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Jeffrey R. Mountain

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Capstone Project Selection and Evaluation Processes: More Fair for the Students and Easier for the ABET Evaluator Jeffrey R. Mountain Norwich UniversityAbstractWhile the specific focus of an ABET on site evaluation of student outcomes may vary year toyear, design outcome assessment (ABET c) tends to always be under scrutiny. Searching forevidence of addressing realistic constraints, as well as meeting any discipline specific programrequirements, can be a time consuming process for the evaluator, particularly if the capstonesequence spans two or more semesters. Capstone

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Leonard Anderson; Michael Davidson

External Collaborator/ Mentor Requirement for Senior Capstone Engineering Design Courses Leonard Anderson, Ph.D., C.P.C., Michael Davidson, P.E.AbstractTo meet the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (EAC of ABET) curriculum requirement of a “major design experience” Civil EngineeringStudents at Wentworth Institute of Technology are required to successfully complete a Civil EngineeringCapstone Design Course during the final semester (summer) of their senior year. In groups of four to sixstudents, students develop, implement, and present a comprehensive, intra-discipline civil engineerdesign project. In the summer of 2014, the Faculty of the Civil

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Colleen Symansky; Hudson Jackson; Kassim Tarhini

2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Preparing Civil Engineers for Construction Project Management Colleen Symansky, Hudson Jackson, and Kassim Tarhini United States Coast Guard Academy, New London, CTAbstractPart of the Civil Engineering Program graduation requirements at the United States Coast GuardAcademy includes the successful completion of a two-sequence construction projectmanagement study. This sequence consists of a Construction Project Management (CPM) courseand a Civil Engineering Design (CED) Capstone course. The CPM course provides anintroduction to the management practices of the construction industry, specifically focusing onhow projects are

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Walter W. Buchanan; Ali Mehrabian; Alireza Rahrooh; M. Kudret Yurtseven

with the distribution skills to managethese supply chains.The proposed undergraduate certificate in Healthcare Technology will consist of four, threecredit hour courses for a total of 12 credit hours. Core courses will include IDIS 489 (DistributorOperations in Healthcare) and a capstone course in Healthcare Technology, in which the studentwill work on an industry project with leading companies in the Healthcare industry. The thirdcourse will be a survey course in healthcare technologies from the Electronics EngineeringTechnology program (ENTC 489) within the Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution(ETID) Department. The final course will be a Healthcare quality processes elective from theMechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

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David Willis; Jeremy Vaillant

challenges of any FYE program is the recon-ciliation of student enrollment, student engagement and faculty time, budget, and space re-sources. Higher student retention rates are positive for the students, institution as well as the na-tional STEM needs; however, there appears to be no “ one size fits all” Freshman Year Experi-ence to guarantee student retention.Freshman engineering experiences vary from one engineering program to the next. Several engi-neering colleges have adopted a cornerstone-to-capstone approach that engages students with aproject intensive freshman year experience and then revisits this hands-on project philosophythrough the curriculum to later culminate with a senior capstone design project2,3. The projects inthe freshman year

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Michael J. Davidson

0 3 372 Fall Semester (CORE) Junior Year Structural Steel CIVE Design Summer 3 0 3 440 Semester (ELECTIVE) Senior Year Reinforced Concrete CIVE Design Spring 3 0 3 450 Semester (ELECTIVE) Senior Year Capstone – Senior CIVE Design Projects Summer 1 6 4 650 Semester (CORE)A prerequisite for the structural

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Paul B. Crilly

1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conferencewidely used undergraduate EM textbook that includes a good introduction of antenna theory.The classic antennas book by Krauss presents an in depth theory of antennas. Silver11 coverspractical antenna theory and practical projects for the practitioner.Portable Analyzer to Enhance the Laboratory ExperienceIn this section we will describe the various experiments that have been done using the portableanalyzer.A. Antenna radiation patternAs already stated, the portable analyzer has the capacity to both generate and receive an RFsignal. Thus we can measure the radiation pattern of the test or prototype

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Md. M. Rashid; Mahbub Ahmed

be arranged as modules, depending on the course and program.• Lecture and/or lab topics - describe the topic or theme of the lectures/labs. Topics may be subcategorized by lecture hour or by week. Topic should be descriptive enough so that students may best prepare for in-class time.• Events, assessments, and due dates: The schedule should include all assessments for lecture/lab; due dates for projects, special projects, and presentations. Also, include dates that are holidays, days in which classes will not be held due to instructor’ s absence or due to other reasons.F. How learning will be assessed• Grading procedure – this generally include in-class (i.e., exams and quizzes) and out-of-class assignments, multiple-choice

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Matthew Stein

enhancing our student’s skills in SolidWorks. We expect ourseniors to use SolidWorks extensively in our capstone senior design, but our students learnSolidWorks formally only in their first semester. By the fourth semester Dynamics course theyhave already become a little rusty. If we do not require students to use SolidWorks as an integralpart of their intermediate coursework; we should show little surprise when they proclaim as seniorsthat they have forgotten it all.Results The four benefits described above are simply conjectured by the author. A survey wasadministered to students having just completed the Dynamics course in the spring of 2013 and 6