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Prototype Exemplars: The Path to Effective Design or to Design Fixation?

Conference Session: Design Pedagogy and Curriculum 2
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Thomas F. Schubert Jr. P.E., University of San Diego; Frank G Jacobitz, University of San Diego; Michael S. Morse, University of San Diego; Truc T. Ngo, University of San Diego
Tagged Divisions: Design in Engineering Education

functional groups: laboratory sectionswhere a prototype exemplar was present and laboratory sections where no example was provided.Assessment of the prototype exemplar impact was accomplished through a two-pronged approach.First, through photographs and performance data taken at multiple stages in the design experienceand analyzed by the faculty, and second, through a twelve-statement survey given to all students. Inaddition to assigning numerical values (on a scale from 1 to 6) for their responses to the surveystatements, students were asked to respond with short, written statements.This study is in its second year. Survey results from the first year indicated similar backgroundsbetween control and exemplar groups as well as similar internal team

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Integrating Interdisciplinary Project-Based Design Streams into Upper-Level Electrical Engineering Courses: A Methodology toward Implementing Applications-Oriented, Associative Project Streams into Electrical Engineering Courses

Conference Session: Design Pedagogy and Curriculum 2
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Scott Anthony Grenquist, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Tagged Divisions: Design in Engineering Education

” engineeringcourses throughout their entire engineering curriculum represents a new “authentic-learning”approach toward teaching engineering to students. Medical Schools and Law Schoolspredominantly use authentic learning, or experiential learning, techniques to teach our futuredoctors and lawyers.3 Engineering education has been slow to follow their lead in this regard,basing almost all instruction on lecture-based and laboratory-based teaching methodologies,rather than authentic learning methodologies. However, in the Spring semester of 2010, aneducational initiative was begun to determine the value of integrating semester-long, Project-Based Design Streams (PBDSs) into the entire electrical engineering curriculum. Due to theexceptional response by the

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The Quality of Engineering Decision-Making in Student Design Teams

Conference Session: Design Methodology and Evaluation 1
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Tagged Divisions: Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #7008The Quality of Engineering Decision-Making in Student Design TeamsMr. Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University, West Lafayette Nicholas is a Ph.D. student in engineering education at Purdue University. His research interests include engineering design, team learning, and instructional laboratories. He has conference publications on cooperative learning, engineering laboratories, innovation, and design.Dr. Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette Senay Purzer is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education and is the Director of Assessment Research for the Institute for P-12 Engineering

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Integrating 'Design Challenges' into a Freshman Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Course

Conference Session: Design in Engineering Education (DEED) Engineering Poster Session
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Gerald Sullivan, Virginia Military Institute; Jon-michael Hardin P.E., Virginia Military Institute
Tagged Divisions: Design in Engineering Education

-basedprojects now constitute about 40% of the current course curriculum, with the remainder of thelabs/projects consisting of both standard “follow the procedure and report a result” style oflaboratory and skills development labs, such as basic welding and machining. It should be notedthat the „design challenge‟ hovercraft project has been implemented without additional staff orspace resources.The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of design-based projects referred to as „designchallenges‟, on the retention of students in the Mechanical Engineering program, as well as toexplore the preferences of engineering students towards design-based projects versusconventional laboratories. In the first section of the paper, the original lab sequence

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Computer Engineering Design Projects in Collaboration With Industry Sponsored Competitions

Conference Session: Design in Engineering Education (DEED) Engineering Poster Session
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Robert A. Meyer, Clarkson University; John McLellan, Freescale Semiconductor; Jeffrey S Sumey, California University of Pennsylvania
Tagged Divisions: Design in Engineering Education

. Capstone Design ProjectsAt Clarkson we have an ABET accredited degree program in Computer Engineering witha senior design experience that requires teams of students to design, build, test anddemonstrate a fully functional embedded system. The course is a one semester, six-credithour course with both scheduled lecture and laboratory time. For the past two years wehave used the Freescale Cup platform as the basis for student projects in this course. Wediscuss our course objectives, the Freescale Cup car platform, our assessment process,and we present assessment data from these past two years. We believe the Freescale Cupplatform and competition provide a meaningful design experience for students and meetsthe objectives for a capstone design

