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Challenges to Developing Professional Skills in Undergraduate Chemical Engineers at a Minority Serving University
(American Society for Engineering Education, 2019-04)
Undergraduate engineering students at a minority serving institution present unique challenges for professional skill development. Students in the Chemical Process Design II and III course sequence in chemical engineering ...
A Survey of Digital Systems Curriculum and Pedagogy in Electrical and Computer Engineering Programs
(American Society for Engineering Education, 2019-04)
Digital Systems is one of the basic foundational courses in Electrical and Computer Engineering. One of the challenges in designing and modifying the curriculum for the course is the fast pace of technology change in the ...
The Design and Development of a Multi-Disciplinary Project in Embedded Systems Design
(American Society for Engineering Education, 2019-04)
As has been noted over the past ten years, “The wall between computer science and electrical engineering has kept the potential of embedded systems at bay. It is time to build a new scientific foundation with embedded ...
Heat Transfer Activity for a First-Year Mechanical Engineering Course
(American Society for Engineering Education, 2019-04)
A heat transfer educational activity is designed for
freshman students who declare a mechanical engineering major.
This activity is part of an introductory course given during the
first year to introduce students to ...
Using the Internet of Things to Teach Good Software Engineering Practice to High School Students
(American Society for Engineering Education, 2019-04)
This paper describes a course to introduce high school students
to software engineering in practice using the Internet Of
Things (IoT). IoT devices allow students to get quick, visible
results without watering down ...
Digital Systems Teaching and Research (DSTR) Robot: A Flexible Platform for Education and Applied Research
(American Society for Engineering Education, 2019-04)
The DSTR (pronounced “Disaster”) robot has a strong history of being adaptable to different user’s needs, and there are many opportunities ahead that indicate that the sky, quite literally, is not the limit for this robust ...
Engaged Lecturing in Lecture-Based Courses
(American Society for Engineering Education, 2019-04)
Numerous teaching styles are implemented by
educators to capture the attention and interest of
engineering students. Lecture-based courses can be
significantly less engaging than inductive or project-based
courses, ...
Using Experiential and Collaborative Learning to Promote Careers in Engineering
(American Society for Engineering Education, 2019-04)
This paper discusses the design of the Girls Accelerating and Learning STEM (G.A.L.S.) one-week residential summer camp designed to encourage young girls to pursue engineering careers. Specifically, the camp exposed ...
Do Engineering Students Learn Ethics From an Ethics Course?
(American Society for Engineering Education, 2019-04)
The goal of the present research is to develop machine-assisted methods that can assist in the analysis of students’ written compositions in ethics courses. As part of this research, we analyzed Social Impact Assessment ...
Developing a Graduate Master's Degree Program in Engineering Technology: Overview of Program Objectives, Structure and Impact
(American Society for Engineering Education, 2019-04)
A study was conducted to outline the state of graduate
master’s degree programs in engineering technology that
are currently offered in the nation and particularly in the
state of Texas, and to reflect on their core ...