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Capstone Design

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Shraddha Joshi, James Madison University; Bob Rhoads, Ohio State University; Kris Jaeger-Helton, Northeastern University; Sindia M. Rivera-Jiménez, University of Florida

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Paper ID #33438Making it Work in the Virtual Capstone Climate and Beyond: Project-basedPerspectives Across a Variety of Programs and UniversitiesDr. Shraddha Joshi, James Madison University Dr. Shraddha Joshi is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at James Madison University. She earned her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University with her research focused on understanding the role of requirements in engineering design by novices. At Clemson, Dr. Joshi has worked on multiple industry sponsored research projects (Michelin tweel –low rolling resistance for non-pneumatic tires

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Impact of COVID-19 on Design Education 2

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Joanna Tsenn, Texas A&M University

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Paper ID #32640The Effects of COVID-19 on Mechanical Engineering Senior Capstone De-signStudent Self-efficacy and ProjectsDr. Joanna Tsenn, Texas A&M University Joanna Tsenn is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. She earned her B.S. from the University of Texas at Austin and her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. She coordinates the mechanical engineering senior capstone design projects and teaches senior design lectures and studios. Her research interests include engineering education and engineering design methodology

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Capstone Design

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Jamie Gravell, University of Texas at Dallas; Robert Hart P.E., University of Texas at Dallas; Todd W. Polk, University of Texas at Dallas

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research interests are in multiscale modeling of crystalline material defects such as the interaction of dislocations and grain boundaries with application to enhanced material design for thin film semiconductor devices.Dr. Robert Hart P.E., University of Texas at Dallas Robert Hart is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Uni- versity of Texas at Dallas (UTD). He teaches the capstone design course sequence and serves as a Director for the UTDesign program, which facilitates corporate sponsorship of capstone projects and promotes re- source sharing and cross-disciplinary collaboration among engineering departments. His professional interests are in the areas of engineering

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Capstone Design

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Kimberly B. Demoret P.E., Florida Institute of Technology

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students” to improve learning within the university.based on the idea of students teaching and learning from each other. Student attitudes aboutteaching and learning from peers are explored, along with the relative importance of factors Background and Motivationhighlighted in the Self-Determination Theory (SDT) of intrinsic motivation- autonomy, masteryand relatedness (i.e., feeling a connection to a larger group). The first approach described is the The work in this paper was motivated by a desire to improve student performance in Aerospaceuse of capstone design projects with explicit educational objectives to enhance the hands-on Engineering (AE) capstone design at a mid-sized southeastern private university. At this school

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Capstone Design

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Andrew L. Gillen, University College London; Michael L. Woodrow, University College London; Jose Luis Torero, University College London

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a projectwhere the interactions of the sub-disciplines are complex and where extrinsic variables,associated to professional practice, many times drive decisions.Our work takes place within a larger project to reform the integrated civil engineeringcapstone course. This course is offered as a final year experience for undergraduates, butmasters-level students are also allowed to participate. The course is offered at a large, publicresearch institution in the United Kingdom where professional certification can be attainedvia the accredited undergraduate or master’s programs. The course was implemented morethan a decade ago, and through these years it has been modified several times. In its currentform, the capstone course has been largely

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Capstone Design

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Valerie Vanessa Bracho Perez, Florida International University; Anilegna Nuñez Abreu, Florida International University; Ameen Anwar Khan, Florida International University; Luis Enrique Guardia, Florida International University; Indhira María Hasbún, Florida International University; Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University

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engineering design practice [9], [10], [11], indicating that there is a need to furtherunderstand what factors influence engineering students’ perceptions of design skills.Additionally, there is a gap between what engineering students and practicing engineers believeengineering work, design, and practice to be, demonstrating a need to understand therepresentations students have of engineering, design, and engineering practice [5].The study presented in this paper is part of a larger project exploring the overall studentexperience within a redesigned senior design mechanical engineering capstone course at a large,public, Minority Serving Institution (MSI). This study highlights students’ perceptions of theskills developed, and courses taken throughout

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Impact of COVID-19 on Design Education 2

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Mohamed E. El-Sayed, Eastern Michigan University; Jacqueline A. El-Sayed, American Society for Engineering Education

