Conference Session

Capstone Design III

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Chang, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Jessica Townsend, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2008-1987: A BLANK SLATE: CREATING A NEW SENIOR ENGINEERINGCAPSTONE EXPERIENCEMark Chang, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Mark L. Chang is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering.Jessica Townsend, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Jessica Townsend is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. Page 13.8.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 A Blank Slate: Creating a New Senior Engineering Capstone

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design in the Classroom

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tongele Tongele, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

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Design in Engineering Education

13.1397.7 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Figure 7 Degree of Importance Employers Give to these Qualities It does not look like most employers and industry leaders consider the knowledge ofcodes and standards as essential requirement for hiring engineers and expecting best performanceout of them. With this in mind, the best ways to use in exposing students to codes and standardsmay widely vary in importance and urgency from one program to another.5. Toward Creating Best Practices Figure 8 is an illustration of elements to be taken

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Masten, McMaster University; Robert Fleisig, McMaster University

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Design in Engineering Education

design projects is that first-year students lack technical Page 13.494.6sophistication. With this in mind, the first set of seven design projects was developed inconjunction with Engineers Without Borders (Canada). These projects involved relatively low-tech engineering solutions that would benefit disadvantaged communities in developingcountries. The remote setting also emphasized the importance of understanding the conceptualside of design. Students were required to understand the client needs, opportunities, and benefitsand make realistic conclusions about the cost, feasibility, and impact on the community.In previous years, during the second

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven Shooter, Bucknell University

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Design in Engineering Education

forimprovement. The students dissect several staplers on the market and then use design methodsto suggest a new stapler to satisfy a potential market. The module follows the case of Accentra,Inc. who has seen considerable market success through the launch of their PaperPro line ofergonomic staplers. The laboratory exercises are supplemented with instructional video podcaststhat asynchronously guide the students through the product dissections.IntroductionProduct dissection has been used in a variety of ways to successfully engage engineeringstudents in their learning. Intellectual and physical activities such as dissection help to anchorknowledge and practice of engineering in the minds of students6,7 (Sheppard, 1992 a,b) and hasbeen successfully used

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jonathan Weaver, University of Detroit Mercy; Karim Muci-Küchler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2008-1195: IN-CLASS CREATIVITY EXERCISES FOR ENGINEERINGSTUDENTSJonathan Weaver, University of Detroit MercyKarim Muci-Küchler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Page 13.723.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 In-Class Creativity Exercises for Engineering StudentsAbstractThe flattening of the world is rejuvenating the call for engineering educators to better developstudents that are creative and innovative so that they can have a clear advantage in a verycompetitive global economy. Much has been written and many exercises developed in responseto this calling. Unfortunately, while many such exercises are fun and engaging and serve

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vukica Jovanovic, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mileta Tomovic, Purdue University; Richard Mark French, Purdue University

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2008-2278: COLLABORATIVE PRODUCT DESIGN AND REALIZATION INMECHANICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY CURRICULAVukica Jovanovic, Purdue University, West Lafayette Vukica Jovanovic began her academic career in 2001 when she graduated at University of Novi Sad, majoring in Industrial Engineering and Management, Minor in Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation. She was working as Graduate Research and Teaching assistant and lectured various courses at departments of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics from 2001 until 2006. She was an active member European organizing committee of student robotic contest Eurobot and chief of Eurobot organizing committee of Serbian student

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Potpourri

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Serdar Tumkor, Stevens Intitute of Technology; Kishore Pochiraju, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

sketches. Parametric solidmodeling has following advantages: 1) Accurate description of the part/concept/idea 2) Easier to find errors and solution 3) Fast calculations of the consequences and simulation 4) Easy modification of the model 5) Direct data transfer for the CAM.Currently, the ability to use a 3D parametric solid modeling software package has become one ofthe standard tools acquired by mechanical engineering graduates. 3D solid modeling allowsdesigner to rotate, zoom or pan the graphics on the screen. These visual objects give himimmediate and satisfactory feedback of his work. But, again some feeling is missing. Sinceaesthetical success of the design needs to be verified by ones mind, nothing can

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marcia Friesen, University of Manitoba

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Design in Engineering Education

receptive to these fundamental views ofconstructivism applied to student learning.However, forms of constructivism also contend that meaning is subjective rather than objective,and that each individual is actively engaged in constructing their own version of reality, termedknowledge4. This aspect of constructivism – aligned with Kuhn’s view of the world as mind-dependent, or our own view of our specific niche – sees knowledge as a self-organized constructthat varies from individual to individual. Subjectivity and multiple realities strike engineers asinappropriate to the professional interests of engineering and are not part of the prevailingworldview of engineering knowledge and scholarship. Engineering science is deeply embeddedin a framework of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design in the Classroom

