Collection

2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Eric Granlund; Sohail Anwar

A PROJECT-BASED CAPSTONE ENGINEERING DESIGNCOURSE FOR ASSOCIATE DEGREE MECHANICALENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY STUDENTS Eric Granlund Sohail Anwar erg100@psu.edu sxa15@psu.edu The Pennsylvania State University-Altoona 3000 Ivyside Park Altoona, PA 16601 Abstract: All the associate degree mechanical engineering technology (2MET) students at The Pennsylvania State University, Altoona College are required to take a capstone engineering design course during their fourth semester in the two-year degree program. This project-based three credit-hour course is titled “Product Design with

Collection

2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

William E. Kelly; Theodore A. Bickart; Richard J. Forselius

application of relevant standards and design codes is integrated into project work and design theory. Section2A.23 deals with industrial relations and asks programs to describe any participation in “multi-stakeholder forums for the developmentof technical standards, codes, regulations or guidelines.” Programs must provide, as part of the sections dealing with facultyinformation, information on memberships in standards developing organizations and on participation on standards developmentcommittees. There are no comparable specific requests in the ABET self-study guidance [7]Canadian engineering colleges are asked to provide information relating to staff participation in standards development work at thenational or international level. With respect to