of SACNAS.Dr. Carol B. Muller, Stanford University Carol B. Muller is the Executive Director of WISE Ventures, an internal initiative at Stanford, designed to communicate, build networks, and help seed new and needed ventures across the Stanford campus to c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Paper ID #23735advance gender equity in science and engineering. She also directs Stanford’s Faculty Women’s Forum.A longtime university

Conference Session

Thinking, Reasoning, and Engineering in Elementary School

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michele Strutz, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

without anyone’s influence. All agegroups listed their science and math teachers but in different positions of influence. Friends orneighbors who were engineers were identified in all age groups, and a relative who was anengineer was identified in four of the five age groups. The participants’ guidance counselor wasidentified as influential in the three higher age groups, but not identified in the lower two agegroups’ lists of the top nine influencers. Today, Guidance Counselors seem to be focused on thesocial and emotional needs of their students, and do not have much time to guide their studentswith career counseling (K.E., personal communication, 2/6/08).Table 3Influencers on Individual’s Decision to Pursue Engineering

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session: Works in Progress

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

A. Leyf Peirce Starling, The Engineering Place, North Carolina State University; Diane Brauner, Perkins School for the Blind

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division

Starling, anengineering educator and curriculum development specialist with over ten years of K-12classroom experience, directed and organized the camp activities and lead the team ofprofessionals. The science teacher provided additional instructional support during theimplementation of the camp. The TVIs and O&M supported the students in daily living andtransitional skills. Additionally, one undergraduate education student and one graduate studentstudying biology provided insight on current strategies helpful to navigating college. Thesynergistic efforts of each team member contributed to being able to meet the needs of thestudents and provide them with an outstanding opportunity to explore engineering practices.Student application and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Ofori-Boadu, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (CoE); Rabiatu Bonku; Mercy Fash; Jennifer Richmond-Bryant, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Alesia Ferguson

/ [Accessed: 22-April-2022][3] M. Fash, A. N. Ofori-Boadu, R. Bonku, W. Alford, A. Ferguson, and A. White, “An examination of professor-student interactions, stem learning challenges, and student adaptation decisions during covid-19 pandemic,” 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Proceedings, July 26 - 29, 2021, 2021.[4] M. Komarraju, S. J. Karau, and R. R. Schmeck, “Role of the big five personality traits in predicting college students' academic motivation and achievement,” Learning and Individual Differences, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 47–52, 2009.[5] A. R. Artino and J. M. Stephens, “Academic motivation and self-regulation: A comparative analysis of undergraduate and Graduate Students Learning Online,” The Internet and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hilda Cecilia Contreras Aguirre, New Mexico State University; Nicole Delgado, New Mexico State University; Luis Rodolfo Garcia Carrillo, New Mexico State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

skills that are transferable in their decisions to enter into graduate studies or the professional worldDr. Luis Rodolfo Garcia Carrillo, New Mexico State University Luis Rodolfo GARCIA CARRILLO received the PhD. degree in Control Systems from the University of Technology of Compi`egne, France. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center of Control, Dynamical systems and Computation at UC Santa Barbara, USA. He currently holds an Assistant Professor position with the Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Mexico State University, USA. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Latinx Engineering Students Surviving the Odds to Accomplish

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum and Course Development

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Edward F. Crawley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Mark Bathe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rea Lavi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Amitava "Babi" Mitra, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Institute of MIT & Harvard, Co-Chair of the MIT New Engineering Education Transformation, and Chair of the MIT Committee on Student Life. Professor Bathe obtained his Doctoral Degree from MIT working in the Departments of Mechanical, Chemical, and Biological Engineering before moving to the University of Munich to carry out his postdoctoral research. He returned to MIT in 2009 to join the faculty in the Department of Biological Engineering, where he runs an interdisciplinary research group focused on the targeted delivery of therapeutic nucleic acids and vaccines, phenotypic profiling of neuronal circuits involved in psychiatric disease, and engineering nucleic acid materials for highly parallel molecular computing