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product development, vehicle integra- tion, design optimization, lean design, integrated design and manufacturing, and theoretical and applied mechanics, Dr. El-Sayed has over thirty years of industrial, teaching, and research experience, several patents granted, and over a hundred publications in his fields of expertise. He is an award-winning edu- cator, especially in the areas of engineering capstone project courses and online education. Through his teaching and advising he has contributed to the education of hundreds of engineers now engaged in the field of automotive engineering and product development. He is an ABET Commissioner, Team Chair (TC), Program Evaluator (PEV), and IDEAL Scholar. Dr. El-Sayed has also

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Design Methodologies 2

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James Righter, The Citadel; David S. Greenburg, The Citadel; Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel; Nathan John Washuta P.E., The Citadel

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toreturn to QFD throughout their projects in order to learn this cascading process. This paper willassess the use of QFD during the later stages of a Capstone project to amplify the voice of thecustomer and emphasize quality control.Mechanical Engineering students at The Citadel are historically required to develop a house ofquality as part of an assignment generating requirements and constraints. In the beginning of thecapstone project, students are introduced to the structured process of defining the customer’srequirements and the process for transforming them into specific product designs. Students arerequired to establish the voice of the customer (VOC) into the design of their capstone project bycreating, deploying, and analyzing a survey

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Design Teams 1

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Caroline Clay, Arizona State University; Johannah Daschil; Melissa Wood Aleman, James Madison University; Julie S. Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology; Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University

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Design in Engineering Education

- sity. Dr. Nagel joined James Madison University after completing his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Oregon State University. Nagel teaches and performs research related to engineering design. Specifically, through research, Nagel explores how design interventions commonly used to teach design influence stu- dent learning. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Work in Progress: Qualitative Differences in Learning Processes and Skill Development Across Engineering Capstone TeamsAbstractThis work in progress paper presents a study that follows four engineering capstone teams overthe course of their two-year projects. Students on four

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Design Teams 1

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Margaret Garnett Smallwood, University of Texas at Dallas; Robert Hart P.E., University of Texas at Dallas; Todd W. Polk, University of Texas at Dallas

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corporations and operated her own communications consulting firm.Dr. Robert Hart P.E., University of Texas at Dallas Robert Hart is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Uni- versity of Texas at Dallas (UTD). He teaches the capstone design course sequence and serves as a Director for the UTDesign program, which facilitates corporate sponsorship of capstone projects and promotes re- source sharing and cross-disciplinary collaboration among engineering departments. His professional interests are in the areas of engineering education, fluid mechanics, and thermal science. He is an active member of ASME and ASEE and has been a member of the Capstone Design Conference organizing com

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Design Pedagogy

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Leandra Ramos, United States Military Academy; Heather J. Yoshii, United States Military Academy; Kyle Beyer, United States Military Academy; Morgan R. Corliss, United States Military Academy; Brad C. McCoy, United States Military Academy; Aaron T. Hill Jr., United States Military Academy; Kevin P. Arnett P.E., United States Military Academy

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Bachelor of Science degree from West Point, a Master of Science degree in Engineering Management from Missouri S&T, a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech, and a PhD in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. Aaron has served in the military for 23 years as an Engineer Officer with assignments around the world to include Afghanistan, Egypt, and Bosnia- Herzegovina. He is a licensed professional engineer in Virginia and a Project Management Professional. Aaron’s primary areas of research are engineering education, the behavior of steel structures, and blast. Aaron mentors students by serving as an advisor for capstone projects and through service as an Officer

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Design Teams 1

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Siqing Wei, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Amarto Pramanik, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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strategy for instructors. IntroductionThe importance of criterion-based team formation. Assigning students to projects builds thefoundation of the success of a capstone course teaming experience to students and is a tedious andlaborious process for instructors [1]. In this paper, we introduce the design and testing of a newfeature of CATME Team-Maker system to better serve the needs of instructors of project-basedcourses to properly and effectively assign students into teams [2]. Fully integrated with the currentCATME Team Tools, this proposed function is a new type of ranking question allows student torank project lists provided by instructors from a scale of most desired to least desired. Thealgorithm

