weekly basis. In addition to this, an end of semester reflection is assignedto review the course experience upon its conclusion.Capstone DesignEPICS projects are well-matched to the revised ABET criteria and many of our projects presentopportunities to achieve the criteria required for senior design. However, the variation in EPICSstudent’s project application spaces and interaction points within the design process of the largeroverall program present challenges in insuring appropriateness of individual fit for capstonedesign. EPICS projects can currently be used for capstone design in Electrical, Computer,Multidisciplinary, or Environmental and Ecological Engineering, but each program’s departmentfollows a slightly different process for
10-15 minutes to act out. Immediately after a scene, everyone gives feedback to the HSRP on his/her performance, for example, what they did well, i.e., “shine” behaviors vs. not well, i.e., “polish” behavior. Part C takes place during the fall semester, in which students submit a series of assignments (Table 2) and receive feedback from instructors via an online learning management platform (Canvas). Most of the assignments are designed to help students with their Capstone projects: a required final course of this graduate program, in which they must individually conductevidence-based research, identify, and solve an industrial problem that would bring significantimpact to an organization. The Capstone project is both
configurations made toimprove air flow is presented. The perspectives for students and faculty from the University ofGeorgia are presented. The student main engineer took the lead to formulate this paper. Fiveother students that worked on the project were unable to engage in writing the paper.Introduction The Formula SAE activities at the University of Georgia are recognized as a platform thatprovides experiential learning to its undergraduate students. Most of the students in the FormulaSAE program come from engineering disciplines. Students range from Freshmen to Seniors.Freshmen, Sophomores, and Juniors participate as non-capstone members. Senior studentsmostly participate as cap-stone members. Regardless of one’s category, the students design
as to the limits of engineering naturalsystems. To address our future intertwined with biotechnology and its ethical, legal,and social implications, we must develop curricula that addresses the role ofacademic, research, and industrial scientists in these debates and how to addresssocietal concerns with emergent technologies. In BME 590L/490L: BiotechnologyDesign I/II, a two-semester senior/master’s capstone design course at DukeUniversity, students prepare for academic and commercial development ofbiological products with topics in synthetic biology, fermentation, intellectualproperty, and regulatory controls. Lectures, discussions, and laboratory exercisesprepare students for independent design projects that are presented in the fall
performance using computational software.The first generation of CHRD has been designed, fabricated, and tested successfully. A small rocketmotor approximately two inches in diameter and ten inches long was fired multiple times during thespring of 2021, with preliminary results of rocket performance being documented. The current rocketprototype was the product of two consecutive academic years of senior capstone teams’ efforts. Thedesign, fabrication, and testing were supervised by a Mechanical Engineering faculty, who assumed therole of project manager and chief investigator.2 IntroductionNumerous examples of student projects focused on hybrid fuel rocket motors and hybrid rocket motorpowered flight vehicles are identified in the literature. The
Design andFabrication. This course reinforces CAD skills using SolidWorks, teaches students GD&T andalso trains students on the manual mill, manual lathe and CNC mill. Over 150 students take thecourse every semester (fall and spring).Historically, this course was taught as units, teaching students CAD skills, then GD&T and thenmachining, with an end of semester project that was tied all units together. Students weremissing the connection between these units as seen through their final drawing packages.Average grades on final drawing packages was around a 75% based on several best practicesidentified by a core team of faculty. Additionally, during Senior Capstone, students werestruggling to create drawing packages that clients were happy
because the primary responsibilityfor the course resided in another department (e.g., calculus).Four existing courses within the program were identified for significant modification. Duringthe outcomes review, we determined that these existing courses deliver some critical outcomes,but lacked focus, often repeating concepts covered in other classes. These courses also providean opportunity to integrate concepts covered in other courses.Three integrated project-based courses have been added to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd years of ourcurriculum. The existing 4th year capstone course will be modified to account for the newsequence of project-based courses. The project-based courses will be designed to providestudents with repeated opportunities to
