design.While there are many inclusions of product redesign in papers discussing capstone designcourses, this paper focuses on the use of FMEA in a Design Support Analysis course in anAeronautical Engineering Technology program at a junior level. The course includes lectures,videos, quizzes, and the final project. The goal of the final project is to dramatically reduce lifecycle costs through maintenance reductions, a priori failure identification and analysis, andsubsequent reliability and maintainability improvements. This paper introduces the FMEAprocess as described in SAE ARP5580, presents the FMEA method as completed in the course,and discusses FMEA changes that could be incorporated to improvements to the course.Keywords: standards, FMEA
in engineering capstone design. The authors implementedthis collaboration model with a pilot project three years ago. This model was slightly modifiedbased on the lessons learned and learning outcomes reported by the participating EEP and ECESD teams. This model brought forth some keen observations and lessons, which the authorshave seen as the first step in forming a comprehensive multi-disciplinary design program. Thepreliminary impact of these steps is that 15 to 20% of the ECE SD program’s design projects aremulti-disciplinary (with 6 to 8 faculty members from several departments as mentors) and aregrowing. This growing multi-disciplinary collaboration has also brought in additional annualfunding. This paper shares the structure, phases
) to enhance process or final designSubstantive and structural stages of construct validation for the Sustainable Design Rubric werebased on a study of capstone design at James Madison University. Our goal was to determine theextent to which our theoretically and empirically defined rubric criteria were accessible tostudent audiences. We collected data during Spring 2018 from 51 junior engineering studentsfrom two course sections of capstone design. Students were given a homework assignment thatincluded evaluating their capstone projects with our draft rubric. Each student belonged to one offifteen capstone teams and was assigned to evaluate their projects against a subset of rubriccriteria (approximately two-thirds of the rubric’s 14 criteria
courses complementing the primary major, and atwo-semester capstone project course; 10 courses worth 30 credit hours in total.Figure 1: Program outline. Shaded courses form a required core. Arrows to electives are notdrawn, different core courses are prerequisites for different electives.2.2 Core coursesThe goal of the core courses is to develop fundamental knowledge and skills. All core courseshave non-credit weekly labs associated with them.2.2.1 Introduction to Computer Science IIntroduction to Computer Science I (Intro I) course is designed for students with no priorbackground in computing. It has two central aims. The first aim is to enable the students todevelop computational solutions to practical problems: • Break a
topics?If this capstone sequence is truly as effective as we believe in preparing engineers for their futureemployment, we should be able to see a discernible difference. While we did not set out to createthis capstone as a pedagogical research project, we are discovering daily that the teachingplatform is one that deserves to be studied to fully appreciate and understand the effectiveness ofthe material on student success. References1. J. Dunlosky, K. A. Rawson, E. J. Marsh, M. J. Nathan, and D. T. Willingham, “Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques: Promising Directions From Cognitive and Educational Psychology,” Psychol Sci Public Interest, 2013, Jan, 14(1):4-58, doi: 10.1177
eleven primary objectives where each objective was a mini-project. The objectives built toward a comprehensive design that was a code compliant, graphicaland numerical structural solution to a predetermined architectural design. The desired level oflearning was demonstrating the ability to apply the technical theory to a large complex problem.The instruments were in the form of homework problems and examinations for the introductoryclasses, and mini-projects assembling into a comprehensive solution for the capstone course.Each homework and examination question connected to a single learning objective. Thequestions were in the same format as the National Council of Architectural Registration Board(NCARB) license examination. I have been building
received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma. His research focuses on diverse areas such as: Database Design, Data Structures, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Computer Aided Manufacturing, Data Mining, Data Warehousing, and Machine Learning. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Haptics in AviationAbstractThe purpose of a capstone design project course is to provide graduating senior students theopportunity to demonstrate understanding of the concepts they have learned during their studies.As with many computer science and engineering programs, students of the
credits (6 courses), according to the formula described in Table 1.Required elements of a student’s plan of study include courses in naval hydrodynamics, controland autonomous systems, and an approved capstone project on a naval science & technologytopic, which can be either a full-year senior design elective (which also satisfies the ABETcapstone design experience requirement) or a single-semester independent investigation with afaculty advisor.Curriculum and facilitiesThe primary certificate courses are listed in Table 1, and are arranged into the categories of navalhydrodynamics courses, control & autonomous systems courses, and capstone courses. Courselearning objectives focus on technical knowledge associated with the subject as well
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
