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2024 CIEC

Authors

Gary Mullett; Lara Sharp

very active in the ASEE serving on its EngineeringTechnology Council and on the planning team for the Engineering Technology Leadership Institute. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2024, American Society for Engineering Education

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2024 CIEC

Authors

H. Bryan Riley

paramount and thus the results do not satisfy the right-hand-sides asa standard requirement, ChatGPT results can be very confusing to the novice student who isattempting to learn to solve simultaneous equations for the first time. To further explore thestudents’ reception and awareness of ChatGPT, we designed a survey using Qualtrics. Thesurvey was administered to approximately 32 first-year STEM students and the questions areprovided in appendix B. In this plan of study, students will subsequently migrate to differentmajors such as mechanical, nuclear, electrical, industrial, and manufacturing technologyprograms having the knowledge and confidence to solve simultaneous equations. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference for

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2024 CIEC

Authors

Sarah (Yin Yin) Tan; Song-Lin Yang; David Labyak

service, mental service, community building activities, and honorsprograms, to enhance student academic performance and mental well-being. More conclusiveinsights will require time as our program expands and engages more scholars. As for futurestudy, we plan to delve into the transition of our students into the workforce and their subsequentcareer outcomes and make a comparison with those following traditional engineering transferpathways.1. IntroductionSuccess in academics and career is shaped by a multitude of factors, among which students’perceptions of their preparedness for school and their expectations play significant roles [1], [2].Previous research has indicated that transfer students in the S-STEM Engineering TechnologyScholars (ETS

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2024 CIEC

Authors

Alexander Wyglinski

components, a unique and transformative graduateexperience for industry practitioners seeking to pursue a PhD degree should be feasible.Based on the author’s experiences with respect to the development and implementation of theWPI Experiential PhD framework, which started in July 2021, the following steps should betaken when planning to implement an Experiential PhD framework at their academic institutionwith the caveat that all universities possess their differences and several of these steps may needsome level of adaptation:Step 1 – Identify/Communicating With All Internal Administrative StakeholdersA university is not operated by one single monolithic administration but rather by numerousbusiness units with very focused mandates. It is important

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2024 CIEC

Authors

Mahdi Yazdanpour; Leslie Ferrao; Biplov Ale

, including healthcare, manufacturing,autonomous vehicles, and home automation, where human-robot collaboration plays a crucialrole in enhancing efficiency and productivity. While our previous work primarily focused onindoor path planning for humanoid robots [2], [3], this paper explores the intersection of AI withrobotics to address smart industrial automation and its transformative impact on modern Proceedings of the 2024 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2024, American Society for Engineering Education ETD 445manufacturing practices in the context of Industry 4.0. Our area of research focuses

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2024 CIEC

Authors

Mohamed Zeidan; Ahmad Fayed; Mehmet Bahadir

chemistry may have difficulty understanding and following standards that specify material requirements for corrosion resistance.4. Approaches and MethodsIn this paper, the authors are proposing a variety of approaches to address the challenges ofteaching engineering standards to students. These ideas were generated based on discussionswith educators, industry partners and alumni. Few of these approached were partially applied inengineering technology classes at Southeastern Louisiana University. Some of these approachesare planned to be introduced for future classes and programs. The approaches suggested here canbe implemented over a sequence of courses or within a single course. These methods should alsobe adjusted to fit the students’ level

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt M. Degoede, Elizabethtown College; Brenda Read-Daily, Elizabethtown College; Rachel Koh, Smith College

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

analyzing theirfailures and how they respond to those failures. We will explore expanding the Failure Mindsetsurvey to incorporate existing surveys designed to assess risk tolerance, and survey allparticipants at the start and end of each semester. We plan to collect data on the first open-endedquestion at the start of the semester and develop a coding system to systematically score thesequalitative responses.References[1] Psychology today staff, “Growth mindset.” Available at https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/growth-mindset (Accessed Aug 14, 2023).[2] KEEN, “The KEEN framework - providing learning outcomes for students.” Available at https://engineeringunleashed.com/framework (Accessed Aug 14, 2023).[3] KEEN, “Entrepreneurial mindset