allow individualsand groups to share spaces and utilize hardware and software tools to create knowledge.6Design and Innovation CenterThe College of Technology at Purdue Northwest has established the David Roberts Center forInnovation and Design (CID). Significant support for the center was from an alumnus for whomthe center is named. This technology-driven facility (4800 sq.ft.) includes industry-standardsoftware, high-performance computing hardware and interactive multimedia equipment thatprovide students the means to focus on synergistic project-based designs. This Center hasprograms optimizing a 3M principle: Mobile, Modular and Maintainable.All PNW technology students are required to complete a capstone design project as part oftheir degree
. Introduction to Legal and Ethical Issues in Cybersecurity,5. Special Topics in Cybersecurity,6. Senior (Capstone) project in CybersecurityWe offered two cybersecurity courses for all non-Computer Science (CS) majors at the university during2020-21 academic year with very low enrollment. At this moment, we have only three students pursuingthis Cybersecurity for All minor. We are working with various department chairs and college deans andwe expect this enrollment to grow. Also, we offered all courses for our cybersecurity concentration forCS majors, and currently approximately 30 students pursuing the Cybersecurity concentration. Also, wehave graduated 15 students from this concentration.Goal 3: Conduct Cybersecurity professional development activities
) History (4) Physics Dynamics Methods of Estimating (20) Example Social Science (21) (8) Constructio Accounting (11) Capstone (10) Algebra Courses Structural n (8) Construction (15) Introduction (15) (Frequenc Analysis Heavy Project Senior to Engineering Calculus y) (10) Constructio Management Project (9) (10) (21
Powered by www.slayte.com TeachingEngineerstoFormandShareVision David Novick, Meagan Kendall, Melanie Anne Realyvasquez, Sebastian Palacios Department of Engineering Education and Leadership The University of Texas at El Paso AbstractThis paper reports a project teaching engineering students the leadership skills of forming andsharing vision. We describe the skills of forming and sharing vision, review related learningoutcomes, and describe six teaching modules delivered in a senior capstone course sequence inthe 2020-21 and 2021-22 academic years at the University of Texas at El Paso, a Hispanic-serving R1 university. To assess the
engage creatively in their work, theyhave expressed discomfort in supporting students in exploration, and students feel they havelimited opportunities to engage in creativity in engineering [9]. Currently, opportunities fordivergent thinking in most engineering pedagogy is limited to open-ended design projects, forexample in first year engineering or capstone design courses [10]–[12]. However, even withopportunities to diverge, students may not be taught or facilitated in using specific strategies fordivergent thinking throughout their engineering problem-solving experiences. Education thatexists on divergent thinking in engineering often centers only on idea generation and consideringmany varied solutions [13], but in practice there are many
come away with a stronger appreciation for the importance yet difficulty of includingrepresentative stakeholder views in built environment decision making.Fourth-year course: Senior Capstone Design The senior capstone design class completes the set of spine courses. This implementationof capstone design has been a completely problem-based course for more than 20 years wherestudent groups execute a real-world project unique to their team mentored by an industry sponsorthrough the entire semester. It is also the time for students to apply all that they have learned fromthe team development sessions in the other spine courses. Here, in particular, highlyinterdisciplinary design projects emerge that address Healthy Communities, the fourth
,” Int. J. Constr. Supply Chain Manag., vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 19–42, 2018, doi: 10.14424/ijcscm801018-19-42.[33] N. McWhirter and T. Shealy, “Bridging engineering and psychology: Using an envision gold certified project to teach decision making for sustainability,” ASEE Annu. Conf. Expo. Conf. Proc., vol. 2017-June, 2017, doi: 10.18260/1-2--27978.[34] L. Brunell, “A real-world approach to introducing sustainability in civil engineering capstone design,” ASEE Annu. Conf. Expo. Conf. Proc., 2019.[35] C. Boyle et al., “Delivering sustainable infrastructure that supports the urban built environment,” Environ. Sci. Technol., vol. 44, no. 13, pp. 4836–4840, 2010, doi: 10.1021/es903749d.[36] G. Weerasinghe, K
patients can use themselves.” perspectives “[K]nowing more about things insurance covers will influence how I design devices.”(IN)SCRIBE Program OutcomesOne goal of the (IN)SCRIBE Program is to develop student skill in needs identification. Thesummer 2021 cohort (n=8) generated a total of 123 user needs during their clinical immersions.Students practiced identifying engineering needs, assigning difficulty levels to the identifiedneeds, and connecting how their identified needs involve a clear socioeconomic dimension. Twoidentified user needs became senior capstone projects the following year, impacting studentsbeyond the Program. The five rising-senior student participants now lead five different capstoneteams in a year-long capstone design
