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- Rebekah L Martin, Virginia Military Institute; Kacie Caple D'Alessandro, Virginia Military Institute; Charles D Newhouse P.E., Virginia Military Institute; Tanjina Afrin, Virginia Military Institute
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Capstone Projects in Virginia Civil Engineering Programs: A Comprehensive Review of Practices and an Assessment of Virginia Military Institute’s OutcomesAbstractCapstone projects serve as a vital bridge between academic theory and real-world application,equipping students with the skills necessary for professional success. Each university implementscapstone projects in Civil Engineering (CE) using different styles, types of projects, and lengthsof their capstone course. A survey of CE programs in Virginia was performed to gather infor-mation on Capstone courses. In addition to comparing CE programs across Virginia, this paperexamines the capstone course at Virginia Military Institute (VMI), an institution that blends
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- James Righter, The Citadel; Nathan John Washuta P.E., The Citadel; Deirdre D Ragan, Pennsylvania State University
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]. Requirements generation and evolution can continue through laterstages of design, influencing project and product success [3]. Requirements have also beenshown to impact the product and project costs [4]. They should elicit and embody the voice ofthe customer and be translated into technical specifications. Ultimately, they must be managedthroughout the design process and used in the testing and evaluation of the product. The Houseof Quality is used as a phase of the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) process to supportcollaborative design teams in these objectives [5]. This paper focuses on the implementation ofan intervention to assist students with requirements development in a Capstone design course.This will also be used to form a basis for later
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- Lionel Hewavitharana, Southern Arkansas University; Mahbub K Ahmed P.E., Southern Arkansas University
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particular model, and it is the responsibility of engineeringprograms to use models that are effective in addressing ABET concerns related to engineeringdesign.Since the revision of the 11 “a-k” outcomes into the currently used seven outcomes, AlexSczatmary [2] argues that a change is required to assessment tools as well. The assessment toolsare mainly evaluation rubrics, and he discusses them in detail for each outcome.In order to provide industry level design experience through capstone design, most engineeringprograms seek design projects from the industry. Susannah Howe of Smith college [3] noticedthat there was a decided shift towards external project sourcing from engineering programs.In an interesting research study conducted by Mary Perrati
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- Valmiki Sooklal, Kennesaw State University; Sandip Das, Kennesaw State University
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pursuing more advanced courses in the engineeringcurriculum.IntroductionProviding undergraduate students with relevant skills in science, technology, engineering andmathematics (STEM) continues to be a challenge for educators [1], [2], [3]. Various projectbasedlearning approaches have been implemented to achieve this goal such as engineering design-based instruction (EDBI) [4] and the STEM Engineering Design Learning Cycle(STEMEDELCY) model [5]. The use of interdisciplinary engineering design projects have beensuccessfully implemented in Capstone projects. At that point, students have already acquiredsignificant knowledge from their core discipline [6], [7], [8], [9]. However, research indicatesthat exposing students to engineering design
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- Phyllis Beck, Mississippi State University; Alexis P. Nordin, Mississippi State University
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the spoken explanations provided by a student. Therefore, I taught students that the design of slides accompanying a presentation of a capstone design project should embrace the following principles: • Summarize: Recognize the audience cannot digest complex visual information while listening to a student's verbal explanation; keep the slides focused on high- level approaches, not on formulas, source code, or low-level implementation details. • Simplify: Use a small number of phrases for text; use one or two images that convey high-level concepts. • Visualize: Incorporate clean, focused visual information in the form of diagrams
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determine how reliable each method is, as well as their relative merits and limitations.MethodologyThe data for this paper is taken from the Fall semester 2024 Capstone Senior design course. Partof the project process is for each team to meet with the instructor on a weekly basis. Thisafforded the opportunity to regularly interact with each team and directly assess teamperformance. In parallel, the students filled out teamwork surveys, providing a basis forcomparison. This provides two assessment tools that can be compared, one based on theinstructor's evaluation, and one based on the students’ evaluation.The class consisted of 87 students broken up into 19 teams of 4 to 5 students each. Students inour program are encouraged in their third year to
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- Lianjun Wu, Mercer University; Arash Afshar, Mercer University; Dorina Marta Mihut; Belle Lin; Melanie L McElroy, Mercer University ; Jordi Riera Shephard, Mercer University; Michael James Norenberg, Mercer University
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various forms, including independent study and senior capstone projects.In this research, we present our initial progress on a unique prosthetic hand project which is carriedout by a group of undergraduate students from mechanical engineering and biomedical engineeringbased on student interests, faculty expertise, and available resources. Despite today'sadvancements in prosthetic technology, prosthetic rejection still stands as the main obstacle in thefield of prosthetics. A study conducted by the Medical University of Vienna over a period of twentyyears shows that the rejection rate across all levels of upper limb amputation was 44% [2]. Anothersurvey conducted by Bloorview Research Institute over a twenty-six years period, found thatrejection
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- Gregory J. Mazzaro, The Citadel
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(planar) antennas and digital capture instruments, students canaccomplish synthetic-aperture radar and generate 2-dimensional images of their environments[8]. Depending on equipment available at-hand (possibly borrowed from a nearby PhysicsDepartment), students might conduct experiments such as matching impedances withtransmission-line stubs, measuring the wavelength of a laser using an interferometer, orestimating the permeability of free space [9]. Capstone projects in the senior year might includethe design, construction, and testing of an electronically steerable antenna array, a microwaveFM communication link, or an optical AM communication link.Textbooks can include case studies, to merge fundamentals with engineering practice and
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- Priscilla J Hill, Mississippi State University; Bill B Elmore, Mississippi State University
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questions. Therefore, it is desiredto use a low cost open educational resource (OER) that can be adapted to the needs of eachcourse. One such OER is MyOpenMath, a mathematics based online tool that integrates intocommon learning management systems and is free for both faculty and students. In this paperwe discuss how this tool is currently implemented in a senior capstone design course and a unitoperations laboratory in chemical engineering. This presentation includes characteristics ofMyOpenMath, benefits for instructors, available instructor training, and benefits over usingcurrent quizzes in the Canvas LMS. Not limited to chemical engineering courses, MyOpenMathis applicable to any equation based course. This paper focuses on the faculty
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- Sylmarie Davila-Montero, The Citadel
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. The introductory class to the design process had a special emphasis on theimportance of understanding the problem and the customer, as well as communicating with thoseinvolved in the design of a product, such as marketing personnel, economists, and projectmanagers. The second and the third class focused on providing students with a real-worldproblem, provided by a professor in the Nursing department for a Capstone class, and requesting Table I. EDP exercise guiding questions. Step 1: Brainstorming 1) Define the problem: and Problem Definition a. Are there any questions that you should ask the customer for clarification? 2) Acquire pertinent data
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proposed that actualengineering examples and reporting of case-studies should be used. Similarly Gao [10] discussedthe Task-Based-Instruction and the Project-Based-Instruction pedagogies as learner-centeredapproaches to teach technical writing, the former being based on assigned writing tasks for eachlesson, typically to a student team, while the latter utilizes a team-project for most of thesemester. He emphasized that the core or focus for either approach is not the learning of anystructure and grammar points, but instead communicating the tasks involved in technical writing,although language proficiency still helps students, as it improves student completion of the tasks.Several innovative approaches have been proposed to teach technical