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ELOS Technical Session 3 - Diversity

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nebojsa I. Jaksic, Colorado State University, Pueblo

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Diversity

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

project so far, and the plan for the next week. Reportsare sent to all faculty mentors at least 1 hour before the meeting. At the meeting, one representativeof each project gives a short verbal report addressing problems, breakthroughs, and the state of theproject. The faculty found this format to be successful because students get to know all the programfaculty since they are all engaged with all program projects. In addition, the same format is adheredto in the Senior Design Project course. Furthermore, all student participants are required to presentposters and PowerPoint presentations at university-wide STEM research symposia that areorganized every semester.Project History The eVTOL UAV project theme started in 2014 when a student

Conference Session

Advancements in Sustainable Manufacturing Practices

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hayder Zghair, Southern Arkansas University; Noah Wesley Bretz, Southern Arkansas University; Jeffrey Sumner, Southern Arkansas University

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Manufacturing Division (MFG)

up when done on an industrial scale. For me, this highlighted a need to consider sustainability and emissions in all designs and solutions that I create. In addition, I am planning to begin my master's degree in mechanical engineering in the fall, and having experience in conducting research will benefit me greatly as I enter a research-oriented graduate program.”As an educator evaluating student learning outcomes, nothing more than seeing how students feel confidentabout their knowledge and excited to put their skills and tools to use at the first possible opportunity isreflecting that we are contributing to workforce excellence in the 21st century.5. ConclusionIn conclusion, manufacturing engineering and

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andres Gabriel Gomez, University of Florida; Catia S. Silva, University of Florida

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

) coordinates, along with a presence value. Allfeatures scaled to the [0,1] range, resulting in a total of 91 normalized affect features. To enablereal-time prediction of user-specific performance, the system undergoes initial tuning. Duringinitial interactions, sequences of affect features and corresponding scores are collected. If theseinteractions take the form of lessons, the student's video is segmented into sequences,delineated by in-lesson assessments. Affect sequences and scores are used to tune theperformance predictor, and we plan to both train and test Transformers, Recurrent NeuralNetworks (RNN) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) models. After adequate tuning, theperformance predictor becomes operational in subsequent sessions. Consequently

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin E Wandke, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Christopher D. Schmitz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Jonathon Kenneth Schuh, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Yang Victoria Shao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

encouragestudents to discuss their predictions of what will happen with their peers, rather than justanswering with iClicker, as this has been shown to further improve student learning [8, 14].Lastly, we plan to reshoot some of these videos utilizing best practices to improve theireffectiveness, such as showing demonstrations from a first-person perspective [14], writing outkey information as the demonstration is given rather than just displaying it [15], and focusing onvisual tabletop demonstrations [16]. We believe that these changes can further improve thequality of demonstration videos to improve the overall educational experience of our students byproviding high quality, exciting demonstrations to them in a course where they previously didnot have

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ruoshi Zhang, University of Louisville; Nathan George, University of Louisville; Dan O Popa, University of Louisville

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

Systems and ECE500 Introduction to Advanced Microcontrollers.Nathan George, University of Louisville Nathan George is currently a junior level undergraduate student at the University of Louisville studying computer science. His academic interests include artificial life, automation, real-time simulation, and user experience.Prof. Dan O Popa, University of Louisville Dan Popa has over 30 years of research experience in robotics and automation. He is currently the Director of the Louisville Automation and Robotics Research Institute (LARRI) at UofL and the Head of the Next Generation Research Group (NGS). His early research work included adaptive force control and motion planning for nonholonomic robots. In 1998, he

