Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rui (Celia) Pan, Purdue University; Shih-Ping Kuo, Purdue University; Johannes Strobel, Purdue University

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Design in Engineering Education

Practice basic design elements, (7 females; 39 (6 females; 22 principles, composition and males) males) typology to communicate visuallyCG01 by solving exercise problems and designing projects like identity logo, flyer, calendar, and postcard. Program: In Design 19 17 Design single and multiple- page (8 females; (6 females; 11 documents for business, advertising 11males) males) such as identities, flyers, brochures,CG02 forms

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Howard Eisner, George Washington University

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Design in Engineering Education

. Eisner, H., “Essentials of Project and Systems Engineering Management”, 3 rd Edition, John Wiley, 2008 5. U. S. Department of Defense (DoD), (2003), The Defense Acquisition System, Directive 5000.1, and Operation of the Defense Acquisition System, Instruction 5000.2, Washington, DC, May 12 6. Eisner, H. (2004), “New Systems Architecture Views”, paper presented at the 25th National Conference of the American Society of Engineering Management (ASEM), Alexandria, VA, October 20-23. 7. Eisner, H. “Managing Complex Systems – Thinking Outside the Box”, John Wiley, 2005 Page 15.738.9

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Baumann, Central Connecticut State University; Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University

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Mechanical Engineering

Management Methodologies Support a Senior Project Research Course and Its AssessmentAbstractMotivated by required program learning outcomes and recommendations from a continuousimprovement plan focus group, Central Connecticut State University has uniquely organized itsmechanical engineering senior project design research class to include significant review ofDesign of Experiments (DOE) and Project Management (PM) methodologies. Both studies havebeen linked to computational software tools for students to use in their capstone experience. Theultimate goal of the class is a project design proposal in which researched backgroundinformation forms the introduction to a managed project plan which can include designedexperimentation within the

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE III

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Cambron, Western Kentucky University; Stacy Wilson, Western Kentucky University

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Electrical and Computer

Competing at the IEEE Robotics Competitionsequence is composed of four one semester design courses. In addition, the design experienceculminates with a senior capstone design experience. Many of these projects are done with thesupport of local industry. Students prepare for outstanding professional leadership byparticipating in real-world projects undertaken by multidisciplinary teams using state-of-the-arttools and facilities. EE faculty are rewarded and required to engage students in activities tosupport the development of a clear understanding of engineering practice. 8 Figure 2: EE Design I Robot ProjectRole of Design CoursesAn important part of the EE Program’s project based curriculum is the design sequence

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Cook, Lawrence Tech University; Jerry Cuper, Lawrence Tech University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

tool controls and gauging at GTE-Valenite Corp., started and managed the clinical engineering department at William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, and was a research associate in radiology, nuclear medicine, and bio-mechanics at Wayne State University. Ken has taught at Lawrence Tech evening programs as an adjunct instructor since 1965. His senior projects class, where students generate project ideas, research, design, manufacture, and assess the market for inventive products is the capstone course. Cook also has enjoyed a long side career in magic finding his hobby very useful in teaching. A highlight for his students each year is the two-hour magic performance he offers as a congratulatory send

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dick Blandford, University of Evansville; Christina Howe, University of Evansville; Anthony Richardson, University of Evansville; David Mitchell, University of Evansville

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Electrical and Computer

systems, and less often digital controls or networks.More elaborate projects are done as a capstone experience. This paper is limited to non-capstoneprojects that include both hardware and software and are most frequently done in the sophomoreand junior year of a computer engineering program.Since such projects involve multiple areas within different disciplines, instructor's expectations,and work done over more than one year, it becomes difficult to assess how much of each topic agiven student has covered. This paper suggests a way to classify such projects using the topicsoutlined in the Computer Engineering Body of Knowledge (BOK) document produced in 2004by a joint task force of IEEE Computer Society and the ACM. A sample project is given

Conference Session

CE Capstone: Innovations in Learning & Assessment

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charlie Quagliana, University of WIsconsin-Madison; Jeffrey Russell, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Michael Doran, University of WIsconsin-Madison; Rod Hassett, University of WIsconsin-Madison; Greg Harrington, University of WIsconsin-Madison

