An Effective Way of Teaching Electrical and Computer Engineering Capstone Senior Design Courses for Underrepresented Students

Vewiser J Turner; Sarhan M. Musa

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Conference: 2022 ASEE Gulf Southwest Annual Conference
Location: Prairie View, Texas
Publication Date: March 16, 2022
Start Date: March 16, 2022
End Date: March 18, 2022
Tagged Topic: Diversity
Page Count: 14
DOI: 10.18260/1-2--39159
Permanent URL: https://peer.asee.org/39159
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Vewiser J Turner Jr P.E. Prairie View A&M University

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Summary
I am a retired Executive from ExxonMobil with 35 years of service at this Corporation. During my tenure with ExxonMobil, I have had a number of engineering, planning, business development, project, and operational assignments. I have extensive leadership experience, strategy development knowledge, and ability deliver superior results. I have been accountable for thousands of employees and millions of dollars as a Manager and Executive.

During my tenure with ExxonMobil, I have had assignments or projects that have taken me on numerous occasions to locations such as: Canada, Brazil, Venezuela, Australia, Norway, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Prague, Malaysia, Singapore, and Argentina

Since my retirement from ExxonMobil in March 2017, I have worked and are giving back to my alma mata as an Adjunct Professor teaching Senior Design and Professionalism at Prairie View A&M University, since Fall September 2017.

Education
Bachelor of Science – Electrical Engineering Master of Science – Electrical Engineering
Prairie View A&M University University of Texas - Austin

ExxonMobil Work History
1982 to 2017 – ExxonMobil Corporation; during this time have been assigned 17 different job positions of increasing responsibility from my initial assignment to Executive positions in ExxonMobil’s Oil/Gas Production, Refining, Business Planning, and Information Technology business segments.

Three notable assignments during my career include:

1. Project and Operations Manager for world-wide call center
Responsibilities include: strategy development, business justification, project oversight, staffing, and process development required to implement a follow the sun 24x7 global call center department with locations in Moncton Canada, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia and Curitiba Brazil.

2. Led Technology design team for ExxonMobil’s new Spring, Texas campus (near Woodlands)
Responsibilities include: original concept development, technology recommendations, budget development, gaining Senior Management endorsement and initial project management to deliver state of the art technology and business advantage collaboration capability for the 10,000+ residents at the ExxonMobil campus that opened in 2014. As an aside, many of my team’s recommendations have now been implemented in ExxonMobil affiliates around the world.

3. America’s Operations Manager
Responsibilities include: Manager for ExxonMobil Information Technology operations in Canada, U.S.A, and South America. This geography accounts for over 60% of ExxonMobil’s worldwide locations.

Additional Duty
ExxonMobil Engineering Recruiting Team Captain at UT-Austin (1985 to 1995)
Responsibilities include: working on campus to identify new Engineering recruits

Awards and Honors
Former Member of NSBE Region V advisory board
Former Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering Advisory board
Retired member from the Board of Directors for the Houston A+ Foundation

I am is a registered Professional Engineer in Texas.

I have been recognized with the Distinguished NACME Alumni award and Texas-Ex Distinguished African-American award.

Personal Information
Native Houstonian from 5th Ward
Married – 40 years, two adult children and one moody mini-Schnauzer named Tiger
I enjoy playing the piano and regular working out
Member of St. Monica’s Catholic Church

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Sarhan M. Musa Prairie View A&M University

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Sarhan serves as Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Prairie View A&M University. His research interests are in AI/ML, computational methods in power systems and energy, control systems, computer
networks, and engineering education.

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An Effective Way of Teaching Electrical and Computer Engineering Capstone Senior Design Courses for Underrepresented Students

Vewiser Turner, Sarhan Musa Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Prairie View A&M University

ABSTRACT: Capstone senior design courses in electrical and computer engineering must give the underrepresented students the opportunity to learn about the real world engineering. In electrical and computer engineering programs at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), senior design courses considered as the bridge between the academia classroom and engineering practices in industries. This paper gives a unique and effective way of teaching capstone senior design courses in electrical and computer engineering at PVAMU for underrepresented students. This paper also documents a process where ABET (the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) outcomes can be implemented to enhance students learning. The influence instructors experiences through the combinations of industry and academia play a major and important factors to map the ABET student outcomes and how the projects are evaluated. Other underrepresented universities may benefit from the lessons learned of this work.

Keywords: capstone senior design, ABET, education, underrepresented universities electrical and computer engineering

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Turner, V. J., & Musa, S. M. (2022, March), An Effective Way of Teaching Electrical and Computer Engineering Capstone Senior Design Courses for Underrepresented Students Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Gulf Southwest Annual Conference, Prairie View, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--39159