programs atthe university (see Appendix A for the rubric). In addition to the institution-wide assessment ofinformation fluency, the Library department conducts its own assessment of information fluencyinstruction on an offsetting cycle from IWAC. In this assessment, librarians review therecommendations from previous IWAC findings and collected interim data to monitor theprogress and effectiveness of implemented changes.During the 2016-17 academic year, IWAC collected artifacts from seniors of all programs toassess this learning outcome. Mechanical Engineering students were assessed at the masterylevel using their senior lab reports, capstone project final reports, and engineering ethics papers.The results of the rubric scoring showed the
memo which also helps develop technical communication skills. The final exam forthe course is a flight test taking maximum payload weight to a specified altitude Design-Build-Fly (DBF) projects are most commonly cornerstone and capstone experiencesfor undergraduate aerospace engineering students as a way to get them excited about the major(cornerstone) and give them a chance to demonstrate all they have learned during their degree(capstone).[1] These hands-on projects develop a wide array of engineering skills and have beenshown to increase retention and engagement in a difficult major.[2] However, there are fewer ofthese experiences present in the middle of a typical aerospace curriculum. Early DBF experiencestypically focus on basic
Professor, School of Engineering Technology Purdue University mshehadi@purdue.eduAbstractFormula-1 (F1) racing cars aerodynamic effects are mainly controlled by the body contours andother aerodynamic elements such as over-body wings. Over-body wings tend to force the cardownwards but would increase the drag force on the car. This capstone project investigated theground effects on a scaled F1 car by testing the down force and drag force with and withoutground effects. To meet the objectives, an 8.8 feet-long (2.93 m) wind tunnel was built by theteam having a 6 × 6 sq.in (3.34 m2) cross-section testing chamber running air at an approximatespeed of 34 miles per hour (mph
relationship of these components. Oncethe students understand the fundamental knowledge of signal and systems and digital and analogcircuits in sophomore and junior years, they learn how to effectively “divide” complex problems,refine the decomposition, and integrate the pieces. Finally, the students compile, synthesize, andapply the various techniques that they have learned in previous courses into actual solutions toreal-world problems through capstone projects.Curriculum integration is a methodology widely used by educators to implement the “divide andconquer” strategy and improve students’ education experience 17, 18. In this project, verticalintegration 19 is employed. The importance and curricular need for vertical integration was firstexpressed
. Fiveyears of implementation and continuous quality improvement following the inaugurationculminated with ABET accreditation in summer 2020. The degree plan features a four-year spiral curriculum. There is an iterative revisiting ofengineering topics, innovation and entrepreneurship subjects, business acumen, and leadershipengineering themes throughout the courses. The first year introduces core concepts in design,innovation, and entrepreneurship, the second year brings engineering modeling and simulations,and measurements to incorporate technical engineering practices, the third year focuses onentrepreneurship, people, and products, and the capstone year drives innovation in practice,through culminating team-driven projects. The
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
peers, the students had the opportunity to develop peer support and stronger interests and motivations for learning. Note that in addition to gaining technical knowledge, the students also learned team collaboration, which is essential not only in course and capstone projects, but also in their future career.(3) Hands-on and real-world oriented: The summer program encouraged the students to solve problems that are practical, meaningful, and with real-world implications. With the help of the faculty mentors, the students had the chance to tinker and dabble various prototypes until the perfection of the final product is reached.(4) It was offered online instead of face-to-face: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our campus was
majors in the industrial setting, were reported. Arduino has beenwidely used for teaching junior and senior level controls [3]-[9] and microprocessor courses [10],computer engineering capstone projects [11], and communication systems courses [12].Arduino has also been widely used in lower-division courses. For freshman engineering students,Arduino was used as a platform to teach programming, design, and measurement [13]. In thiswork, the authors transited the Living with the LAB curriculum, which used the Boe-Bot mobilerobotics and the Basic Stamp microcontroller, to the Arduino platform. In [14], Sullivan et al. usedArduino in an Introduction to Mechanical Engineering course where freshman students designedand implemented a cornerstone project
teaches students to represent and analyze social science data and to use data structures and related algorithms to solve social science problems.● ENGR 122. Our Data Technology course introduces students to R with an emphasis on data analysis techniques, including basic statistics, linear and non-linear curve fitting, clustering, natural language processing, neural networks, databases, Structured Query Language (SQL), and data cleaning and management.● ENGR 195E. The final course involves a capstone project in which students apply their computing skills to solving problems or generating insights in their chosen area of study. Students work in self-selected teams and define their own project topics.The current paper focuses on survey data