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Civil Engineering

design class was created as a result of our ABET visit andfeedback in 1994. The capstone design class, at that time, was discipline-specific and with anarrow design context (i.e., a structure, foundation, water system, etc.) and failed to comply withthe CE program criteria. The department embraced the ABET feedback as a means to improvethe curriculum and student preparation for professional practice.The selected instructional strategy was to evolve a curriculum that develops young engineers Page 15.1300.3through more hands-on experiences with real world projects. The scope and depth of the course

Conference Session

Student Learning and Assessment

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicholas Harlow, Western Kentucky University; Robert Choate, Western Kentucky University; H. Joel Lenoir, Western Kentucky University

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Mechanical Engineering

capstone lab experimentfor the course that would incorporate various experimentation and instrumentation techniquesdeveloped throughout the semester. Moreover, this would create a link between this junior levellab and the thermal-fluids systems senior level lab which consists of similar type experiments.The experiment was developed through a design, build, and test (DBT) extracurricular projectgiven to the ME Program’s thermal-fluids sciences laboratory student worker. Developing thisexperiment as part of an extracurricular student project provided benefits to both the studentworker and the ME Program. The student worker was given an opportunity to develop importantproject management and technical engineering skills culminating in the writing of

Conference Session

Early Engineering Design Experiences

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Garrett Clayton, Villanova University

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Design in Engineering Education

ProjectsAbstractIn this paper, the use of impromptu design as a tool for introducing the engineering designprocess is discussed. In a typical impromptu design exercise, a simple design problem, capableof being completed in a short amount of time, is solved by teams of engineering students. Insolving the design task, the students organically progress through the engineering design process.This provides a unique opportunity to introduce beginning engineering students to the designprocess and to reinforce engineering design concepts for more senior students. This paperfocuses on the development of impromptu design projects, the use of this activity to introducethe engineering design process, and thoughts and observations gained over three years of usingthis

Conference Session

Capstone and Senior Design in Engineering Technology: Part II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Everly, University of Cincinnati; Delmer Nicholson, University of Cincinnati

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Engineering Technology

Technology Departments at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College since 1989. He joined the University of Cincinnati in 2008. Page 15.320.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Controlling a Power Supply via the Internet Provides a Capstone Design Experience In Topics of Applied DesignAbstractThis paper focuses on using an off-the shelf Programmable Power Supply Kit to illustrate theconcepts required in successfully completing a junior level capstone project. The capstoneProgrammable Power Supply Project is structured to support course goals and

Conference Session

Engineering Design: Implementation and Evaluation

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Pembridge, Virginia Tech; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2010-806: TOWARDS A MODEL OF TEACHING EXPERTISE IN CAPSTONEDESIGN: DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A PRELIMINARY SURVEYINSTRUMENTJames Pembridge, Virginia TechMarie Paretti, Virginia Tech Page 15.1269.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Towards a Model of Teaching Expertise in Capstone Design: Development and Validation of a Preliminary Survey InstrumentAbstractCapstone design courses seek to create a transitional environment between school and work byengaging students in collaborative, open-ended projects. These environments present a challengeto capstone faculty because the pedagogies used in such courses may differ significantly fromthose

Conference Session

Design Projects across the Curriculum

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tom Thomas, University of South Alabama; Michael Doran, University of South Alabama; James Sakalaukus, University of South Alabama

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Design in Engineering Education

Research Forum.The JagBot project included four CSEM students, two from CIS and two from ECE. Topicsincluded route planning, the creation of a sensor database (CIS), robot safety systems, and thecreation of navigation algorithms based on image processing (ECE).4.3.1.3 Senior design projectsThe students in the ECE department are expected to complete a senior capstone design project asa required part of their educational experience. The projects address design issues that thestudents are likely to encounter on their jobs, so they are required to specify multiple designapproaches, select a particular approach based on design principles, and implement thatapproach. The JagBot project was an excellent opportunity for senior design projects.Three ECE

Conference Session

Design Projects across the Curriculum

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Harold Henderson, United States Miliary Academy; Joel Dillon, United States Military Academy

