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Keith L. Hohn

Incorporating Creativity into a Capstone Engineering Design Course Keith L. Hohn Department of Chemical Engineering Kansas State UniversityAbstractCreativity is a critical part of engineering design that should be encourage and nurtured inengineering students. Two creative exercises were implemented into a senior chemicalengineering design course. The first exercise was designed to enhance student awareness of therole of creativity in engineering design. In this exercise, students were asked to create a piece ofartwork depicting their major (chemical engineering) in some way and to reflect on the processthey followed to produce

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Angel Riggs; Kirby Smith; Cindy Blackwell; Paul Weckler; Dan Tilley; Rodney Holcomb; Shelly Sitton; Ron Delahoussaye

companies to take a student-produced idea or product directly to market. Long term: The long-term goals of the Innovations Process program are two fold. First, they include the institutionalization of the program as a regular part of Oklahoma State University‟s recognized curriculum; and the expectation that every student will complete a capstone project that requires them to solve a real-world problem. Additionally, long-term goals for local industry include the development of a healthier and more prosperous local economy; and job creation at firms with innovative experience. Intervening mechanisms: The following external factors that may influence the Innovations Process

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Lauren M. Ronsse; Lily M. Wang; Clarence E. Waters

Industry Participation in the Interdisciplinary Team Design Project Course of a Master of Architectural Engineering Program Lauren M. Ronsse, Lily M. Wang, Clarence E. Waters Architectural Engineering Program University of Nebraska – LincolnAbstractThis is a case study of extensive industry participation in the capstone design course of theMaster of Architectural Engineering program at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. Thiscourse, entitled Interdisciplinary Team Design Project, pairs teams of professional engineers andstudents to provide mentoring, assessment, and feedback, as the students work oninterdisciplinary teams to design the

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Sara E. Wilson; Peter W. Tenpas; Ronald L. Dougherty; Christopher D. Depcik; Kenneth Fischer

traditionally used including courseperformance, faculty assessment, standardized testing, GPA, and surveys of graduates andemployers. In this project, the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Kansasexamined using the senior capstone design poster presentations as a means to assess studentlearning across the curriculum. A rubric was created and deployed using industrial advisoryboard members to assess student performance. From this assessment, student learning wasassessed and reported to the faculty for evaluation and discussion. This rubric and assessment ofthe senior capstone design presentations were found to be particularly useful in examiningcommunication skills, design methodology skills, and the ability to design and

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Greg Murray; Tim Thomas

they worked. Objective 2 was thecause for concern. Program assessment led to the observations that the student skills were weakand that the program was not exposing students to emerging technologies and important moderntools of the discipline. These observations came from the program industry advisory committee,students, and program faculty.The MET industry advisory committee, the primary tool used to get industry constituent input,participated in the assessment of the program by reviewing „capstone‟ project presentations.Drawings presented were unclear and incomplete; members of the committee identified thebaseline program content weakness stating other, newer software is being widely used inindustry. Many committee members felt students

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Charles Baukal; Joe Colannino; Wes Bussman; John Matsson

entrepreneurship education and capstone projects while exceeding ABET requirements, proceedings of the 2006 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, paper AC 2006-1330.6 J.P. Gosink and R.A. Streveler, Bringing adjunct engineering faculty into the learning community, J. Engineering Education, Vol. 89, No. 1, pp. 47-51, 2000.7 A. Rose and N. Voigt, The role of adjunct faculty in future engineering, proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, paper AC 2008-2046.8 V. Varma, Practitioners as adjunct clinical professors: Their role in teaching real-world engineering applications in design and construction, proceedings of the

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Don Malzahn; Lawrence Whitman; Zulma Toro-Ramos; Julie-Ellen Acosta

engineering disciplines, it is not part of a capstone project andstudents have little or no formal experience in business or training in teamwork. AnotherProceedings of the 2010 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Educationimportant consideration is the difference between the experience of undergraduate students andthe experience of those for whom most leadership development programs are targeted. Table 4highlights some of the differences between industry and university students of leadership.Table 4 Situational comparison of Leadership Development environment for industry anduniversity participants. Professionals StudentsIdentified by others as having