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2010 North Midwest Section

Authors

Byron Garry

Using Webpages to Document and Assess Student Capstone Project Work Byron Garry South Dakota State UniversityAbstractA Capstone course is a requirement for all Engineering Technology programs, under ABET-TAC standards. In the South Dakota State University Electronics Engineering TechnologyCapstone course, many of the ABET-TAC Program Outcomes are assessed using the directevidence of student’s work. The Capstone course has, for several years, required the use ofgroup project webpages, which the students create and maintain during the course of the project,in order to help the student groups collaborate and to document their

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2010 North Midwest Section

Authors

Swaminathan Balachandran; Justin Kile

, supplies, services,and other associated community project expenses. PACCE is also a campfire where thoseinvolved with community-based engagement programs can meet to plan and coordinateawareness, advocacy, training, faculty development, assessment, and communications. Finally, itis a portal through which community and campus entities can meet, plan, and coordinateresources for the mutual benefit of each other. PACCE activities shown in Figure 1 allowstudents to engage with their course materials, take an active role in learning, reflect on theirindividual and collective experiences and develop while completing a team project for acommunity partner (9). Capstone Projects Multidisciplinary

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2010 North Midwest Section

Authors

Harry C. Petersen

provide lab and presentationtime, and one classroom exam. Figure 1 shows the initial plan for course conversion. Figure 1: 400/500 COURSES CONVERTED FOR 06/07 TO 08/09 ACADEMIC YEAR DELIVERY1: First Enrolled Course Title and Credit Face-to-Face Component Online Initial Ready Term TermManufacturing Resource Planning & Capstone Project Required Spring 21Control 2006(4 credits) undergraduateManufacturing Resource Planning & Capstone and Industry

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2010 North Midwest Section

Authors

William R. Peterson; Guanghsu Chang

goal of this course is to prepare the studentto do the research necessary to successfully complete their thesis or alternate plan paper (appliedproject) this requirement became the basis for the course.The students in the class have typically include a mix of majors – manufacturing engineeringtechnology and mechanical engineering – and mix of thesis (all mechanical engineers plus a fewmanufacturing engineering technology student) and applied project papers. The class size hasranged from 12 to 15.The basis for the course has become the proposal the student will need to make prior to startingtheir capstone research project. By using the student’s own research topic we provide relevanceto the research and since they need to submit a proposal soon

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2010 North Midwest Section

Authors

Melanie I. Cashin; Saeed Moaveni

appeared tobackslide and returned to making the same mistakes that their pre-presentation papers exhibited.This may be attributed to lack of time, since they were focused on finishing their capstone andelective senior design projects. Rachel Yarrow’s research suggests that secondary studentsbelieve grammar “gets in the way of writing” and is only important for the final draft 3 . Thisbelief may hold true for postsecondary students as well.Students made the greatest improvements regarding correct use of person. All studentseliminated inappropriate references to you, and most students consistently used first or thirdperson following the intervention. The lack of improvement regarding the use of commasfollowing introductory clauses may be due to the

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2010 North Midwest Section

Authors

B. D. Braaten; D. A. Rogers; R. M. Nelson

lab (Fig. 5). These stations are multi-functional areas. The equipment at these stations can be used for circuit board manufacturing,experiments and simulations. At this point these stations have been very helpful for groups ofundergraduate students in Electrical and Computer Engineering who are completing requiredsenior design projects (i.e., capstone projects). This space has also been used for graduate andundergraduate research in applied electromagnetics. In particular, software programs on thecomputers have been used to simulate the radiation from printed antennas, and the testequipment at these stations has been used to develop and test various flexible sensor networksbeing applied to phased-array antennas.Fig. 5 also shows a very

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2010 North Midwest Section

Authors

D. A. Rogers; O. R. Baiocchi

been awarded after a probationary period of five or six yearsand announced simply by a letter in the mail. However, since faculty abilities and interests varywidely, it was not uncommon for some faculty who were moderately or heavily involved inteaching to also produce some significant research results. Natural curiosity, student interests,capstone projects, or monetary necessity might have been the driving motivations. Many facultymembers and administrators at such institutions were aware of the advantages of producingresearch results simply by observing the work of their peers at larger, research-orienteduniversities. As the years went by, the standards of these institutions were admired andgradually were put in place, at least partially, at