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

William H. Semke; Arnold F. Johnson; Richard. R. Schultz; Chang-Hee Won; Jason G. Gullicks; Nicholas E. Hulst; Douglas R. Olsen; George A. Seielstad

then operates in the restricted category with the associated regulations.Upon completion of the missions the system is removed from the aircraft and it returns to theStandard Airworthiness category with Inspection Authority approval. The FAA applicationpacket includes reports from a structural DER, a system DER, a test pilot DER, and anOperations Manual and Instructions for Continued Airworthiness. The first test flight of thesystem occurred on April 28th, 2002 and it performed flawlessly. An image of our first day offlying is shown in Fig. 11. Fig. 11. The AEROCam system on its inagural day of flight testing.III. Summary and Future Plans The project to date has been a success and has generated much interest from bothwithin

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Bryan Cooperrider

human power to conceive, plan, and realize products that serve humanbeings in the accomplishment of any individual or collective purpose.”5Convergent thinking is a process of logical reasoning that converges on one “correct” answer.What is 2+2? Clearly it is four. There is only one right answer in this line of thinking.Convergent thinking is useful in the realm of analysis and any quantifiable engineering process.This method of thinking serves quite well in many of the “engineering science” classes taught toprepare an engineer.Creativity may be simply defined as the ability to generate novel and innovative ideas in aneffort to solve a stated issue, situation, or problem. Divergent thinking is closely associated withcreativity in that multiple

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

David Lanning

% and not spend time retaking the exam until theypass. However, the author has also noted that each of these students is doing quite poorly in allaspects of Solid Mechanics, even at this early date in the semester.SummaryThe prerequisite skills exam implemented in the author’s Solid Mechanics course has producedmany qualitative benefits, although efforts to find quantitative evidence of improved skillsretention at the end of the semester has not yet borne any fruit. The author plans to continueimplementing the exam in future semesters and monitoring student outcomes during the finalexams.Bibliography 1. Helbling, J., Lanning, D., Madler, R., Marriott, D., and Siebold, K. (2007). "Impact of New Facilities on Engineering Student

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Xiaomin Jin; Xiao-hua Yu; Xiang-Ning Kang; Guo-Yi Zhang

their fabrication facility. As for the research visits, the sending country pays theinternational airfare, while the host country pays for the expenses related to a short visit.• Low financial burden on the students from both sides: For some students, spending aperiod abroad is costly. Students also have to plan carefully to make their curriculum flexibleenough to allow them to be away long term and not fall behind in other courses. Our projectallows the students to get international experience without having to deal with interruptions intheir regular course sequence. The short international visit is only an option and enhancement ofthe collaboration, but it is not a necessary component.• Data accessibility around the world

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Hao Jiang; José Carrillo; Alam Salguero; Ellaine Talle; Enrique Raygoza; Xenia Leon; Ben Lariviere; Amelito G. Enriquez; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shahnasser; Hamid Mahmoodi; Cheng Chen

1, which extracted from the survey, clearly indicates students’enthusiasm towards the research.Table 1: Students’ responses on the results of the internship programQuestion: As a result of your participation in the program, how much did you learn about eachof the following? Activity Average Rating Performing research 4.69 Designing/performing an experiment 4.85 Creating a work plan 4.77 Working as a part of a team 4.85 Writing a technical report

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jin-Lee Kim

tomeet future demands.19 Kelly proposed an approach to general education for civil engineers,which showed that sustainable development is a good theme for a civil engineering program.6Pocock et al. proposed a problem-oriented approach to incorporating sustainable design into aconstruction engineering curriculum.18 Wang shared the experience gained from developing andteaching a sustainability course by identifying sustainability knowledge areas, course planning,and lessons learned from the class. The study recommends that engineering educators need todevelop appropriate class content and effective teaching techniques to prepare students withsustainability knowledge and techniques.25 From the standpoint of the education situation,sustainability