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Design in Engineering Education

manufacturing machinery and machinecomponent design. The second course in the sequence, ME404, is dedicated to learning andapplying the design process. ME404 covers the process from gathering customer requirementsto creating and implementing a test plan to ensure the product successfully meets thoserequirements. The students work through an in-class example based on an illumination deviceand develop their own solution to a storage container out of class. They are required to producea prototype of their container using skills from ME403. The final course, ME496, is dedicated toa senior group capstone project that the student selects. This course allows the student to applythe design process to a more complex problem and relies heavily on the

Conference Session

SE Curriculum and Projects

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Long, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

where a key aspect of the education we provide may prove irrelevant inthe near future? This paper studies the issue of outsourcing in the software engineeringeducational environment as a required component of a software engineering project.The first aspect presented is the outsourcing of a capstone project for the Bachelor of Science inSoftware Engineering Technology program to a developer or development team in an emergingeconomy. An operational process is presented showing how this was done to bring outsourcingas a viable activity for student projects. The second aspect examines application of the developedframework for outsourcing as a key component of developing large scale software systems. Thejunior project sequence is used as a test

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Maixner, United States Air Force Academy; William Parker, Air Force Research Laboratories

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

employed in many steady state and transient heat transfer problems—infact, students have employed the modeling and programming techniques learned in this projectto other courses, including their Senior Capstone projects. Results of a student opinion survey,anecdotal data, and performance on the heat transfer portion of the Fundamentals of Engineeringexamination data are presented.I. Considerations in Designing a FDM ProjectWhen designing a problem appropriate for completion in a certain number of class meetings,certain educational and institutional constraints had to be considered. As opposed to the inite-element method (FEM), the inite-difference method (FDM) does not have a steep learningcurve, and was therefore ideal to provide students

Conference Session

Advances in Engineering Economy Pedagogy

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul Kauffmann, East Carolina University; Stephanie Sullivan, East Carolina University; Gene Dixon, East Carolina University; B.J. Kim, East Carolina University

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Engineering Economy

skillsdeveloped in previous courses. Using this focus, concepts can be mapped from one course to thenext, can be reinforced, and can be developed in a richer and more applied context. The paperaddresses integration of a natural and related group of three topical areas found in manyengineering programs and identified as high priority skills by industry: statistics, engineeringeconomics and project management. Page 15.780.3Curriculum ContextThe basic course plan of the curricular integration implementation rests on the sequence ofcourses described in Figure 1. Although it is not always possible to predict the requirements ofthe capstone project, the

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edward Crawley, MIT; Robert Niewoehner, United States Naval Academy; Jean Koster, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Aerospace

knowledge and product skills most needed for America’s aerospace workforce [CDIO Standard 2] ≠ Developing laboratory and design-implement projects that help aerospace engineering programs integrate learning laboratory and project-based experiences throughout the undergraduate program, focusing on first-year and multidisciplinary capstone design- implement experiences. [CDIO Standards 4, 5, and 6]15,16 ≠ Developing a rigorous approach to assessing student learning and skills development, based on objective measures, and surveys of student self-confidence in learning. [CDIO Standard 11] System development as the context for aeronautical engineering education Context is the surroundings and environment that

Conference Session

Been There, Done That: Advice for New Faculty

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Dahm, Rowan University

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New Engineering Educators

/Senior Clinic as the capstone design experiences in their programs. While theChemical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering departments haveseparate capstone design courses, these departments also recognize Junior/Senior Clinicas a course that well reflects engineering practice. Consequently Junior/Senior Clinicfigures prominently in the assessment efforts of all four programs. As noted in theprevious section, the Junior/Senior Clinic final reports were included in the portfolios ofstudent work that were reviewed at the end of every year. While the department obtainedvaluable data from the portfolio evaluation, an inefficiency in the process was alsoevident: each paper was being read by the project supervisor(s), who assigned a

Conference Session

Project-based Education in Energy Courses

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Craig Somerton, Michigan State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

