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STEAM student recruitment through a pre-college customer-centric design enrichment experience (WIP)

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Minneapolis, MN

Publication Date

August 23, 2022

Start Date

June 26, 2022

End Date

June 29, 2022

Conference Session

DEED Technical Session 2: Postcard Session

Page Count

11

DOI

10.18260/1-2--41452

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https://peer.asee.org/41452

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Davor Copic United States Coast Guard Academy

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Dr. Davor Copic is a Lecturer in Engineering at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. His engineering education research focuses on developing quantitative techniques for assessing design activity outcomes and developing course collaboration policy underpinned by social network analysis. His current projects and capstones include 3D printing of flexible materials and drone-based surface water sampling. He previously taught at the University of Cambridge and can be reached at davor.copic@uscga.edu.

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Nathan Barnes United States Coast Guard Academy

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LCDR Nathan Barnes is a Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Rotating Military Instructor at the United States Coast Guard Academy. He is the course coordinator for the cadet Ship Propulsion Design Capstone course and teaches engineering, damage control, and stability to Prospective Commanding and Executive Officers. His previous jobs include Engineer Officer aboard the USCGC ACTIVE, Student Engineer aboard the USCGC TAHOMA, and Marine Inspector at Coast Guard Sector New York. He can be reached at Nathan.Barnes@uscg.mil.

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Joshua Pennington United States Coast Guard Academy

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Alexandria Bass

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Joseph Camean United States Coast Guard Academy

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Joseph F. Camean, P.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy Mechanical Engineering Senior Professional Engineer and Lecturer. He brings experiential knowledge to Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Ships and Maritime Systems and Laboratories in Engineering Experimentation, Machine Design, Electric Circuits and Machines. Starting out as a USCG licensed Merchant Marine Officer and U.S. Navy Reserve officer, he progressed into long time ownership of van Zelm Engineers, Connecticut’s largest Mechanical and Electrical engineering firm. After retiring from his practice, he joined the faculty of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, after previously serving as an Adjunct Professor at Central Connecticut State University.

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Richard Freeman United States Coast Guard Academy

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Abstract

Pre-college enrichment programs offered by universities and colleges introduce high school students to the experience of college life and serve as a recruiting tool for institutions. The United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) has developed the Academy Introduction Mission (AIM), an immersive one-week program that showcases life as a cadet at the academy and introduces the nine majors offered, for this purpose. USCGA’s engineering department has developed and refined an exercise teaching customer-centric design focused on building and racing of one-foot-long boats which was delivered to over 600 prospective high school juniors. Similar exercises were previously delivered during freshmen summer initiation at the USCGA, and as a refresher exercise for prospective commanding and executive officers. The learning objectives, deliverables, outcomes, and the rationale for each of these related exercises are compared and discussed. Work-in-progress results include instructor feedback on learning objective outcomes. Further quantitative assessment of the AIM engineering design activity is based on student work product and includes co-occurrence mapping of key-features of the boat hull design and manufacturing approaches against performance metrics. Novelty and uniqueness of designs are also assessed and used as control for future efforts to increase design diversity. Conclusions and recommendations are provided on expanding learning objectives to include iteration and manufacturing and a more expansive data collection and analysis scheme.

Copic, D., & Barnes, N., & Pennington, J., & Bass, A., & Camean, J., & Freeman, R. (2022, August), STEAM student recruitment through a pre-college customer-centric design enrichment experience (WIP) Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41452

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