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Design Teams 2

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Meghan Leigh Fajarillo; Angie Moussa; Yanfen Li, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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common for engineering courses to contain team-based projects ranging fromfirst-year Introduction to Engineering courses to Senior Design/Capstone courses. However,students’ experiences in teams vary greatly and when un-facilitated within large courses,students may have negative experiences which impact their future learning. To overcome thisissue, a new course: Applications in Project Management in Biomedical Engineering wasdeveloped at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. This course is student-led where upper-class students serve as project managers (PMs) to first-year student teams in Introduction toBiomedical Engineering who are conducting semester long design projects. The upper-classstudents learn about a promising career in

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Design Across the Curriculum 2

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Nicholas Mulka, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kinsey Herrin, Georgia Institute of Technology; Amit Shashikant Jariwala, Georgia Institute of Technology

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. This paper discusses the suite of virtual toolsutilized to support senior capstone design courses to manage logistics. We report on studentsatisfaction associated with team formation, project selection, and project presentation aspects.For each of these aspects, an interactive, virtual conferencing platform is utilized in whichparticipants can freely move between small informal groups at any time. This platform'sstructure is designed to mimic a traditional in-person exhibition. Participants can listen topresentations at tables, ask questions, talk individually, and move to a different location at theirdiscretion. The platform relieves the logistical burden of gathering people from geographicallyseparate locations in the same space while

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Design Mental Frameworks

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Devanshi Shah, University of Georgia; Elisabeth Kames, Florida Polytechnic University; Beshoy Morkos, University of Georgia

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particularly is true for seniorcapstone design, where students focus their attention on a single design prompt for up to threeconsecutive semesters. We hypothesized that students possess a natural inclination towards typesof capstone projects, and their choice of a project may impact their motivation levels throughouttheir experience in the design course, which ultimately will impact their performance. Whileeducators have made attempts to influence specific motivational factors to improve studentperformance, the interdependency of motivation factors as they change is unknown. This paperexamines the correlation and the interdependency between student motivation factors. Using theMSLQ questionnaire by Pintrich, we examine five factors of motivation

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Design Across Curriculum 1

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Matthew Lucian Alexander P.E., Texas A&M University - Kingsville; Rajashekar Reddy Mogiligidda, Texas A&M University - Kingsville; David Hicks, Texas A&M University - Kingsville

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three departments in the Frank H.Dotterweich College of Engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville have incorporatedengineering design instruction and hands-on design projects in the last two years as part of NSFgrant award #1928611. A primary objective of this grant is to increase the retention andpersistence of minorities in the engineering programs by incorporating high-impact enrichmentactivities into courses early in the student’s academic career. A logical course to include high-impact activities for first-year students is the introduction to engineering courses in thedepartments, which are titled “Engineering as a Career” (GEEN 1201), within the Frank H.Dotterweich College of Engineering.This work presents the approach used for a

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Impact of COVID-19 on Design Education 2

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Kevin Schmaltz, Western Kentucky University; H. Joel Lenoir, Western Kentucky University

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Paper ID #33239Delivering Meaningful Design-and-Build Experiences to M.E. UnderclassStudents in the Age of COVID-19 and BeyondDr. Kevin Schmaltz, Western Kentucky University Kevin Schmaltz has been at Western Kentucky University for eighteen years, previously serving as the Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Lake Superior State University. Before entering the academic world, he was a project engineer for Shell Oil responsible for the design and installation of oil and gas production facilities for offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. He has a combined 31 years of experience as an engineer in industry and in

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Design Teams 2

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David A. Copp, University of California, Irvine; Alejandra Hormaza Mejia, University of California, Irvine; Mark E. Walter, University of California, Irvine; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine

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and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, 2011. [8] K. Meah, D. Hake, and S. D. Wilkerson, “A multidisciplinary capstone design project to satisfy abet student outcomes,” Education Research International, vol. 2020, 2020. [9] K. Jaeger-Helton, B. Smyser, and H. McManus, “Capstone prepares engineers for the real world, right? abet outcomes and student perceptions,” in 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. ASEE, 2019.[10] R. M. Felder and R. Brent, Teaching and learning STEM: A practical guide. John Wiley & Sons, 2016.[11] M. B. Beigpourian, M. Ohland, and D. Ferguson, “The influence of percentage of female or international students on the psy-chological safety of team,” in American Society for Engineering