- gineering and engineering technology courses. Her research interest is in building conservation of energy and engineering education.Dr. A. Mehran Shahhosseini, Indiana State University A. Mehran Shahhosseini is a Professor in the Department of Applied Engineering and Technology Man- agement and director of the PhD Program in Technology Management at Indiana State University. He has published over 50 articles in different journals and conference proceedings. He has served as an investi- gator for research projects sponsored by National Science Foundation, Ford Motor Company, and the US Army. Before working at Indiana State University, he was a faculty in the University of Louisville for 10 years. He also has over four
, there is a need to incorporate thisinto the curriculum as a focal point of teaching software development to undergraduate computerscience students.BackgroundVariants of agile development have been slowly integrated with traditional approaches intocourses, most commonly in capstone courses and project management courses. (e.g., [3, 4, 5, 6]).However, it is rarely a focal point as most textbooks provide minimal content on Agile[7]. Thereis a need to incorporate Agile into both the content and pedagogy of courses[8]. Agile has beencombined with service-learning[9], but there has not been a lot of work integrating Agile withactive learning techniques. A specific implementation of agile that is inherently and especiallyactive is Scrum. Scrum or a
success of thecourse.1.0 Introduction Designers, builders and owners have been increasingly recognizing the value of having moreintegrated approach in the design process to facilitate development of an overall better buildingperformance (Holland et al. 2010). To be equipped to contribute to and lead integrated design teams, it iscritical that students gain experience during their education in integrated design projects that leveragecollaboration (Messner et al. 2011). In academic settings, strategic locations for integrated design educationare commonly located in capstones and design studios. For engineering students, capstone courses looklargely at technical integration and engineering system development, whereas for architecture
ElementsAbstract:Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) is an extremely important skill formechanical engineering students who will mainly design mechanical devices and components.However, a GD&T course is typically not included in an undergraduate mechanical engineeringcurriculum. In our mechanical engineering curriculum, bits of basic concepts of GD&T arebriefly mentioned or discussed in several different courses. It has been observed in the lastseveral years that some students in their senior capstone project designs still didn’t know how toproperly define assembly dimension tolerances or component dimension tolerances. In the lasttwo years, the authors used one and a half weeks out of a total of a fifteen-week semester toteach GD&T
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
. 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
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
professional network, courses, capstone design projects, and research. We describe thesemechanisms and respective activities to date in Table 1. Table 1: Engineering Exchange for Social Justice (ExSJ) Mechanisms and Activities.Mechanism Description Activities to Date Thematic gatherings on a specified issue like Hosted 2 community forums to bringCommunity “waste”, where community groups, non- various community and universityForums profits, engineers and other professionals, stakeholders together around the theme of faculty, and students are brought together to waste reduction. One was held on campus exchange
learning for undergraduateengineering students at Oral Roberts University. Multiple capstone design project teams havecontributed to the research and development effort and benefitted from the multi-disciplinarysystems engineering environment. The current senior project team consists of five students fromthe mechanical, electrical and computer engineering concentrations working to provide designimprovements/refinements, as well as the development and execution of a testing and validationplan for all aspects of the system.The Stewart platform provides full six-degree-of-freedom motion to the suspended pilot seatthrough revolute joints in response to pilot inputs via a control yoke or joystick. The pilot sensesthis simulated aircraft motion while
agencies, national labs, and non-profits. We have established a purpose-built model to accel- erate Cincinnati as a talent hub and beacon for innovation–in years, not decades.Josefine Fleetwood, Oregon State University American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Virtual Internships: Accelerating Opportunity Through Disruption Abstract Experiential learning programs like internships and capstone projects are high-impact practices that allow engineering students to build a professional network, apply technical skills in a real-world context, and
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
ifthey were hiring students for the summer and if not, provided a research project that could be ofinterest to the student. The LSAMP program provided potential support network contacts anddemonstrated the organization and flow of work within a modern research laboratory. Thesophomore seminar concentrated on communication skills and career selection.During the summer before their junior year, students typically conducted their own researchproject in a Multidisciplinary Engineering Research Fellowship (MERF). The MERF experiencewas crafted to resemble the capstone experience included in most STEM majors and provide aforeshadowing of the same project management and people skills necessary to be successful inindustry [18] [19]. The junior seminar