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An assessment of student needs in project-based mechanical design courses

Conference Session: Design Methodology and Evaluation 2
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Donal Padraic Holland, Trinity College Dublin; Conor Walsh P.E., Harvard University; Gareth J. Bennett, Trinity College Dublin
Tagged Divisions: Design in Engineering Education

Centre for Design Re- search. Dr. Bennett obtained his B.A.I. Mechanical Engineering Degree in 1994 and his M.Sc. degree through research in 1996, both from the University of Dublin, T.C.D. In 1994 Dr. Bennett obtained a research fellowship to work in the national Nuclear and Technological Research Institute (I.T.N.) in Lis- bon, Portugal to carry out work in fluid elastic instability, vibration analysis and signal processing. After completion of his M.Sc., degree Dr. Bennett worked for a year in a national fluid mechanics research laboratory (L.E.G.I.) in Grenoble, France performing research in the area of Computerised Fluid Dy- namics (CFD) as applied to cavitational flows of turbine blades. On returning to Ireland

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Connecting Design Problem Characteristics to Prototyping Choices to Form a Prototyping Strategy

Conference Session: Design Pedagogy and Curriculum 1
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Bradley Adam Camburn, University of Texas, Austin; Brock U Dunlap, University of Texas, Austin; Vimal Kumar Viswanathan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Julie S Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin; Kevin Otto, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Kristin L. Wood, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
Tagged Divisions: Design in Engineering Education

. Wood completed his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering (Division of Engineering and Applied Science) at the California Institute of Technology, where he was an AT&T Bell Laboratories Ph.D. Scholar. Dr. Wood was formerly a Professor of Mechanical engineering at the University of Texas (1989-2011), where he established a computational and experimental laboratory for research in engineering design and manufac- Page 23.330.1 turing. He was a National Science Foundation Young Investigator, the Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor in Engineering and University Distinguished

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Integration of Environmental Sustainability with Capstone Experience

Conference Session: Design in Engineering Education (DEED) Engineering Poster Session
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Mohamed E. El-Sayed, Kettering University; Jacqueline A. El-Sayed, Kettering University
Tagged Divisions: Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #8110Integration of Environmental Sustainability with Capstone ExperienceDr. Mohamed E. El-Sayed, Kettering University Dr. Mohamed El-Sayed is a pioneer and technical leader in vehicle integration, vehicle development process, and optimization. Through his research, teaching, and practice he made numerous original con- tributions to advance the state of the art in automotive development, performance, vehicle development process, lean, and integrated design and manufacturing. Currently, Dr. El-Sayed is a professor of Mechan- ical Engineering and director of the Vehicle Durability and Integration Laboratory at

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The development of pre-service design educator's capacity to make professional judgments on design capability using Adaptive Comparative Judgment

Conference Session: Design in Engineering Education (DEED) Engineering Poster Session
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Patrick Rowsome, University of Limerick; Niall Seery, University of Limerick; Diarmaid Lane, University of Limerick; Seamus Gordon, University of Limerick
Tagged Divisions: Design in Engineering Education

a shift in the cognitive research where affect, context, culture andhistory were taken into account. This showed a move from the laboratory to the classroom.Next, perspectives on learning in context are explored and also Clancy’s view of situatedcognition will be examined.Learning: legitimate peripheral participation.Legitimate peripheral participation is described as an analytical viewpoint on learning, a wayof understanding learning. Lave and Wenger7 outline that learning through legitimateperipheral participation takes place no matter which educational form provides a context forlearning or whether there is any intentional educational distinction form at all. Brown et al.11believed that learning is a process of enculturation. This is

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An Innovative Two-Year Engineering Design Capstone Experience at James Madison University

