Paper ID #5904Team Leadership on Capstone Design Project TeamsMr. Stephen W. Laguette, University of California, Santa Barbara Stephen Laguette is currently a Lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the College of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) and the Technology Management Pro- gram and is responsible for the undergraduate ME Capstone Design program. He received his BS, MS in ME from the University of California, Los Angeles. His professional career has included executive Research and Development management positions with a number of medical device companies. He has
Paper ID #7334Delivering the Senior Capstone Project: Comparing Year-Long, Single Semesterand Hybrid ApproachesDr. Kevin Schmaltz, Western Kentucky University Kevin Schmaltz has been at Western Kentucky University for ten years, after serving as the Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Lake Superior State University. Before entering the academic world, he was a project engineer for Shell Oil responsible for the design and installation of oil and gas production facilities for offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. He has a combined 23 years of experience as an engineer in industry and in teaching. He teaches a
of research grants.Dr. Kristin L. Wood, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)Lt. Kyle Fitle, United States Air ForceDavid Carte, United States Air Force Page 23.1327.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Using Mini Design Competitions in Capstone Courses to Teach the Design ProcessAbstractFor many senior undergraduate engineering students, the capstone design project is their firstexperience implementing the design process. As a result many capstone teams do not grasp theimportance of the early stages of the design process. To help
capstone design projects are playing anincreasingly important role in meeting the educational objectives of Civil & EnvironmentalEngineering degrees. In recent years both the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) andthe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) have placed a focus on thedevelopment of management, leadership and general business skills. Capstone programs offer anideal environment that provides a synthesis of the fundamental technical engineering skills indeveloping a culminating design while creating an opportunity to focus on all of the professionalpractice skills necessary for students to become future leaders in their field.Recognizing the opportunity to enhance development of these complimentary
this is achieved is the team-based capstone experience, which starts in the fallsemester of junior year and ends in the spring semester of senior year. Our pedagogical approachin the capstone experience is for students to take ownership of their projects and their learning.The design instructors and faculty advisor(s) support and facilitate mastery learning throughdirected and non-directed, group-based and independent, simple and complex, structured andunstructured, project tasks that incrementally expose and reiterate the design process. In thispaper, we not only describe the conceptualization and implementation of this two-year capstoneexperience, but also present outcomes assessment data of student learning during this
a New ProgramABSTRACTThe University of Minnesota Duluth’s Department of Civil Engineering accepted its firststudents in 2008, graduated its first class in 2012, and first offered a capstone design course inthe spring semester, 2012. Groups of five to six students designed a building on a local site.Students organized their teams based on interest in a particular branch of civil engineering,allowing individual students to focus their efforts on a particular subject. Based on feedbackfrom faculty, practicing engineers, and students, several changes were implemented prior to thefall 2012 semester. These changes included making the group size smaller, modifying the gradedsubmissions, and changing the project location. Most significantly, the
challenges and the impacts of their design decisions on the environment are themain drivers for the environmental sustainability integration with the capstone experience. Page 23.785.2Environmental Sustainability Educational ModulesFor addressing environmental sustainability and promoting environmentally consciousengineering practices. a dedicated multi-disciplinary group of faculty have developed theinnovative interdisciplinary course materials for Environmentally Conscious Design andManufacturing13. The development project was funded in part by a grant from the NationalScience Foundation. The developed materials are organized in the six topical
. Page 23.941.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 On Teaching Capstone Design: The Role of Practitioners in the ClassroomAbstract: Teaching civil engineering design through senior projects or capstone design courses,with industry involvement and support, has increased in recent years. The general trend towardincreasing the design component in engineering curricula is part of an effort to better preparegraduates for engineering practice. While some design projects are still of the “made up” typecarried out by individual students, the vast majority of projects today deal with “real-worldproblems” and are usually conducted by student teams. The paper begins first
Mentoring Team Conflicts in Capstone Design: Problems and SolutionsIntroductionTeaming is ubiquitous in design education, yet many project mentors have little or no formaltraining in teamwork or in mentoring teams, and have learned primarily through experience. As aresult, issues associated with teaching teamwork or addressing team dynamics are oftenchallenging for design faculty. Most capstone projects involve multi-person teams, andteamwork is often considered a critical outcome in design courses, but in a recent nationalsurvey, fewer than 50% of capstone faculty responding included instruction in teamwork as akey course component 1. Moreover, as the results from a recent Capstone Design Conferenceindicate, faculty
) and a Master of Science in Curriculum and Instruction from Penn State University (2010). He is course coordinator for the Senior Capstone Design program. He has directed project-based programs for undergraduates with an interest in space-related fields as well as service-learning programs for those interested in community service.Ms. Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Page 23.540.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Enhancing the quality of senior design projects: The introduction of a coordinated sequence of design courses to