7.0 Module 4 Capstone 6.9 Module 3 Learning Content 6.7 Module 2 Capstone 6.0 Module 2 Learning Content 5.1 Module 3 Capstone 4.6 Module 5 Capstone 4.5 Module 4 Learning Content 4.2In the Spring 2021 Dynamics course, scores on the learning activities in Realizeit weresignificant predictors of a student’s project and exam grades (p<0.0001). Notably, 48% of thevariation in project grades and 20% of the variability in exam grade was explained by theRealizeit score (as determined by the r2 from linear regression). In contrast, in 2019 when no ALmaterials were used, neither homework (r2=0, p=0.93) nor quizzes (r2=0.02, p=0.07) weresignificantly
pandemic are useful even after the pandemic. Onlinepresentation, use of GitHub for software development, use of Google documents/directory, Googleform for team evaluation and peer evaluation are a few things that can be adopted after pandemic toimprove student learning. In this paper, successes and lessons learned will be shared regarding the useof Zoom in lectures, laboratories, and help sessions, homework and quizzes in Canvas, virtualpresentation for Mini-Maker Faire, feedback from students, and capstone projects.1. IntroductionOnline learning has been studied long before the pandemic [1,2,4,5,6,11,19,20,21,22,23]. In mid 90s, asthe internet increased its popularity, educators started to investigate the feasibility of online education[22]. In
conscientious engineering aspects throughout the undergraduate educational experience. His efforts include formally integrating sustainability design requirements into the mechanical engineering capstone projects, introducing non-profit partnerships related to designs for persons with disabilities, and founding the Social/Environmental Design Impact Award. He manages several outreach and diversity efforts including the large-scale Get Out And Learn (GOAL) engineering kit program that reaches thousands of local K-12 students. He has received the Volunteers for Medical Engineering (VME) 2020 Faculty of the Year award, Engineering for US All (e4usa) 2021 Most Outstanding University Partner Award, and the VME 2021 Volunteer of
open-ended exploration of the problem and solution. Similarly, commercial product “flops” werepotentially familiar to students, close-ended, and difficult to collect sufficient contextualelements related to the failure. Thus, we elected to focus on student design projects. Studentdesign projects were collected from publicly available engineering capstone design coursewebsites, which typically provided ample information about projects. The capstone websiteswere located through Google searches of university engineering capstone design programs fromaround the United States.Our initial search identified 13 student design projects fitting our criteria, covering a range ofdomains and including a diverse set of contextual elements. Three of these
increase innovationthat more aligns with the dynamic workforce.The current pathway model to a doctorate does not allow for differentiated backgrounds andinterests of students. Should our innovations be adopted by other programs based on ouranticipated findings, a separate Doctor of Innovation track might emerge as a viable alternative tothe current Doctor of Philosophy track.PAtENT DescriptionThe overall project goal is to develop an alternate pathway for doctoral candidates in STEMprograms to satisfy their capstone degree requirements that has the potential to modernize the 1STEM Ph.D., bringing it in greater alignment with recent rapid changes to the
times has averaged 12-20,roughly double the number enrolled in the EPICS course.The catalog description for this course at ONU is a “service-learning design course in whichteams of students work together on long-term projects that address the engineering and/orcomputing needs of a community partner.” Examples of projects: • The design and installation of a new concrete base for a war memorial cannon in the park of an area village.7 • Design improvements to a lunar rover replica built by a previous ONU engineering capstone project for the Armstrong Air & Space Museum. • Restoration of a 1300-lb bell from a fire-damaged church.8 • Boundary survey for a nature center. • Caboose restoration for village park
, planning, scheduling, budgeting), critical thinking, self-drive andmotivation, cultural awareness in a broad sense (nationality, ethnicity, linguistic, sexualorientation) and high ethical standards, integrity, and global, social, intellectual andtechnological responsibility [3]. The focus of this paper is on some of those professional skills.Below are some examples of things that many employers look for in new engineering graduates: Leadership examples in school, at home, at work, in outside organizations, etc. Previous relevant work experience, preferably internships, co-ops, and research projects with professors. Can cogently discuss major projects, especially their capstone. Passion / interest in the company and
capstone design projects.Students develop a business opportunity based on their senior design project and convey theirbusiness idea in a pitch and executive summary through various exercises. Students can choosetheir teams for the senior design project. Students develop an understanding of the innovationprocess and develop an entrepreneurial mindset.As part of the course assignments, the students prepare a Business Model Canvas, an executivesummary, an elevator pitch, and a draft business plan. These assignments directly prepare allteams to compete in the elevator pitch competition. However, the students must go above andbeyond the assignments and iterate their business models and pitches to win the competition. Thecourse assignments and learning