Conference Session: Capstone Design
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Elise M. Barrella, James Madison University; Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University; Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University; Justin J Henriques, James Madison University; Daniel Devon Imholte
Tagged Divisions: Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #7464An Innovative Two-Year Engineering Design Capstone Experience at JamesMadison UniversityDr. Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University OLGA PIERRAKOS is an associate professor and founding faculty member of the James Madison Uni- versity Department of Engineering, which graduated its inaugural class in May 2012. At JMU, Dr. Pier- rakos is the Director of the Center for Innovation in Engineering Education (CIEE) and Director of the Advanced Thermal Fluids Laboratory. Her interests in engineering education research center around recruitment and retention, engineer identity, engineering design instruction and

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Can Pedagogical Strategies Affect Students’ Creativity? Testing a Choice-Based Approach to Design and Problem-Solving in Technology, Design, and Engineering Education

Conference Session: Design Methodology and Evaluation 2
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Jennifer Buelin-Biesecker, North Carolina State University; Eric N. Wiebe, North Carolina State University
Tagged Divisions: Design in Engineering Education

classroom projects and assessments for students and teachers that will spur studentstoward meeting their creative potential. Creativity was shown to be a successful studentoutcome of the game art and design project, and the Consensual Assessment Technique showspromise as a method for measuring creativity in technology education laboratory activities aswell as the integrated STEM learning environment.References 1. Todd, S. M., & Shinzato, S. (1999). Thinking for the future: Developing higher-level thinking and creativity for students in Japan--and elsewhere. Childhood Education, 75(6), 342-45. 2. Lewis, T. (2009). Creativity in technology education: providing children with glimpses of their creative potential. International

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Redmine as a Web-Based Collaboration Tool in Engineering Design Courses

Conference Session: Design Teamwork
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Junichi Kanai, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Mark Anderson, Rensselaer
Tagged Divisions: Design in Engineering Education

the other hand,laboratory courses and engineering design courses are often used to teach communication andteamwork skills 1. Typical communication skills include, but are not limited to, maintaininglab/design notebooks, writing technical reports, and oral presentations. A project-based coursemay also include writing a proposal.On-line collaboration tools, also known as groupware, are widely used in many organizations toimprove their productivity and the quality of their products. Currently, Wikipedia includes over95 software tools 2. Types of collaboration tools include bulletin (discussion) boards for threadeddiscussions, public folders for sharing documents, and version control systems for concurrentediting software source codes or CAD

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Ingenuity Lab: Making and Engineering through Design Challenges at a Science Center

Conference Session: Best of DEED
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Jennifer Wang, University of California, Berkeley
Tagged Divisions: Design in Engineering Education

, 26(3), 27-39.25. Committee on K-12 Engineering Education. (2009). Summary. In L. Katehi, G. Pearson, and M. Feder (Eds.), Engineering in K-12 Education: Understanding the Status and Improving the Prospects (pp. 1-14). Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press.26. Bamberger, Jeanne. 1991. The laboratory for making things. In D. Schon, ed., The Reflective Turn: Case Studies in and on Educational Practice. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.27. Kumar, S. and Hsiao, J.K. (2007). Engineers learn “soft skills the hard way”: Planting a seed of leadership in engineering classes. Leadership and Management in Engineering, 7(1), 18-23.28. Tsang, E., Van Haneghan, J., Johnson, B., Newman, E. J., & Van Eck, S. (2001). A report on

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On Teaching Capstone Design: The Role of Practitioners in the Classroom

Conference Session: Design in Engineering Education (DEED) Engineering Poster Session
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Waddah Akili, Iowa State University
Tagged Divisions: Design in Engineering Education

and thus may underemphasize approximationskills(13).Attempts to rectify the situation would require research and development and eventuallyinstigating potential changes in curricula and teaching methods.4) Physical modeling and experimentation: Unfortunately, the advent of the computer and itsimpact on teaching engineering has made it easy to produce computer-based models at theexpense of physical models. This fact is behind a general trend of teaching applied engineeringsubjects with minimal students’ involvement with physical set-ups including laboratoryexperiments. Carrying out laboratory experiments and generating experimental data, visiting aproject site, and using pencil and paper to produce a schematic, are gradually fading away