projects5,6. Engineering projects may be defined by faculty,industry or even students which also might be real-life engineering problems. Iron RangeEngineering (IRE), as a 100% Project-based Learning (PjBL) program, motivates learning byproviding industry-defined /-mentored projects7,8,9. The IRE students complete the first two yearsof their program at the local community colleges and then join the program for their junior andsenior years. The students must enroll and complete four design courses, each three credits,called Design I, Design II, Capstone Design I and Capstone Design II.At IRE junior and senior students (different upperclassman levels) work closely together as ateam on the same design project. In addition, students with different
comparable courses in the subjects of mechatronics and embeddedsystems given at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. In the capstoneproject described here, students work in teams of about 10 students, over a period of aboutnine months.Six capstone projects are studied; three of these were organized according to scrum [1] andthree according to more formal methods. The six projects involved in total 54 students. Thesix capstone projects were divided into two groups, following two different courses. Studentsof both courses took a course in project management, either prior to the capstone course or inparallel. One of the two project management courses emphasized agile methods, the othermore formal methods. The student teams who followed
models for effective collaboration between universities and industry in studentdesign projects in the area of embedded computing systems. The first of these at ClarksonUniversity is a senior capstone design project in computer engineering. The second at CaliforniaUniversity of Pennsylvania is a junior level course in embedded systems for students in computerengineering technology or electrical engineering technology. In each case the student work isbased on the Freescale Cup platform offered by the Freescale Corporation. The Freescale Cupplatform is used in the Freescale Cup competition sponsored by the Freescale Corporation thatchallenges students to design an autonomous model race car that must follow a black line trackas fast as possible
. Page 23.774.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Integrating Interdisciplinary Project-Based Design Streams into Upper-Level Electrical Engineering Courses: A Methodology toward Implementing Applications-Oriented, Associative Project Streams into Electrical Engineering CoursesAbstractSemester-long design projects associated with capstone Senior Design courses are nothing newto engineering education.1 And, occasionally, incorporating those semester-long design projectsinto specific, design-based courses has also been well-documented.2 But, integrating semester-long design projects into all of the students’ “design-based” and “non-design-based
typicaldesign process-to-semester mapping for capstone projects, (2) a design process rubric applicableto engineering design projects in the curriculum, and (3) a mapping between the design processand engineering design tools taught within the curriculum. The design process guide ispresented as a tool which can be used to guide students through directed exploration of thedesign process during a first design class as well as to scaffold students’ undirected designprocess exploration. Implementation of the guide during the engineering design sequence will bediscussed as well as the lessons learned after applying the guide to senior and junior projects as agrading rubric, feedback mechanism, and as an in-class guide for student reflection on a
Paper ID #6224Talkin’ Teams – Strategies for Elevating Student and Team Skill Developmentover Project CompletionDr. Greg Kremer, Ohio University Robe Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering, and the director of the ”Designing to Make A Difference” ME senior capstone design experience. Page 23.1131.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Talkin' Teams – Strategies for Elevating Student and Team Skill Development over Project CompletionAbstractThe purpose of this
design courses into every year of their program,while others provide students with a single capstone design experience in the final year.While some institutions use problem based learning approaches, others use guidedexperiential learning to teach engineering design. Design courses also vary by the source ofthe projects. In some institutions, instructors design the courses while in other institutions;students propose their design projects. A recent trend has been the use of industry-led andservice-based projects for capstone design courses. Projects often vary by team size and mayconsist of teams of one to as many as five members.A review of the literature reveals that there has been considerable investigation into thetechniques used to teach
Paper ID #7451Team-Based Design-and-Build Projects in a Large Freshman Mechanical En-gineering ClassDr. Mario W. Gomes, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE)Dr. Elizabeth A. DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) Dr. Elizabeth A. DeBartolo is an associate professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She works with students on the design of assistive devices and rehabili- tation aids, and characterizing the mechanical behavior of materials. Dr. DeBartolo serves on her college’s leadership teams for both multi-disciplinary capstone design and outreach program
issue tool to manage their projects. On the otherhand, various user statistics obtained from the system allowed the faculty advisors to monitor thefrequency of each student's contributions and to quickly review the content and quality. Thesystem made a significant impact on the outcome of the project results. This paper will presentissues in deploying the tools, the best practices for using these tools, and assessing students’performance in capstone design courses.1. IntroductionTo become successful engineers, students must learn technical knowledge, good communication,skills, and teamwork skills. Traditional lecture-based coursework focuses on providing a solidtheoretical foundation and analytical skills for each of the various disciplines. On
, Development,Production, Installation, and Servicing, requires a company’s product design and developmentprocess to include specific components.1 These include design and development planning, designinput, design output, design review, design verification and validation, and design transfer. Themore our students become familiar with each of these components, the better prepared they willbe for careers in industry. Ideally, capstone design projects would involve each of thesecomponents. In situations where this is not feasible, lectures regarding the details of each designcontrol component can be included in the capstone course.A recent survey of capstone design instructors indicates that the duration of capstone designcourses varies in length.2 As a