Conference Session

Design Teams 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Margaret Garnett Smallwood, University of Texas at Dallas; Robert Hart P.E., University of Texas at Dallas; Todd W. Polk, University of Texas at Dallas

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

longer meets the 0.05 threshold.Further comparison of the small Engineering cohort and the BCOM cohort shows significantswings in the small Engineering cohort's improvement on Questions 9 and 11-13. This furtherconfirms both the effectiveness of training smaller cohorts and the effect of the communicationstraining on engineering students.ImplicationsSimilar to the smaller engineering cohort, the 105-member BCOM cohort consisted of smaller(35-person) classes. The business students’ prior experience working with more than two teammembers on open-ended projects appeared to help the BCOM cohort in this study navigate someof the areas explored by the Briggs [10] team health check: Team Leadership, Processes,Understanding Differences, and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Montasir Abbas P.E., Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Engineering faculty and high school teachers can use to teach and assess learning outcomes.Assess Learning and Evaluate Innovations  Collaborate with our advisory board to develop and evaluate game course modules.  Evaluate college students’ engagement in transportation engineering in relation to use of multiple teaching methods using motivational scale instrument.  Assess college students’ learning gains using performance assessment  Assess changes in high school students’ decision-making as a result of learning about the yellow light “dilemma zone” using game performance results.  Conduct focus groups with advisory board members and students.Conduct Research on STEM Teaching and Learning  Publish tested models of

Conference Session

Civil Engineering in the Classroom

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

thatdiscussions, through an open forum, are judged to be superior to traditional lectures in improvingcritical thinking, cultivating desirable personal attributes, and acquiring problem-solving skills.What is A Case Study?A case study typically is a record or a narrative account of a technical and a business issue(problem) that actually has been faced by an individual and/or a group, together with relevantfacts, opinions, and prejudices upon which decisions have to depend. Several case formatsappear in the literature. Most cases are intended to engage students in a learning process through:analysis, open discussion, and ending with evaluations and recommendations. A case historydescribes how a problem was approached and solved, and often examines the

Conference Session

Transformative Learning in STEM: Accessibility, Social Impact, and Inclusivity in Higher Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claudia Mara Dias Wilson, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Thais Alves, San Diego State University; Corrie Walton-Macaulay, Saint Martin's University; Xiaomei Wang, Brigham Young University; Scott R Hamilton P.E., York College of Pennsylvania; Gloria Faraone; Nicholas Tymvios, Bucknell University; Moses Tefe, Norwich University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

engage in those reflections needed to evaluate complex situations, which often involve socio-economic and political considerations. Case studies have been shown to be an effective way to do that, and an effective case study allows students to go beyond the simple facts of the case by looking at laws past and present, historical context, and current practice and lead them to make informed decisions [16]. This process not only enhances their analytical abilities but also encourages them to explore new dimensions of the engineering practice, facilitating that much needed shift to a more equitable and socio-centered engineering practice. This broader perspective encourages students to consider the

Conference Session

FPD XI: Assessing First-Year Programs, Experiences, and Communities

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia R. Backer, San Jose State University; Emily L. Allen, San Jose State University; Janet Sundrud, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Page 22.255.7engineering students: Engineering Student Success Center and MESA (Mathematics,Engineering, and Science Achievement) Engineering Program.The Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering Student Success Center (ESSC) includes aninfrastructure that provides academic, career, co-curricular, and advising programs forengineering students. It is an inclusive environment that fosters collaboration and responsibilityamong students, staff, and faculty. The mission of the ESSC is to empower engineering studentsfrom application to graduation, to support their academic and personal growth, and to engagethem as lifetime members of the college learning community.The ESSC’s main goal is to support engineering students and the college learning

