15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE)
Boston, Massachusetts
July 28, 2024
July 28, 2024
July 30, 2024
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10.18260/1-2--48599
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Dr. Feinauer is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Military Institute. His scholarly work spans a number of areas related to engineering education, including the first-year engineering experience, incorporating innovation and entrepreneurship practice in the engineering classroom, and P-12 engineering outreach. Additionally, he has research experience in the areas of automation and control theory, system identification, machine learning, and energy resilience. He holds a PhD and BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kentucky.
Michael Cross is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, teaching classes in the areas of circuits, electronics, energy systems, and engineering design. Cross received degrees from the Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Vermont.
Majd Khalaf is a senior undergraduate student at Norwich University, majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is deeply passionate about DevOps engineering and machine learning. Majd has contributed to various projects and research in natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision. Currently, he is a Site Reliability Engineering intern at Walmart ASR and a Senior AI Researcher at Norwich University's Artificial Intelligence Center.
Successful engagement and collaboration on projects where members of the team work remotely is an essential skill for students to develop. Having students collaborate with partners from another institution can add elements of reality and relevance to a class project, creating further opportunities for instructors to prepare students for the expectations of the modern workplace. This paper details the design and execution of a class project for first-year Electrical and Computer Engineering students, with project teams comprised of students from two institutions. While the organization effort is slightly higher for the instructors than other course projects, the observed value to the students is notable. Students report more communication, coordination, and teaming difficulties on this project than they do for other course projects, but they also report satisfaction and a sense of accomplishment, and their responses to end-of-project surveys show a maturing of their understanding of effective teaming skills.
Feinauer, D. M., & Cross, M., & Al Bataineh, A., & Olukanni, T. C., & Khalaf, M. (2024, July), Full Paper: Future-Ready Students: Providing Opportunities for Remote Collaboration on an Engineering Design Project Paper presented at 15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts. 10.18260/1-2--48599
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