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Ruth Camille Pflueger, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College; Jonathan Alan Meckley, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College

additionalwriting support to students in multiple courses and provide a bridge for them to connect writingconcepts learned in composition courses and their technical reports.WATTS was developed in a junior-level circuit analysis course, where students were completingthe same lab and writing individual reports. This paper focuses on a senior capstone course thatutilizes concepts taught in previous courses to prepare students to complete an independent teamresearch or design project. Projects are unique, usually based on the needs of an industrialsponsor, and are completed over three consecutive semesters. Each semester, teams write areport based on their activities during that semester, with a comprehensive report in the finalsemester.The multi-semester

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Emad Y Tanbour, Eastern Michigan University; Suleiman A. Ashur, Eastern Michigan University; Ann Blakeslee, Eastern Michigan University

addition, students produce areport when they finish their co-op or internship assignments.The incorporation of project-based learning into engineering education has been found to be oneof the most impactful approaches for developing and applying skills to help students becomeindependent and proficient engineers [20] [22]. A project-based, hands-on approach teachesstudents to think critically and work independently. Because of this, and because of the emphasisplaced on writing reports in these courses, the capstone course seemed ideally suited for thewriting-intensive designation. Additionally, the writing assigned in the capstone course followsthe five steps to successful writing listed in the Handbook of Technical Writing: 1 Preparation, 2

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Emad Y Tanbour, Eastern Michigan University -School of Engineering

, thermo-fluid andenergy systems, and devices that introduce a new problem-solving approach or innovate acapability that improves people’s life. Students are allowed to select from a set of department-proposed and industry-sponsored projects. Students work in teams of three to five members,depending on the expected scope of the capstone project. The establishment of the 1500 squarefeet VR Lab in the College enhances the access to research tools in VR field for both teachingand research, hence fulfilling one part of the priorities of the College. The VR Lab attractedexternal equipment funding that facilitated expanding the three-wall system into 4-wall system.The Mechanical Engineering program is a fairly new program and is growing very rapidly. It

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Carmen Cioc, The University of Toledo; Sorin Cioc, The University of Toledo; Josh Landel, The University of Toledo; Ethan Dunham, The University of Toledo

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Report. The course culminateswith a Senior Design and Undergraduate Research Expo at the term’s end. The Expo, open to thepublic, displays projects not only from the ET department, but also from the College’s sciencedepartments.The project: The Engine Power Cycle Interface was developed by a team of six studentsenrolled in a Senior Technology Capstone course during the fall 2021 semester. The team hadone faculty advisor as mentor. The overall project’s goal was to design and program a simple andeasy to use graphical user interface (GUI) that will assist future MET students enrolled in theApplied Thermodynamics course in their learning of several gas power cycles. From theinstructor’s point of view, the software might serve as an additional

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Robert Michael P.E., Gannon University; David Gee, Gannon University; Paul Kummannoor Benny, Gannon University, Erie, Pennsylvania; Peter Caulfield

course design projects are used to help students gain knowledge of high-level engineering software programs through SDL while satisfying ABET outcome 7 to “acquire new knowledge.” c. References [3 – 6] detail various senior capstone projects whereby groups of students are partnered with industry and faculty to solve large, complex engineering problems.2. The Gearbox Design Projects Incorporated into Machine Design [7]: The gearbox design project is discussed in detail in reference [7]. A brief overview will beprovided here. This is the second of two design projects assigned in machine design (usuallyhalfway through the semester). Design of machine elements are incorporated into

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Wesley Carpenter, The University of Akron

place in the latteryears of a 4-year MET program, this research can provide a baseline understanding of how METstudents approach design problems so better strategies can be developed to provide appropriatescaffolding as design skills are taught throughout the program.Introduction Mourtos emphasizes the importance of engineering design by considering design as theheart of engineering [1]. Design capstone experiences have been a staple of engineering andengineering technology programs and are excellent tools for bringing practical engineering intothe curriculum [2], however, typically such projects have been in the final year of typicalundergraduate program. Recently however, a resurgence in first-year, or cornerstone engineeringdesign

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Stephany Coffman-Wolph, Ohio Northern University; Alexander James Diehl; Timothy Huff, Ohio Northern University; Tyler Justin Hammel

@onu.eduIntroductionThe objective of this capstone is to communicate a professor’s status outside of their office tostudents and other faculty members. Students will arrive at a professor’s office to find thatprofessor missing or busy for an unknown reason and an unknown amount of time. Our designwill allow for a professor to display their whereabouts, thus alleviating the issue. The display mustbe readable and fit within the constraining area of their office window. Other portions of productdesign such as charge frequency and energy requirements were also factored into the decisionmatrix.Competitors to this product include what is currently being used by our clients: sticky notes,whiteboards, and papers to convey messages about the professor’s whereabouts

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Joaquin Rodriguez, University of Pittsburgh; April Dukes, University of Pittsburgh; John Andrew Keith, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering

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oxidative stress in in vitro models of Parkinson’s disease. During her prior graduate and postdoctoral work in neurodegeneration, April mentored several undergraduate, graduate, and clinical researchers and developed new methods for imaging and tracking mitochondria from living zebrafish neurons. In her work for the EERC and Pitt-CIRTL, April Dukes collaborates on educational research projects and facilitates professional development (PD) on instructional and mentoring best practices for current and future STEM faculty. As an adjunct instructor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Univer- sity of Pittsburgh since 2009 and an instructor for CIRTL Network and Pitt-CIRTL local programming since 2016, April is

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Johnathan Rettig; Tyler John Backs, Ohio Northern Univeristy

Paper ID #36069Van-Life ShowerMr. Johnathan RettigMr. Tyler John Backs, Ohio Northern Univeristy Mechanical Engineering Major American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Van Life ShowerTyler Backs, Johnathan Rettig, Chase Leonard, Zachary MontgomeryAbstractWet Roads is a senior design capstone team. The purpose of Wet Roads is to design and create ashower system for camper van travelers. In recent years the amount of people buying vans andconverting them into spaces for simultaneous traveling and living, or “Van-Life”, has increaseddramatically. With this increase, the

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Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University

; Research, iii. CSCM 1030 Public Speaking & Persuasion, iv. CSCM 2040 Professional Communications in Workplace.These 4 communication skills courses lay the foundation for a segment of student personaleffectiveness, also allowing students to apply what they learned in those 4 courses in engineeringcoursework where communication skills are needed, i.e. for researching and developing aresearch agenda, writing a technical paper or a capstone project report, or prepare a provisionalpatent application. These engineering courses are deemed to be communication intensive besideserving their own purposes for technical development of prospective engineers. Table 3 also Proceedings of the 2022 ASEE North Central Section Conference