. Page 15.140.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010An Appropriate Technology Project: A Solar Powered Vaccine RefrigeratorIntroductionNearly half of the vaccines in developing countries go to waste every year due totemperature spoilage, according to the World Health Organization. Currenttransportation and storage methods in remote regions rely on ice packs that lastjust a few days. In order to maintain the optimal temperature range of 2 to 8° Cfor vaccine preservation, these regions need reliable long-term refrigeration whereelectricity is not available.To address this problem, a capstone design team developed an affordable, robustrefrigerator that operates with energy from the sun. The vaccine refrigerator wasdesigned with

Conference Session

Teacher and Counselor Professional Development

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2010-1101: RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR TEACHERS SITE: APROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT FOR TEACHERSVikram Kapila, Polytechnic University VIKRAM KAPILA is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn, NY, where he directs an NSF funded Web-Enabled Mechatronics and Process Control Remote Laboratory, an NSF funded Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics, and an NSF funded GK-12 Fellows project. He has held visiting positions with the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH. His research interests are in cooperative control; distributed spacecraft formation control; linear/nonlinear control with applications to robust control

Conference Session

DEED Potpourri

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nabila (Nan) BouSaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; James Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Bruce Gehrig, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Daniel Hoch, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; William Heybruck, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Martin Kane, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Peter Schmidt, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Deborah Sharer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Steve Patterson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Design in Engineering Education

Senior Design ProjectsAbstractIn the past, teams from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte College of Engineering twosemester capstone senior design class first presented their project design at the end of the firstsemester. Their design consisted of a report and a poster presentation submitted to the facultymentors, course instructors and company sponsors.At the poster presentation (and in their report) we found that 35% of the teams did not includeenough design detail and 25% had virtually no design details, which indicated they had not spentmuch time on the design effort. This caused project teams to start their second semester effortsbehind schedule. By the end of the second semester, about 28% of all

Conference Session

Case Studies, Engineering Education and Outcome Assessment Around the Globe

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dan Baker, The University of Vermont; John Merrill, The Ohio State University; David Munoz, Colorado School of Mines

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International

capstone engineering course chose the water project as their semester-long senior projectand used the data collected in Honduras to evaluate alternative technologies that could addressthe e. coli contamination. The students concluded that a slow sand filter would be the mostappropriate technology given the nature of the contamination and community resources.Funding for the project was obtained through a non-profit contacted by CDAE faculty.One of the first challenges was to select which village to use for the pilot test of the slow sandfilter. A team comprised of a senior engineering student who had worked on the sand filterdesign, a CDAE graduate student who had done socio-economic surveying in the area, andCDAE faculty selected the village of

Conference Session

Early Engineering Design Experiences

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kala Meah, York College of Pennsylvania; Timothy Garrison, York College of Pennsylvania; James Kearns, York College of Pennsylvania; Gregory Link, York College of Pennsylvania; Laura Garrison, York College of Pennsylvania; Wayne Blanding, York College of Pennsylvania; Emine Celik, York College of Pennsylvania; Jennifer Dawson, York College of Pennsylvania; Stephen Kuchnicki, York College of Pennsylvania; Barry McFarland, York College of Pennsylvania

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Design in Engineering Education

interaction. He received his PhD from Rutgers University in 2001.Jennifer Dawson, York College of Pennsylvania Dr. Jennifer Bower Dawson is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at York College of Pennsylvania where she teaches courses in Machine Design, Controls, and Capstone Design. She earned her MS and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University where she worked on the design and testing of spacecraft hardware for Satellite Test of the Equivalence Principle. Her academic interests include robotics, sensor design, precision engineering, and service learning in engineering education.Barry McFarland, York College of Pennsylvania Barry McFarland received his BS

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher Williams, Virginia Tech; Erin Crede, Virginia Tech; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff, Virginia Tech

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2010-2201: EFFECTS OF STUDENT-CUSTOMER INTERACTION IN ACORNERSTONE DESIGN PROJECTChristopher Williams, Virginia Tech Christopher B. Williams is an Assistant Professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, where he directs the Design, Research, and Education for Additive Manufacturing Systems (DREAMS) Laboratory. His joint appointment in the Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Education departments reflects his diverse research interests which include layered manufacturing, design methodology, and design education. As a member of an instructional team that orchestrated a service-learning design project for the first-year engineering program, Professor