Conference Session

Diversity and Inclusion

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mel Chua, Olin College; Tess Edmonds, Olin College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

gradually increases thelevel of vulnerability required so as to ease students from a context where personal affectiveexperience is uncommon. Begin with low-risk Open Sentences that allow for various levels ofcomfort. To take a real-world example from a sustainable design class exploring the design ofenvironments, beginning with an Open Sentence such as, “A place that I loved as a child…” issafer than “When I look at the world today, what I find most heartbreaking is…” Along similarnotes, beginning a feedback session with an Open Sentence that prompts positive feedback isoften easier for students, and cultivates greater openness to then progress to sharing criticalfeedback, such as, “When I reflect upon my experience working on this team, I wish…”In

Conference Session

Retention Issues

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phyllis Tedford, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi; John Fernandez, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

board which includes various computer components to be usedat presentations, and going out to high schools, junior colleges, and other pre-collegeprograms to give in-person presentations about the CS program at A&M – CC. These in-person presentations are followed up with the recruiters making phone calls to studentswho expressed an interest in the program.The recruiting team and CS faculty also participate in Island Day Fairs. Island Day Fairsare university-sanctioned events that provide high school students and their parents withan opportunity to visit the university, explore different programs offered by the Page 11.344.5university

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michele Auzenne; Jeanne Garland; J. Phillip King; Ricardo Jacquez

research theyhave conducted in the URA program. As a result, several of the students obtained summerinternships with the New Mexico Department of Transportation. The students’ responses tothese experiences were positive and developed their awareness of what is expected in an actualworld-of-work interview. Each of the post internship reports that the interns wrote reveal thatthe internship experience directed them to a specific civil engineering specialization for theirfuture career.Not only students benefited, however. For faculty, new pedagogical methodology wasdeveloped, especially for the community college instructors who had the opportunity to partnerwith university faculty. New curricular connections have begun as one of the faculty for

Conference Session

Rethinking Aerospace Curricula and Learning

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Hannigan, Mississippi State University; Carrie Olsen, Mississippi State University; David Bridges, Mississippi State University; Keith Koenig, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

and Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics. It is taken by both concentrations and oftenincludes a Lab. Our program may want to consider adopting this arrangement as well.The question was raised that a decision must be made to continue to teach one, combinedpropulsion course or to split propulsion into Rocket Propulsion and Jet Propulsion. This decisionholds implications for the aerodynamics topics that will be deemed “required” for the Page 11.1118.6astronautics students. In addition, the size of our faculty and availability of an instructor for twopropulsion classes verses one must be considered.The Capstone Design Experience: There is no doubt that

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 8: Project-based Learning and Cornerstone Courses

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Elmore, Binghamton University; Sharon B Fellows, Binghamton University; Koenraad E Gieskes, Binghamton University; Lee A Cummings, Binghamton University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

project-based curriculum to more fully Page 26.751.3engage first-year students.Project Descriptions The projects in spring 2013 were selected by the engineering Graduate Teaching Assistants(GTAs), who work within the first-year program. Each GTA represents one of the engineeringdisciplines within the Watson School: Mechanical, Electrical, Computer, Systems Science andIndustrial, and Biomedical engineering departments. Each GTA submitted three ideas andpresented them to the Engineering Design Division faculty, who made the final decisions. Theengineering faculty then wrote a brief summary of each project for the students. Each GTAserves as an

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Retention Programs for Diverse Students

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer L. Groh, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

with engineering colleagues and students”. 10Most recently, a similar approach in the form of career management courses, is recommended forall engineering students, and not just women.3 A course was introduced at the Women inEngineering ProActive Network (WEPAN) 2015 Change Leader Forum entitled “Empower andIgnite Future Women Leaders”.11 Another group of researchers created an extracurricularoffering, entitled “Gender and Engineering” for interested students and faculty. One goal of thisoffering is to provide female students “with a framework to understand their experience has thecapacity to transform their individually internalized messages of personal inadequacy or notbelonging into a larger contextualized experience that they can name

Conference Session

FPD I: Attacking the Problems of Retention in the First Year

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan D. Niemi, LeTourneau University; Robert W. Warke, LeTourneau University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

