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Fall 2019 | Volume 7 | Issue 3
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Midyears: A Rube Goldberg Approach to Teaching Dynamics of Machine Elements
Dynamics of Machine Elements is a junior-level course in mechanical engineering that … [Read More...] about Midyears: A Rube Goldberg Approach to Teaching Dynamics of Machine Elements

Midyears: The Middle Years in Engineering: An Effective Transfer Partnership Drives Student Success in STEM
Increasing the number of transfers and graduates in engineering who start at community … [Read More...] about Midyears: The Middle Years in Engineering: An Effective Transfer Partnership Drives Student Success in STEM

Midyears: Transfer Students’ Recommendations for Enhancing Success and Easing the Transition into the Middle Years of Engineering at Receiving Hispanic-Serving Institutions
To make the transfer student pathway viable to meet workforce needs, it is essential to … [Read More...] about Midyears: Transfer Students’ Recommendations for Enhancing Success and Easing the Transition into the Middle Years of Engineering at Receiving Hispanic-Serving Institutions

The Benchtop Hybrid – Using a Long-Term Design Project to Integrate the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum
This paper describes the use of a large-scale, multi-semester design project as a means of … [Read More...] about The Benchtop Hybrid – Using a Long-Term Design Project to Integrate the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

Integrating Open-Source Tools for Embedded Software Teaching: a Case Study
Consumer electronics are creating huge job markets for graduates with the programming … [Read More...] about Integrating Open-Source Tools for Embedded Software Teaching: a Case Study

Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Affordable and Portable Laboratory Kit for an Introductory Control Systems Course
Laboratory kits allow students to take home laboratory equipment to complete experiments … [Read More...] about Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Affordable and Portable Laboratory Kit for an Introductory Control Systems Course

The Rising Sophomore Abroad Program: Early Experiential Learning in Global Engineering
Multiple reports suggest that future engineering work will be conducted by globally … [Read More...] about The Rising Sophomore Abroad Program: Early Experiential Learning in Global Engineering

Enhancing Learning Effectiveness by Implementing Screencasts into Civil Engineering Classroom with Deaf Students
This paper presents a teaching innovation of introducing screencasts into Civil … [Read More...] about Enhancing Learning Effectiveness by Implementing Screencasts into Civil Engineering Classroom with Deaf Students

Description and Mixed Methods Evaluation of a Novel Hardware-Based Introductory Programming Course
This paper compares an innovative approach to teaching a required introductory C … [Read More...] about Description and Mixed Methods Evaluation of a Novel Hardware-Based Introductory Programming Course

Learning Calculus through PBL in an Industrial Engineering and Management Program – A Seven-Year Study
This paper aims to study ways of contributing to the development of Calculus through a … [Read More...] about Learning Calculus through PBL in an Industrial Engineering and Management Program – A Seven-Year Study

Building a Local Curricular Diffusion Model based on a Gamified Homework Platform in First Year Engineering: A Case Study
Implementation of educational innovations on a local scale requires consideration of a … [Read More...] about Building a Local Curricular Diffusion Model based on a Gamified Homework Platform in First Year Engineering: A Case Study

A Mobile Workshop Model for Equitable Making with High School Aged Youth
There is growing interest in the engineering education community in making and the Maker … [Read More...] about A Mobile Workshop Model for Equitable Making with High School Aged Youth

From The Looking Ahead Editor
Advances in Engineering Education is expanding our content to now include short, … [Read More...] about From The Looking Ahead Editor

Looking Ahead: Cultivating an Entrepreneurial Mindset: An Interdisciplinary Approach Using Drones
A central pedagogical goal at the University of San Diego is to educate Changemakers: … [Read More...] about Looking Ahead: Cultivating an Entrepreneurial Mindset: An Interdisciplinary Approach Using Drones

Looking Ahead: Exploring Liberatory Makerspaces: Preliminary Results and Future Directions
Since the mid-2000s, the U.S. maker movement has heralded the ‘democratization’ of tools an … [Read More...] about Looking Ahead: Exploring Liberatory Makerspaces: Preliminary Results and Future Directions