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Harmonie A. Hawley; Brian O'Dell

research). The surveys showed thatthe students perceived that the Service Learning component enhanced their learning experience.In this study, student evaluations from the Spring 2012 semester indicated that students enjoyedthe outdoor lab experiences. Further work needs to be completed to assess student evaluationsand is planned to continue through the Spring 2013 semester.Student EvaluationsThe laboratory practical administered at the end of the semester was the primary assessmentstrategy for the student learning objectives. In the Spring 2012 semester the average grade onthe laboratory practical was an 84%, or a B-average. This shows that more than half of the classunderstood the basic operation of field equipment and that the students were

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Muge Mukaddes Darwish; Ali Nejat

climate was a factor in not enteringengineering. The lack of flexibility, a disdain for the culture, and management seemedunappealing. A lack of interest was also cited as a reason not to enter engineering. Around 20%of the women never planned to enter and pursued other post-graduate degrees. Table 1 and 2summarizes Fouad and Singh’s findings on the percentage of women engineers who never enterengineering based on graduation years and what these women are doing now.Table 1. Percentage of Women who never enter Engineering Based on college graduation year10 year Prior to 1984-1989 1990-1994 1995-1999 2000- 2005-2010 1993 2004 Percentage 7 13

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2013 GSW

Authors

David H. K. Hoe

undertaken in Spring 2012 at our institution to determine the impact of varioustypes of peer interaction exercises on student learning in a Signals and Systems course. This is ajunior-level course in the electrical engineering curriculum, which provides foundationalmaterial for several senior-level classes. This paper is outlined as follows. First, a generalbackground of the Signals and Systems class is described followed by a description of thedifferent types of peer interaction exercises utilized in this study. Second, the methods ofassessment and an analysis of these results are given. The paper concludes with a summary anddiscussion of plans to further improve the use of peer interaction in-class exercises

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2013 GSW

Authors

Azhar Hyas; Uyen H. T. Pham; Madiha M. Hanif; Samir M. Iqbal

development plans and distant educationservices.7-10 We report an appealing, straightforward and productive strategy to outreach K-12students with bio-nano concepts. The students are approached with fundamental conceptssupported by practical demonstration of the core impression through engaging activities, designproblems of common interests and finally visit of the labs. This learning scheme has proved to beextremely helpful for the students to absorb the new concepts in a very exciting and inspiringenvironment. Design and DescriptionThe reported scheme incorporated three key elements to ensure a factual and effectiveassimilation of bio-nano concepts by K-12 students as shown by Figure 1. The first elementinvolved a

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2013 GSW

Authors

Matthew Rivera; Vladimir Santalov; Andres Delagarza; Randall Manteufel

twenty-four hours of studying. A student’s time will quickly burnup and that is still without adding the time to work or do other important activities necessary ineveryday life. These impediments weigh heavily on the fact of graduation succession rates and that ofthe attendance rates of incoming freshman that are willing to take on the journey as an upcomingengineering major. Engineering is known to be a prestigious degree in that it is very difficult topass classes, understand the various topics of engineering, etc. But what should not makestudents deter from the road of engineering is the degree plan set forth by the college ofengineering. In a four year degree, the average semester calls for five to six classes and that iswithout

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2013 GSW

Authors

Xavier Mirza; Amir Ali; Thomas Reyes; Jonathan Zea

. ConclusionWe were successfully able to complete our goal for harvesting the energy using heart vibrationsmodel. Although originally we had planned to work with an actual pacemaker, but unfortunatelythe manufacture had a tampering protection liquid on it which destroys the circuit if opened.After doing a bit more research we came across Volture energy harvesters, but after vigoroustesting we concluded that those harvesters were for higher frequency devices instead of apacemaker. Hence, we designed our own way of harvesting energy using miniSense100piezoelectric sensors that converts the heart’s vibrations and converts them into electrical energymounted parallel with LTC3588-1 that integrates a low-loss full-wave bridge rectifier with ahigh efficiency