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dominic Halsmer, Oral Roberts University; Nicholas Halsmer, Oral Roberts University; Robert Johnson, Oral Roberts University; James Wanjiku, Oral Roberts University

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Design in Engineering Education

engineering have enjoyed enormous success. The maturity of these fields hasenabled current practitioners to deliver a potential productivity and quality of life which washardly dreamed of a hundred years ago. Nature has proven to be incredibly bountiful andprofoundly deep in providing mankind with an array of challenging puzzles to solve. Humanmental capacity and insatiable curiosity make it difficult to resist these mysteries, especially after Page 13.1201.2repeatedly experiencing how their unraveling results in such incredible satisfaction, fruitfulness,and profitability1,2. Could it be that the realm of nature and the human mind were, in some

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Willis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; James Conrad, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2008-1741: SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT: A ROBOTIC SYSTEM USINGSTEREOSCOPIC CAMERAS FOR NAVIGATIONAndrew Willis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Andrew Willis is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He received his B.Sc. in Computer Science and B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic University in Worcester, Massachusetts. After working in industry for four years, Andrew attended graduate school at Brown University where he obtained a Sc.M. in Applied Mathematics and a Sc.M. in Electrical Engineering completing a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences in 2004. He is a member of the ASEE, IEEE

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Widmann, California Polytechnic State University

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2008-2729: ENHANCEMENT OF CAPSTONE INDUSTRY SPONSOREDSENIOR PROJECTS THROUGH TEAM-BASED, PRODUCT REALIZATIONACTIVITIESJames Widmann, California Polytechnic State University Jim Widmann is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He received his Ph.D. in 1994 from Stanford University. Currently he teaches mechanics and design courses. He conducts research in the areas of design optimization, machine design, fluid power control and engineering education. Page 13.534.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Enhancement of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design in the Classroom

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Wesner, Carnegie Mellon University; Michael Bigrigg, Carnegie Mellon University

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2008-2759: EFFECT OF PROJECT DEFINITION ON THE SUCCESS OFSTUDENT TEAM DESIGN PROJECTSJohn Wesner, Carnegie Mellon UniversityMichael Bigrigg, Carnegie Mellon University Page 13.465.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Effect of Project Definition On the Success of Student Team Design ProjectsAbstractStudent teams carrying out sponsored engineering design projects achieve widely varying resultsin a single semester, ranging from research without any real design proposal, through one ormore paper proposals, all the way to a functional prototype. Comparing team results with theclarity with which the sponsor defined the

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Schrage, Georgia Institute of Technology; Michael Richey, The Boeing Company; Kenneth McPherson, The Boeing Company; Xavier Fouger, Dassault Systemes; Cedric Simard, Dassault Systemes

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Design in Engineering Education

to make curricula morerelevant to professional practice. Industry depends on the ability to hire graduates withdeep technical and broad professional skills.The following sections will describe a university’s program, which was developed withthe above studies in mind; as well as how a university/industry partnership creates arobust design program for its engineering students.Boeing LTD and Dassault Systemes New Educational Research Program InitiativeBoeing LTD’s training and engineering group and Dassault Systemes have initiated aneducational and research proposal for globalization, PLM, and Engineering Education.This is based on their combined knowledge and expertise of global teaming, "system ofsystems," and PLM which accumulated in the

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed El-Sayed, Kettering University; Steven Beyerlein, University of Idaho

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2008-2629: DESIGN AND INTEGRATION OF A CAPSTONE COURSE TOACHIEVE PROGRAM OUTCOMESMohamed El-Sayed, Kettering University Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Hybrid Vehicles Integration Laboratory. He has been teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level for over 30 years. He teaches Machine Design, Automotive Design, Machine Design Capstone, Automotive Design Capstone, Design Optimization, Advanced Mechanics of Materials, linear and Nonlinear Finite Element analysis, and Design for manufacturability. He has been a PI and Co-PI on several research grants and a consultant to several engineering corporations. He has over seventy research papers in addition to several

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karim Muci-Küchler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Jonathan Weaver, University of Detroit Mercy; Daniel Dolan, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2008-1264: TEACHING CONCEPT GENERATION METHODOLOGIES INPRODUCT DEVELOPMENT COURSES AND SENIOR DESIGN PROJECTSKarim Muci-Küchler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Karim Muci-Küchler is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Before joining SDSM&T, he was an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Detroit Mercy. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Iowa State University in 1992. His main interest areas include Computational Mechanics, Solid Mechanics, and Product Design and Development. He has taught several different courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, has over 30 technical