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Robert S. Woodley

2024 ASEE Midwest Section Annual Conference Failure Mode: An Engineering Capstone Case Study of Educating Despite Failures Robert Woodley1 1Associate Teaching Professor: Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri USA; rwoodley@mst.eduAbstractIn the modern engineering curriculum, the highlight of the students’ careers is the capstone classwhere they get to show off their abilities. However, the greatest learning tool they experience isfailure. Capstone projects can be challenging. In this paper, a case study of five

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Mirit Shamir; Jonathan Aguilar; Rebecca Cors; Ryan Hansen; Nathan Hendricks; Gaea Hock; Stacy Hutchinson; Prathap Parameswaran; Matthew Sanderson; Melanie M. Derby

audiences, and understand their potential vocational path-ways, including government, academia, and industry.The NRT program incorporated educational and experiential activities such as field experience,policy experience at the state capital, applied course work, interdisciplinary research projects,faculty and peer mentoring, professional development, and periodic assessment of these activi-ties. The NRT developed and offered three courses: a one-credit-hour cross-listed course, Inte-grated FEW Systems, a two-credit-hour cross-listed NRT Capstone course, and a 0-credit NRTSeminar. The Integrated FEW Systems course introduced students to systems thinking, with spe-cific application to the FEW nexus in Southwest Kansas. The NRT Capstone was a project

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Sara E. Wilson; Emma Grob-French; Patsy Maddy; Nancy Noyes

improving teamwork developmentand communication skills to improve the quality of the final products and the teamwork skillsdevelopment within the class.KeywordsService learning, programmingIntroductionThe Accreditation Board for Engineering (ABET) requires engineering programs documentseven student outcomes on key program educational objectives. Of these seven outcomes, the 5thoutcome is “an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provideleadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meetobjectives.” Teamwork has long been acknowledged as an important skillset valued by futureemployers. While this outcome is often evaluated in capstone projects in the senior year,fundamental

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Kimberly J. Cornett

ME. Due to the small size of the department, the three separate programs share engineeringcore classes in the freshman year and fall of the sophomore year. A semester long design coursein the junior year and a two-semester capstone design course in the senior year are also shared byall three degree programs. The engineering program has six faculty members who teach themajority of engineering courses with minimal adjunct involvement.The ABET accreditation process is managed at the department level which is warranted by thesize and integrated nature of the ME, EE, and RME degree programs. A faculty member servesas the ABET coordinator and is primarily responsible for the collection and organization ofassessment data provided by all course

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John W. Gibbons

Senior Capstone studentswith the idea of designing a point-and-click adventure game for preschool children. Once I had aComputer Science team willing to take on the project, I reached out to a professor from theSchool of Art and Design, Matthew Cook, who was able to assemble a team of artists for theproject. Professor Bryan ‘Kip’ Haaheim (currently retired) arranged a collaboration with a lonemusic student to write the score.The goal was to create a point-and-click adventure game for preschool children. I gave the teamthe following parameters: ● No reading ability required ● Theme appropriate for children ● Playable on PC ● Mouse is the only input deviceThe result was the creation of the game "Dragon Adventure" [1] , winner of

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Charles Baukal

ABET a-k Student Outcomes [15].An increasing number of engineering projects are cross-disciplinary. Communication is furthercomplicated by multiple time zones, cultures, and sometimes even languages. Engineers mustlearn to work in teams; however, they do not get a lot of practice doing that as undergraduates,except for labs and capstone projects. Part of the reason for this is that many engineering coursesare theory-based where problems have a single correct answer, with faculty trying to assess theperformance of individual students. Back and Sanders wrote, “engineers at all levels must beable and willing to function in a team environment, and to accept that the team, not theindividual, will succeed or fail” [16].Learning how to work

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Nosakhare I. Idiaghe; Jessica Deters

education institutions sincethe 1998 Boyer Commission recommended that institutions should “make research-basedlearning the standard” [1]. Literature has found undergraduate research to be beneficial to bothstudents, faculty, and the institution [2], [3], [4], [5], [6].Various forms of undergraduate research exist, including apprentice-style, capstone and seniortheses, internships and co-ops, course based undergraduate research experiences, wrap aroundexperiences, bridge programs, consortiums, and community-based research programs [7]. Of thevarious forms of undergraduate research identified in literature, the apprenticeship model ofresearch is believed to be the first type of research model adopted by institutions engaged in

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Clancy Milam; Chinmaya Joshi; Stephen Pierson; Han Hu; Ying Sun

is exactly causing thedata to be inconsistent, calibration and testing of the setup will have to be done. 2024 ASEE Midwest Section ConferenceAcknowledgements:This work was supported by NASA under Grant No. 80NSSC23K023. C.M. acknowledges supportfrom the Arkansas Space Grant Consortium Workforce Development program.References:[1] “Thermal Properties of Materials.” Infinitia Industrial Consulting, July 28, 2022. https://www.infinitiaresearch.com/en/sin-categoria-en/thermal-properties-of-materials/.[2] Dunn, Alexandra, Josh Henderson, Zachary Kubas, and Chandan Roy. “Capstone Engineering Project to Design an Apparatus for Testing the Thermal Impedance and Apparent Thermal Conductivity of

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Heather L. Walker; Daesoo Kim; Edgar C. Clausen

engineers focusing on water treatment or transportation issues. These differences inunderstanding sustainability by discipline are easily recognized when looking at the requirementsfor an undergraduate minor in sustainability at the University of Arkansas, (U of A) [2]. Whileall students pursuing the minor must complete six hours of basic classes in sustainability (SUST11003 and 21003) and a three-hour capstone project in sustainability (SUST 41003), theremaining nine hours of electives for the sustainability minor may come from courses in 34different majors. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 2024 ASEE Midwest Section ConferenceEngineering has seen a significant increase in

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Chinmaya Joshi; Clancy Milam; Corbin Russ; Stephen Pierson; Han Hu; Ying Sun

uses steady-state analysis to create a temperature profileacross the sample and subsequently calculate the thermal resistance and conductivity. This setupcan greatly assist students with thermal characterization requirements for testing materials in-house and reduce development time in capstone projects and research while allowing them tounderstand the fundamentals of heat transfer through practical applications. It is also a goodalternative for organizations looking into building their thermal characterization facilities.Keywords: Thermal Conductivity, Heat Conduction, Experimental Facility, UndergraduateStudent PosterNomenclature:k = Thermal ConductivityR = Thermal ResistanceT = Temperaturet = Timeq = Heat Flow