Upreti, G., & Bauer, D., & Zhou, J. (2022, August), Work in Progress: Rethinking two separate engineering and mathematics capstone courses at a small liberal arts university  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--40726

\bibitem{asee_peer_40726}
  Upreti, G., \& Bauer, D., \& Zhou, J. (2022, August), \emph{Work in Progress: Rethinking two separate engineering and mathematics capstone courses at a small liberal arts university}
  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN.
  10.18260/1-2--40726

Girish Upreti, Denise Bauer, and Jie Zhou.  "Work in Progress: Rethinking two separate engineering and mathematics capstone courses at a small liberal arts university".  2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August.  ASEE Conferences, 2022.  https://strategy.asee.org/40726 Internet.  28 Jul, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_40726}
  Girish Upreti, Denise Bauer, and Jie Zhou.
  "Work in Progress: Rethinking two separate engineering and mathematics capstone courses at a small liberal arts university".
  \emph{2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2022.
  https://strategy.asee.org/40726 Internet.  28 Jul, 2024

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AB  - Almost all engineering programs have a capstone course requirement where students apply their content knowledge to a culminating open-ended problem-solving experience. Due to the much lower student enrollment number in small liberal arts colleges/universities than public universities, the class size of capstone courses is much smaller, which leads to potential problems in efficiency and sustainability. The Engineering Department and the Mathematics Department at Methodist University decided to collaboratively redesign the capstone courses to enhance the student re-search experience and efficiency of resources. The result is a joint capstone sequence consisting of two 2-credit courses for each department. Unlike the traditional two back-to-back courses in the senior year, our first course in the sequence will be in the spring of the junior year and the second is in the spring of the senior year; both will be offered at the exact same time so that joint sessions can be held for all students in the capstone courses. The idea is to create a learning envi-ronment where senior students become mentors, and junior students can learn the expectations and requirements from observing the seniors during joint sessions. The joint sessions across the two departments will also provide the opportunity for the double majors to work directly with students from both departments. The capstone course during the junior year will simulate the ap-proach of the senior capstone course and provide engineering design and mathematic problem-solving experiences so that students are able to identify potential project topics and create client contacts earlier in the process as well as connect additional course content directly to the projects. Since the new capstone sequence was approved by both departments only recently, it will be a few years before the implementation of the sequence, which allows us to collect and analyze more qualitative data in the current capstone courses before finalizing the joint capstone se-quence. In the future, qualitative data will be collected from the joint capstone sequence to com-pare students’ experiences in the classroom as well as their career preparation.
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