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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Norman D. Dennis

. While Jenkins, et.al.,(2002) describe a two-semestersequenced capstone experience that requires the technical work to be performed in the firstsemester, while professional issues are dealt with in the second semester. Farr, 2001 advocatesusing project based design experiences where the student must prepare a real product for a realclient. Still others, (Kolar(2000), Wood et.al.,2001) suggest an integrated and systematicapproach to design which spans the entire four year curriculum. In the Civil Engineeringprogram at the University of Arkansas the culminating design experience prescribed in Criteria 4has been satisfied with a course titled Senior Design, CVEG 4494, a four credit hour, singlesemester course dedicated to a culminating design

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Angie Crist; Russ Newcomer; Michael Propst; Pedro Leite

Business Projects and Authentic Learning Angie Crist Russ Newcomer Michael Propst Pedro Leite Engineering Technology Department Computer Systems Technology Kansas State University – Salina Abstract This paper describes our experiences working with two student-led team projects: an internship project and a volunteer project. Both projects involved the design, development, and

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Thomas Mertz

experience helped me in this class.” Two ofthese courses are capstone courses in which completion of a real-world project is the onlyactivity. The third is an advanced database course in which the team project is a majorcomponent. A breakdown of team dynamics or a dysfunctional team has a tremendous effect inthese courses. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section ConferenceConclusionThe effectiveness of cooperative learning techniques is firmly established and need not berepeated here. The more important result concerns the goal of providing freshmen with a teamexperience so that they will be better prepared and more successful when they reach the capstonecourses

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Troy Harding

continuous improvement process. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section ConferenceA department assessment committee was formed with representatives from each of the differentprogram areas. As the committee grappled with how to document the assessment process, it wassuggested that we might try building a database application to store the information. Theeventually led to the idea of making this prototype assessment system a student project. In theSpring 2004 semester the best fit for this type of project was my Web Development Projectcourse. This a capstone course in the Web Development Technology Associate Degree. One ofthe big challenges for the committee was to come up with system specifications for

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Steve Menhart

theapplication of C for microcontroller programming are included4,5. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section Conference ConclusionsThe transition of this course from assembly language to C programming has proved very popularwith students. A minimal number of Motorola assembly language instructions are stillintroduced in the course. Once students understand some basic fundamental concepts, they canrealize the full potential of programming a microcontroller using C. Most of our students decideto use the 9S12 microcontroller in their capstone senior design project course, allowing them totackle larger problems

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Joseph J. Rencis; Hartley T. Grandin

Engineering Education Midwest Section Conference to more advanced courses, i.e., machine design, structural design, etc., projects become lengthier, open-ended and difficult, leading to the capstone design experience. The implementation of this approach carries with it the following significant challenges:1. Symbolic Equations. The difficulty in requiring a symbolic approach with sophomore and junior engineering students is motivating them to write a complete set of governing equations in symbolic form before substituting numerical values. They just are not familiar with formulating problems this way. Their training in high school and college has primarily involved sequential solutions of the applicable formulas. The good news is that

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Judy Collins; Beverlee Kissick; Jung Oh; Alysia Starkey

Program, Airframe and Powerplant Maintenance, and Technology Management). Develop means to evaluate the effect of the Inservice visits/faculty-library collaboration.Long-term goals: Identify barriers to this work, either in the opinions of faculty, administration, or library staff. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section Conference Recruit specific faculty teaching key, capstone courses for the purpose of planning assessment measures in coordination with college-wide assessment plans: o Engineering: First year seminar o Engineering: Senior project o Construction Technology (Associates) research