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Design Mental Frameworks

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Shraddha Joshi, James Madison University

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. Joshi has worked on multiple industry sponsored research projects (Michelin tweel –low rolling resistance for non-pneumatic tires, IFAI ballast friction testing project). She was actively involved in mentoring and advising Capstone design projects. She has advised over 10 different design projects –BMW, Rotary, TTi and mentored over 100 students. While at Clemson, Dr. Joshi was also awarded endowed teaching fellowship as a part of which she has taught a sophomore class on Foundations of Mechanical Systems for 2 semesters. Dr. Joshi worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Professor Jonathan Cagan at Carnegie Mellon University. She investigated the avenues of internet of things and connected products. While at Carnegie

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Design Teams 1

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Ada Hurst, University of Waterloo; Christine Duong, University of Waterloo; Meagan Flus, University of Waterloo; Gregory Litster, University of Waterloo; Jordan Nickel, University of Waterloo; Aaron Dai, University of Waterloo

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Paper ID #33745Evaluating Peer-led Feedback in Asynchronous Design Critiques: AQuestion-centered ApproachDr. Ada Hurst, University of Waterloo Ada Hurst is a continuing lecturer in the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Water- loo. Her research falls in the areas of design cognition, and design teaching and learning. She regularly teaches capstone design project courses in the Management Engineering program.Ms. Christine Duong, University of Waterloo Christine Duong is a third year student at the University of Waterloo in the Life Science Psychology program.Ms. Meagan Flus, University of Waterloo

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Best in DEED

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Andrew Katz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Isil Anakok, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Umair Shakir, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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requirements of transfer students since they have multiple entry and exit points in theengineering education ecosystem and follow multiple pathways for degree completion [31].After selecting required or offered courses for a particular department, we looked at publiclyavailable titles and descriptions of these courses in each university’s course catalogue for the2019-2020 academic year. We used publicly available information since it is free andconsistently available which enabled us to collect data for all 289 departments included in thisstudy. To identify those required or offered courses where “ethics” and “engineeringdesign/capstone project” are mentioned together, we searched “ethics” (or a grammatical variant)and “engineering design” or

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Impact of COVID-19 on Design Education 2

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C. Richard Compeau Jr, Texas State University; Austin Talley P.E., Texas State University

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Paper ID #32695Work in Progress: Senior Design Day During a Pandemic: Virtually theSame as In-person?Dr. C. Richard Compeau Jr, Texas State University C. Richard Compeau Jr. is a Professor of Practice in the Ingram School of Engineering, and the Electrical Engineering Academic Program Coordinator. He is interested in teaching and curriculum development. His work is typically project-specific for the EE Capstone courses, with an emphasis on applied electro- magnetics.Dr. Austin Talley P.E., Texas State University Dr. Austin Talley is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Ingram School of Engineering at Texas

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Design Pedagogy

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Alexander Pagano, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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, mathematics, and engineering sciences are applied to convert resources into solutions. Engineering design involves identifying opportunities, developing requirements, performing analysis and synthesis, generating multiple solutions, evaluating solutions against requirements, considering risks, and making trade- offs, for the purpose of obtaining a high-quality solution under the given circumstances.” (formatted for emphasis) [19].Engineering design courses, such as cornerstone and capstone courses, can provide students withexperiential learning opportunities which approximate the real-world problems they will faceafter graduation by employing a project-based or problem-based learning (PBL) model [1] (notethat project

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Design Methodologies 2

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James Righter, The Citadel; Joshua D. Summers, Clemson University

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. Joshua D. Summers, Clemson University American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Leadership and communication network identification and analysis with Dependency Structure Matrices in student design teamsAbstractA case study is presented that explores informal leadership emergence within capstone studentdesign teams. The study focused on a ten-person, multi-university, multi-disciplinary, two-semester design project focused on unmanned aircraft solution design and build. This study usesa sociometric survey instrument to determine perceived leadership and communicationrelationships between team members. These relationships are modeled through dependencystructure