Conference Session

Design Projects in Mechanical Engineering I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angkee Sripakagorn, Chulalongkorn University; Kuntinee Maneeratana, Chulalongkorn University

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Mechanical Engineering

the University into an autonomous university, competition forstudents, and Washington Accord regulations.PURPOSE (HYPOTHESIS)This paper describes experience in implementing design as the means to the eventual goal of anengineering program – to empower the students to flourish to be capable engineers – via acapstone design course.DESIGN/METHODThe course administrative committee redesigned the course to provide the design experience asthe integrative, capstone event of an engineering program. The design experience that isexpected to deliver the desired outcomes is discussed and concluded into three main features forthis framework. Then, the required ingredients for such design experience are discussed,including types of design projects

Conference Session

Project-based Learning and Other Pedagogical Innovations

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Cressler, Georgia Tech

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

feel strongly about, regardless of their team’s official position.Each team receives a team grade, based upon a combination of: a) the written position statement,b) the instructor’s judgment of the team’s approach to their presentation and the strength of their Page 15.62.6arguments, and c) the audience’s opinion of each team’s effort (a debate evaluation is filled outby the class to provide critical feedback to each team). Team Widget Deconstruction ProjectStudents also engage in a collaborative capstone research experience in which 5-person teams dotheir own widget deconstructions and present those findings to

Conference Session

Design Projects in Mechanical Engineering II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brian Vuksanovich, Youngstown State University; Darrell Wallace, Youngstown State University

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Mechanical Engineering

paper is todetail investments and benefits of this type of collaborative experience for the student as well asthe requirements for implementation, assessment and success of the work.Assessment of the student’s progress throughout the project and the student’s scholasticimprovement overall were tracked by both MET and F&PA faculty. The results of theexperiment have provided enough confidence to conduct further experiments which are beingplanned for the Spring semester of 2010.I. IntroductionThe United States has long prided itself on the innovative capabilities of its industrial base.Henry Ford’s assembly line concept not only put the Ford Motor Company ahead of itscompetition when it was introduced, it also helped the United States out

Conference Session

Collaborative Projects in Architectural Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Symans, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Mark Mistur, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Bruce Danziger, ARUP

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Architectural

education that coupled engineering and architectural design (B.S. in Architectural Engineering at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo), project management with multi-disciplinary engineering teams, and extensive experience working with practicing architects. Examples of his work experience include The Pavilion of the Future at EXPO '92 (with Peter Rice's group), The Sony Center Roof in Berlin, the Lerner Student Center at Columbia University, and the Mondavi Center at UC Davis. His teaching experience includes the Bedford Visiting Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Hard Tech Faculty at Southern California Institute of Architecture, Visiting Lecturer at the

Conference Session

Project-based Learning and Other Pedagogical Innovations

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven Fleishman, Western Washington University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2010-31: WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY'S HYBRID BUS - AMULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO PROJECT BASED EDUCATIONSteven Fleishman, Western Washington University STEVEN FLEISHMAN is currently an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Technology Department at Western Washington University. He joined the Vehicle Research Institute at WWU in 2006 after spending twenty years in automotive drivetrain R&D. Steven.fleishman@wwu.edu Page 15.1362.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010Western Washington University’s Hybrid Bus – A Multidisciplinary Approach to Project-BasedEducationAbstract Western

Conference Session

Sustainability, Service Learning, and Entreprenuership

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anouk Desjardins, École Polytechnique de Montréal; Louise Millette, École Polytechnique de Montréal; Erik Bélanger, École Polytechnique de Montréal

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2010-228: THE CHALLENGE OF TEACHING SUSTAINABLEDEVELOPMENT USING A MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECT WITHINTEGRATED PROCESS DESIGNAnouk Desjardins, École Polytechnique de Montréal Anouk Desjardins has worked on the evolution and the teaching of the course Sustainable Development Capstone Project. After graduating in civil engineering from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal she obtained a Master’s of Applied Science in 1999. Then she worked in industry as a process engineer. Since 2008 she joined Ecole Polytechnique as a research assistant for sustainable development projects and as a lecturer.Louise Millette, École Polytechnique de Montréal Louise Millette is, since 2002, the first (and only) woman to