respectivegardens, but do not mention any form of long-term mutual benefit. This gap in literature presentsan opportunity to explore transformational action using engineering projects in a reciprocalmanner.Most existing literature grounded in engineering community partnerships is predominated bysingular projects that will serve the community until finished without very much follow up.Examples of this include mentions of undergraduate capstone projects that involve the studentscreating an automated urban greenhouse for garden sustainability [12]. Other projects detail howmulti-year EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) projects targeting food apartheidmay provide temporary support for community members with potential for follow up in thefuture
five weeks ofskill-building, but unlike previous offerings, two individual projects are added, and the teamproject is shorter as a consequence. These changes were made based on the positive outcomes ofindividual projects during the past two years and the shortened team project in 2021, the hybridyear. Notably, Individual Project 1 follows naturally from the skill-building stage and is mainlyconducted outside class. However, students share their reports with their teammates during week7 to facilitate cooperative learning. This structure allowed the team project to begin during classtime in week 6. The team project is essentially the same but condensed into a shorter time.Individual Project 2 is a capstone project that allows students to use all
processingcourses in the curriculum that rely on it for foundational material. This includes advanced CADclasses MFGE 462 and 466 (elective), CAM classes MFGE 332 and 434, classes in design (333,463) and process planning (381) and as general support for the capstone senior project.Figure 2 presents an overview of the instructional components in the class. This includes use ofthe StudyCAD online training material developed by NewMarketLab [10] to support a flippedclassroom model where students are empowered to do self-paced learning. This enables classtime to be more focused on individual and team problem solving using the CAD skills studentslearn on their own. The class is also heavily infused with design content that is applied through aterm project. As
based learning as partof the curriculum. From the first year introductory engineering course to senior capstone,design/build/test projects and hands on lab experiences have always played an integral part in thecourse curriculum [1]. However, during the ABET assessment retreats of 2012 and 2013, apossible area of improvement was identified. During the retreat, employer surveys from co-opsupervisors [2] and surveys from recent alumni [3] were evaluated. The surveys identified thatsome students lacked a complete understanding of machining methods and how they influenceengineering design. In addition, students were not always able to demonstrate how machiningtolerances should be correctly applied to insure quality and reduce production cost
spine, through several cycles of design, may help students to overcomehabits detrimental to design, such as jumping to propose solutions. Other implicit forms ofdesign appear in non-design courses with a project-based pedagogical approach or applyingdesign thinking to address an open-ended challenge.A design spine may also be connected through a design framework where certain elements of theframework are emphasized in each course to develop confidence and competence throughrepetition [36], which is difficult to achieve in a bookend (cornerstone and capstone) curriculumapproach [7]. A design spine/learning progression provides a structure that can thrive throughchanges such as scaling up a program, increasing offerings of courses, and changing
-based-learning courses in environmental biotechnology with interdisciplinary learning,” Proc. of ASEE Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI. 10.18260/1-2-1513.[7] R.H. Todd, C.D. Sorensen, S.P. Magleby, 1993, “Designing a senior capstone course to satisfy industrial customers,” Journal of Engineering Education, 82 (2).[8] J. Murray, L. Cuen Paxson, S. Seo, M. Beattie, 2020, “STEM-oriented alliance for research (SOAR): an educational model for interdisciplinary project based learning,” Proc. of ASEE Virtual Conference, Virtual. 10.18260/1-2-35206.[9] J. Roesler, P. Littleton, A. Schmidt, L. Schideman, M. Johnston, J. Mestre, G. Herman, I. Mena, E. Gates, J. Morphew, and L. Liu, 2015, “Campus integrated project-based learning course in
engineeringtechnology capstone course offered in Fall 2019. Students were required to use CATME(Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness), a web-based tool, to ratethemselves and their teammates on a 5-point scale for each of five teamwork dimensions(Contributing to Team’s Work; Interacting with Teammates; Keeping the Team on Track;Expecting Quality; Having Related Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities), and to provide writtenfeedback entries for each team member. Our data analysis indicated that most of the writtencomments were related to “Contributing to Team’s Work,” while other comments were non-specific (e.g., “Awesome teammate” or “Average”).Research suggests that training and practice can enhance peer feedback quality [4], [5]. In Fall2021, two