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Design Across the Curriculum 2

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Katherine Goodman, University of Colorado Denver; Susan Garver Stirrup, University of Colorado Denver

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opportunities early and throughout an engineering student’s education to practicedesign is essential. Many engineering programs now require first year design experiences, aswell as senior capstone projects. Between those early and late design courses, there can be a“desert of design” -- many dense analytical courses with few structured opportunities for team-based design work. Institutions that manage to build in design across the curriculum have beenhighlighted as groundbreaking (e.g. [2]). To avoid the problem of encapsulation, or only seeingwhat they learn as relevant within a specific course [3], it is important to provide students avariety of contexts where they can apply their design skills. Notice, too, that the problem ofencapsulation also

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Design Teams 2

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Joseph Towles, Stanford University; Jeff Wood, Stanford University

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controls, and engineering design. Joe’s scholarship interests are in the areas of engineering education and neuromuscular biomechanics. Specifically, Joe’s engineering education activities include student-centric course and curricular development; assessment of student learning and engagement; and innovation in approaches to enhance student learning. In neuromuscular biomechanics, Joe’s interests are in restoration of human movement following neuromuscular injury.Mr. Jeff Wood, Stanford University Goal: Make a difference in the world, through development and training of engineers to solve the most pressing problems facing the world today. ME Capstone Course and Lab Project Development Director Jeff is the ME Capstone

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Design Across Curriculum 1

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Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Michael S. Thompson, Bucknell University; Stewart Thomas, Bucknell University

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first year, a course in the second year focusing on measurement andfabrication, a course in the third year to frame technical problems in societal challenges, andculminates with our two-semester, client-driven fourth-year capstone design sequence.The impetus to create a design thread arose from preparation for an ABET visit where weidentified a need for more “systems thinking” within the curriculum. Here systems thinkingrefers to understanding abstraction and its relation to system decomposition and modularity;students having difficulty making engineering evaluations of systems based on data; andstudents’ difficulty transferring skills in testing, measurement, and evaluation from in-class labscenarios to more independent work on projects. We

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Best in DEED

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Andrew Olewnik, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico

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, and problem solving discourse among students, faculty, and practitioners. Dr. Olewnik is also the Director of Experiential Learning for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.Dr. Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a learning scientist and associate professor at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information and Learning Sciences program and in the Chemical and Biological En- gineering Department. She served as Co-PI on an NSF RET Grant and a USDA NIFA grant, and is currently co-PI on three NSF-funded projects in engineering and computer science education, including a Revolutionizing Engineering Departments project. She was selected as a National Academy of Educa

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Design Mental Frameworks

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Andrea MacGregor, James Madison University; Shraddha Joshi, James Madison University

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Design in Engineering Education

. Joshi has worked on multiple industry sponsored research projects (Michelin tweel –low rolling resistance for non-pneumatic tires, IFAI ballast friction testing project). She was actively involved in mentoring and advising Capstone design projects. She has advised over 10 different design projects –BMW, Rotary, TTi and mentored over 100 students. While at Clemson, Dr. Joshi was also awarded endowed teaching fellowship as a part of which she has taught a sophomore class on Foundations of Mechanical Systems for 2 semesters. Dr. Joshi worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Professor Jonathan Cagan at Carnegie Mellon University. She investigated the avenues of internet of things and connected products. While at Carnegie

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Design Pedagogy 2

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Sonia Travaglini, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; Swetha Nittala, Stanford University

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problem solving project-based challenges. Kits providethe opportunity for students to engage in legitimate tasks where they can engage in practices theywill use in the engineering and aerospace industry [4]. Using components, technical tools (bothsoftware and hardware), and safety equipment, employed within the engineering field, thestudents engaged in project-based work throughout the Capstone course. The kits were designedto leverage all the prior technical skills students had developed during their studies in thecurriculum of their engineering degree. To a lesser extent, tools such as Zoom also provided alegitimate engagement to practice professional engineering skills, including collaboration andteam participation via video-conferencing. This