, we recommended that initialimprovements be made in our freshman year. These should focus on an early introduction to theengineering field and the creation of first-year interest groups with significant faculty and peermentor interactions. The development of a new first-semester course to provide experiences inengineering practice was also recommended.This report details our findings and supports our recommendations.IntroductionFor the five freshman cohorts (1998–2002) that were considered in this study, the averagegraduation rate for LETU engineering and engineering technology students was 42%. This wassubstantially below the roughly 55% US national average graduation rate in recent years forundergraduate engineering students. In addition to

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques in the Classroom

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jayne Marks, University of Pittsburgh; Kevin J. Ketchman, University of Pittsburgh; David R. Riley II, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Lisa Riley Brown, Penn State University; Melissa M. Bilec, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

undergraduate engineering courses and studied the effects on student learning as wellas student perception of classroom environment in the seven psychosocial dimensions:personalization, involvement, student cohesiveness, satisfaction, task orientation, innovation, andindividualization.2. Class Information The University of Pittsburgh is a public university with 16,719 full time undergraduatesand 10,297 graduate students. The flipped class contained 33 students of mixed majors andyears in school, but was predominately civil and environmental students. The class was CEE Page 24.1295.31218/2218-Design for the Environment, an experiential learning

Conference Session

WIED: Medley

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University; Helene Finger P.E., California Polytechnic State University; Alana Christine Snelling

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

engineering as a major, 3) how the students made their decisions about education, and 4)who the students are and how their identities compare to dominant images of what it means to bean engineer. This research is most immediately relevant to CPSU as an institution, however, thedata allow for exploration of what attracts some students to engineering, and therefore maysuggest strategies for recruitment of female and male undergraduate students in engineering atthis and other institutions, as well as additional research questions focused on studentmotivations and understandings of engineering as a discipline in pre-collegiate contexts. Thispaper reports on two years of survey data (2011 and 2013).MethodologyThis research project is survey based and was

Conference Session

Special Session Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the MATE International ROV Competition

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas E. Oppliger, Michigan Technological University; Valorie Troesch, Michigan Technological University; Jean Kampe, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

) was an outcome of a December 2004 report generated byMichigan Lieutenant Governor John Cherry’s roundtable commission that addressed the issue ofhow to create a 21st century Michigan workforce2. In response to this report, representatives fromMichigan Tech began investigating ways to increase linkages with K-12 education. They soughtto motivate and prepare more students for higher education and STEM careers. Among themultiple initiatives undertaken was High School Enterprise. The university agreed to fund asmall, one-year test program in three Michigan high schools for the 2007-2008 school year.Based on positive preliminary outcomes, a pilot HSE program was subsequently supported byNSF through a one-year IEECI (EEC 0835670) award and then a

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention Matters in Engineering Technology

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene L. Harding, Purdue University, Statewide Technology; Michael D. Sanders, Purdue University, Statewide Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

into the IndianaUniversity – South Bend campus, which itself is a satellite of the main IU campus in Page 25.1080.2Bloomington, Indiana.Conference OverviewPurdue’s South Bend location hosted its 3rd annual Project Lead the Way Conference forapproximately 100 high school students in the South Bend metropolitan area. A conferencetheme is chosen each year that will engage students in a hands-on activity to explore theelectrical/electronic, mechanical, and manufacturing aspects of the conference theme. The themefor this conference was to explore a solar energy system to provide electrical power to an Indianaresidence. Ancillary to the theme was

Conference Session

Diversity in Community Engagement Implementation II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Plymesser PE, Montana State University, Billings; Damon Lee Sheumaker; Christopher Robert Allen, Civil Engineering and the Center For Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

cycling and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions from constructed wetlands. For the past eight years he has been involved with Engineers Without Borders and is one of the current faculty advisors for the Montana State University chapter. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Engineers Without Borders-Montana State University: A Case Study in Student-Directed Engagement in Community ServiceKathryn Plymesser, PhD, PE, Montana State University – BillingsDamon Sheumaker, Montana State UniversityChris Allen, Montana State UniversityAbstractEngineers Without Borders at Montana State University (EWB@MSU) is an organization thathas been successful in generating increased student