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2016 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Hugh Smith

verify that these conditions are handled correctly in their program.We have found this approach to be helpful in teaching networking programming. The studentsrecognize this benefit as shown through both the grades the students receive for the assignmentand their subjective input based on class surveys.In the future we plan on implementing this methodology earlier in the quarter and having thestudents use this methodology for multiple programming assignments. In addition, while itsclear that the students see a benefit in designing their network programs, it is also clear that thisis not translated into them designing in other courses. We are in the process of increasing the useof functional decomposition of problems in earlier programming courses

Conference Session

Investigating Student Pathways to and through Undergraduate and Graduate Programs

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joyce B. Main, Purdue University; Tram Dang, Purdue University; Beata Johnson, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Qian Shi, Purdue University; Cesare Guariniello, Purdue University; Daniel Delaurentis, Purdue University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

Paper ID #40243Why Students Choose STEM: A Study of High School Factors That InfluenceCollege STEM Major ChoiceDr. Joyce B. Main, Purdue University Joyce B. Main is Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She received an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Ph.D. degree in Learning, Teaching, and Social Policy.Tram Dang, Purdue University Tram Dang is a PhD student of Engineering Education at Purdue University as well as a tenured professor of physics and engineering at Santa Monica College (SMC), a two-year transfer-focused

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Larry N. Bland

needed to answer two questions: What are other engineering schools doing to increasetheir enrollment? And what do we need to change in our recruiting process? The search forthese answers prompted my university to fund travel to evaluate other universities’ processes,look for common themes, and develop an action plan for our department. This paper will lookat the methodology of my research, the results and conclusions.Methodology As I considered how to best answer these questions, I decided that qualitative researchmethods were most applicable to this process. Lincoln and Guba (1985) summarize well the keyqualitative process concepts of: natural setting, human instrument, tacit knowledge, qualitativemethods, iterative research, and case

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Edgar C. Clausen; W. Roy Penney; Cole E. Colville; Alison N. Dunn; Noor M. El Qatto; Crystal D. Hall; W. Brent Schulte; Christopher A. von der Mehden

experiments on student learning has not yet been quantified,anecdotally students remarked, after the completion of the exercise, that they really learned a lotfrom these assignments. It is planned to offer this exercise again this fall, at which time thestudents will be surveyed relative to the value of the exercise.NomenclatureAS area for convection, m2Cp specific heat of the aluminum plate or cylinder, J/kg Kg gravitational constant, m/s2h convection heat transfer coefficient, W/m2 KhCORR correlated heat transfer coefficient, W/m2 KhEXP experimental heat transfer coefficient, W/m2 Kk fluid thermal conductivity, W/mKL length

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Melissa Miller; Randall Reynolds

Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education" 72. Starr, Paul, July-August 1996, Computing Our Way to Educational Reform, The American Prospect no. 27: 50-60 [On-line], http://epn.org/prospect/27/27star.html. 12 July 2004. 13 July 2004.3. Turner, Wayne C., et al, Introduction to Industrial and Systems Engineering, Prentice-Hall, 1993.4. Geuting, Manfred: Planning Game and Social Simulation With-in the Education Range, Peter Lang, Frankfurt a.M., 1989.Biographical InformationMELISSA MILLERMelissa Miller is a sixth grade teacher at Lynch Middle School in Farmington, AR. She has

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Wangping Sun; J. M. Zhang; Z. J. Pei

, projectscope, and project plan. After the presentation, the projects were better shaped with theinstructors’ help and each group started implementation. During the implementation period,meetings were held between the instructors and the students whenever it was needed. Theproblems occurring down the road were solved in these meetings. Finally, at the end of thesemester, the students would make the final presentations to report their achievements to thewhole class as well as to their sponsors.The students were enthusiastic and active in these real projects, and were eager to apply whatthey learnt from school to the real world 9. Fig. 4 illustrates an achievement after the studentsimplemented 5S principles (Sort, Straighten, Scrub, Schedule, Score) of