design processhas been the subject of many studies of how best to teach the concepts, tools, andprocesses11,20,22,25,29,32,40,42,54,60. In a comprehensive review of design teaching and learning, Dymet al. note that designing “effective solutions to meet social needs”(22 p.103) is a fundamental skillfor engineering graduates and that “design thinking is complex” (22 p.103). The process of design isoften taught in a “crawl, walk, run” approach by introducing fundamental concepts that areapplied in a number of project based learning (PBL) experiences of increasing complexitythroughout the curriculum43. These experiences may range from reverse engineering exercises19,small design projects, to capstone design experiences20,43 with a corporate
Paper ID #5944Building Student Capacity for High Performance TeamworkDr. Denny C. Davis P.E., Washington State University Dr. Davis is Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at Washington State Uni- versity. For two decades he taught capstone design courses with multidisciplinary teams and developed instructional materials and assessments that enhance student team success. He is a Fellow of ASEE and an active consultant on engineering design education.Mr. Ronald R Ulseth P. E., Iron Range Engineering Ron Ulseth directs and instructs in the Iron Range Engineering program in Virginia, Minnesota and
approximately 100 papers and has been awarded over $3 million of research grants.Dr. Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin Dr. Richard H. Crawford is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and is the Temple Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellow No. 3. He is also Director of the Design Projects program in Mechanical Engineering. He received his BSME from Louisiana State University in 1982, and his MSME in 1985 and Ph.D. in 1989, both from Purdue University. He teaches mechanical engineering design and geometry modeling for design. Dr. Crawford’s research interests span topics in computer- aided mechanical design and design theory and methodology. Dr. Crawford is co-founder of the
experience through an engineering-based productdevelopment capstone project that also incorporates the key principles of systems engineering.This teaching model is delivered via an Integrated Design & Manufacturing Infrastructure(IDMI), which incorporates virtual resources, such as Computer-Aided Design (CAD) systems,as well as physical resources, such as additive manufacturing machines like 3D printers. Themodel utilizes a cloud computing-based IT infrastructure for collaborative, distributedengineering and can be implemented at either high school or undergraduate freshmen level tointroduce students to a variety of Engineering Design related activities in a holistic fashion.In Section 1, a brief overview of the key elements of the teaching
., Kavanaugh, S. (1996) Capstone senior design at the University of Alabama. Proceedings of the 26th IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 1, pp. 258-262.2. Newman, D. J. and Amir, A. R. (2001) Innovative first year aerospace design course at MIT. Journal of Engineering Education, 90 (3), pp. 375-382.3. Raucent, J. (2004) What kind of project in the basic year of an engineering curriculum. Journal of Engineering Design, 15 (1), pp. 107-121.4. Song, S. and Agogino, A. M. (2004) Insights on designers' sketching activities in new product design teams. Proceedings of the ASME Design Theory and Methods Conference, pp. 351-360.5. Saunders-Smits, G. N., Roling, P., Brügemann, V., Timmer, N., Melkert, J. (2012) Using the Engineering
beenstructured as an engineering design report and uses engineering design terminology. Selectedheadings include both design-focused and education-focused terminology to assist the reader innavigating this structure.Institutional and ProgramThe University of Toronto is a large, publicly funded, research-intensive Canadian university.The Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering offers undergraduate and graduate engineeringprograms, and admits approximately 1300 undergraduate students per year into one of 10programs. All of these programs require that their students take a capstone engineering designcourse in their senior year, and a cornerstone engineering design and communication course intheir freshman year.Our program, the Division of Engineering
this course the Curriculum Development Team was composed of selectedinstructors from across the state to create a web-based book (Portable Document Format and/oreBook) and online course that teaches the principles of drafting and design at the process level topromote curriculum acceptance and implementations from K-12 to Post-Secondary Education.The team members of this project were given the task to teach the underlying basic principles ofdrafting in generic terms and then supply some supplemental training specific to each CADsoftware package. This approach treats the specific CAD software as just a tool to learn theprocess so the student can solve the problem much like a calculator is to math (just a tool, it doesnot matter if it is a Casio
community oriented solutions that are the focus of the research we present below.Project-Based LearningProject-Based Learning (PBL) is an experiential mode of teaching that directly addresses thedevelopment of expertise through increased number of hours in-situ.25 There are several specificfeatures of PBL that have made it successful. Engineers are involved in capstone engineeringprojects where they experience the importance of issues relating to the sociality of a particularenvironment and learn the impact of contextual issues as they move through the project. PBLstudents are grouped with people from diverse backgrounds, allowing multiple perspectives on agiven subject through interactions among group members. Engineers learn to work
theirsources of intellectual contributions to their design.It was theorized by the authors that presenting an exemplar prior to setting the students onto adesign project could alter, if not hinder, the number and type of creative solutions generated bythe students. Of particular interest is whether the presence of a prototype exemplar contaminatesthe design process for novice designers. That is, does the prototype exemplar cause novicedesigners to fixate on particular design features thereby limiting creativity or does it help them toimprove the performance of their designs?The concept of designers fixating on particular design features is not new to the study ofengineering design. Jansson and Smith1 were among the first who “clearly and
engineers—those who have developed the competencies to create value through the realization of complex engineered systems.Dr. Dirk Ifenthaler, University of FreiburgProf. Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma Dr. Siddique is currently a professor at the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering of Uni- versity of Oklahoma. His research interests are in areas of product design, product platform design, and engineering education. He is the faculty advisor of the Sooner Racing Team (FSAE) and coordinator of the Mechanical Engineering Capstone Program. Page 23.480.1 c American Society