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Afshin Zahraee

ETD 525 Preparing Successful Professionals through an Applied Interdisciplinary Capstone Project Between Engineering Technology and Nursing Afshin Zahraee Purdue University NorthwestAbstractThis paper analyzes the interdisciplinary team approach in a capstone project involvingengineering technology and nursing students. Not only do scholars display skills at an appliedlevel, but professional growth and development are sharpened by learning to work with a groupwith various proficiencies and expertise to come to an optimal

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MADDUMAGE KARUNARATNE; Christopher Gabany

ETD 525 Capstone Courses Enhanced to Suit Larger Industry Maddumage Karunaratne, Christopher Gabany University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractThe paper elaborates on assessments utilized in capstone projects to meet many of theaccreditation criteria and narrower individual components in student outcomes. It also describesthe structural components adopted recently into our electrical and computer engineering capstonecurriculum, which may be atypical at other institutions. Most engineering technology programsfollow similar engineering capstone project curriculum, thus there

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Biswajit Ray

studentsuccess in the semester-long capstone design course offered the following academic year. Two ofthe projects completed during the fall-2019 semester as part of the instrumentation course, RobotUmpire and Hot Tea Machine, are presented next.Sample Student Project: Robot UmpireThe goal of this project was to create a baseball pitching aid that would allow pitchers to play agame by themselves to improve their abilities. The Robot Umpire would register if the pitcherthrew a ball or a strike and keep track of strikes to the batter, balls to the batter, outs in theinning, total strikes thrown, total pitches thrown, the pitcher’s strike percentage, the pitcher’swalks in the inning, the number of innings played, and the batters on base in the inning

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Grant Richards; Nicole Otte

laboratoryrequires industry insight and expertise to ensure that applications, technologies, configurations,and use cases align with standards and industry trajectory.Purdue University and Endress+Hauser USA have a well-established history of partnering toincrease awareness of the process sector and deliver improved learning experiences capable ofpresenting real-world challenges in the classroom and laboratory [3]. The first collaboration wasin 2014 with a capstone project, the Purdue Integrated Process Education System (PIPES). Thefully operational system was designed and constructed during a yearlong capstone projectundertaken by senior students in Purdue’s Manufacturing Engineering Technology degreeprogram, later serving as a teaching and learning tool

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Joseph Untener; Philip Appiah-Kubi

ETD 525 Building a Strong Foundation for Senior Design Courses Joseph A. Untener, Philip Appiah-Kubi University of Dayton1. IntroductionThe inclusion of a capstone project course is one of the most universal elements of curriculathroughout the widely diverse Engineering Technology programs in the country, Yet at the sametime, probably no single course in those curricula has more variation in approach, structure,assumptions, and resources than the capstone design course.The University of Dayton’s approach to senior capstone projects is just one of many usedthroughout

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William Evans

types of labs including Simulink programming as well as PIDcontrol and loop-in-loop PID control. It can be useful for stability studies although it tends to bea very stable process. The total cost is about $1,500 per station. See Fig. 3 for the tank-over-tankprocess.From Capstone to MS Student to InstructorA lab that began as a capstone lab, then evolving to a MS project, and finally to a desk topproject for the instructor was the rewind lab [8]. This lab has a number of different outcomesincluding PID speed control and position control as well as initialization of programming andgeneral process design strategies. This lab has been a favorite since it has so many moving partsand combines electrical and mechanical challenges.This lab started as

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Mohsen Azizi; Venancio Fuentes

combination ofknowledge test, hands-on troubleshooting scenarios of embedded faults, and final researchproject. These courses will also prepare the students to conduct their capstone senior designprojects in the field of renewable energy systems and specifically solar energy systems (futureplan).The principal investigators of this project have expertise in the field of solar PV and powersystems [10]-[17]. They have supervised several research and development projects and graduatetheses in the domain of renewable and solar PV systems [18]-[20] and have a prior experience oflaboratory and curriculum development [21], [22]. CCM has several solar PV arrays installed oncampus that are generating close to 400 kilowatts of electrical energy (approximately

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Laurie Flood; Adam Slazas; Hank Stewart; David Walker

-owned, vessels supporting the US military. Eachcadet must successfully complete a detailed “sea project,” an illustrated technical reportcovering many aspects of the ship’s engineering equipment and systems.The final sea term for MET students is Junior Cruise, CE303, taken during the summer aftertheir junior year. This course typically lasts approximately 74 days, and serves as a capstone seaexperience. CE303 students are expected to demonstrate advanced leadership and technicalskills and mentor those participating in their first sea cruise. The next sections of the paper willfocus on CE103 and CE303.Freshman Cruise (CE103)MMA’s first year MET students study the same topics as those in other ABET-accreditedengineering technology programs