Conference Session

Technical Session 9 - Paper 1: The New Normal: Student Perspectives on Supportive University Policies during COVID and Beyond

Collection

2022 CoNECD (Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity)

Authors

Maimuna Begum Kali, Florida International University; Stephen Secules, Florida International University

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

that the personal support from the successcoach was “simple, but it was powerful” [FGP41 Ad, Male].Other than the advisor, students talked about faculty being a close point of contact for manystudents. This matter is especially true for students who started during the pandemic; forthem, the faculty was the only representative from the university. However, FGPs mentionedfaculty only relate to students narrowly on their courses. FGP31 Ig, a transfer student whostarted school during spring 2020, shared an experience when she heard her uncle died duringa class. At that moment, she did not feel the faculty were approachable enough for her toshare the news; she also did not find any resources about how to deal with the unpleasantsituation. During

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Wenshen Pong, San Francisco State University; Hamid Shahnasser, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

graduation rate is lowest for Latinos at 78%and African Americans at 83% compared to 96% for Asians and 94% for Whites.5 Located inSilicon Valley, Cañada College is a member of the California Community College System, and isone of three colleges in the San Mateo County Community College District. It is one of only twofederally-designated Hispanic Serving Institutions in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Collegeopened in 1968, and is located in Redwood City, California. During the 2011-2012 academic year,the College enrolled 10,965 students. The student body is multi-cultural with Hispanic students asthe largest single group at 35.5%; white students comprise 32.6%, Asians 8.1%,African-Americans 3.9%, Filipinos 3.6%, Pacific Islanders 1.7%, American

Conference Session

Design Teams 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Swapneel Thite P.E., University of New South Wales; Jayashri Ravishankar, University of New South Wales; Araceli Martinez Ortiz, NASA Headquarters; Eliathamby Ambikairajah, University of New South Wales

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

a Life Member of APSIPA. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Work in Progress: Review of teaching strategies towards development of a framework for online teamworkAbstract:Teamwork and leadership (T&L) skills are highly valued skills in industries allover the world. These graduate attributes significantly influence studentemployability and improve chances of early career growth. Coronavirus (COVID19) pandemic has pushed the higher education sector to convert teaching deliveryfrom face to face (f2f) to online abruptly. Teamwork activities are traditionallyassociated with f2f engagement between students, peers, and faculty. Hence,cultivating teamwork and

Collection

2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Eric D. Mead; Karen Reynolds; Lawrence Whitman

. There is, therefore, a broad base of knowledge using LEGO® bricks to expose students to a wide variety of concepts. Shocker MINDSTORMS The Shocker MINDSTORMS program at WSU utilizes LEGO® MINDSTORMS to encourage young students to explore, experiment, and experience STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) learning in a hands-on constructionist environment17. Shocker MINDSTORMS began in 2001 as a collaboration among faculty and staff in the WSU Colleges of Education and Engineering, WSU engineering students, and local industry. The intent was to involve teachers and students in hands-on learning by providing a framework that included teacher training, teacher and student support, and an annual culminating event where students

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Technical Session 12

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kris Jaeger-Helton, Northeastern University; Constantine Mukasa, Northeastern University; Richard Whalen, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

, collaborate, and learn how to make decisions as a group tosuccessfully develop a solution to the problem they are working on.Capstone OverviewUpon approaching graduation, the undergraduate program at Northeastern University requires a 2-semester Senior Capstone Design (‘Capstone’) sequence as part of its accredited engineering degreeprogram. It contributes to all categories of the new ABET assessment standards [13]. Four-or five-person teams are formed to tackle projects proposed by faculty, industry sponsors, or communitypartners (the ‘clients’/sponsors). The teams are supervised by individual faculty members (advisors),all overseen by a Capstone coordinator or a partnership of co-coordinators.Capstone 1. During Capstone 1, teams more thoroughly