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Tricks of the Trade II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adrian Ieta, State University of New York at Oswego; Rachid Manseur, Oswego State University College; Thomas E. Doyle, McMaster University

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New Engineering Educators

MINDS Many new faculty may face challenges related to effective teaching techniques. Student perception of good teaching may often be different from the instructors' opinions. Finding the technique that merges the two perspectives can be challenging and vital. Project-based learning has been documented to be a guaranteed procedure for increasing students' interest in the taught topic, while developing skills that also often reward the instructor with good student evaluations. We present the lessons learned in several capstone courses taught by three instructors at three higher education institutions. Different procedures are used. Although the instructors use different techniques

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Design Teamwork

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen W. Laguette, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Design in Engineering Education

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

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Capstone Projects, Design Projects, and Teamwork

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacob T Allenstein, The Ohio State University; Bob Rhoads, Ohio State University; Peter Rogers, The Ohio State University; Clifford A Whitfield, Ohio State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

of a Multidisciplinary Engineering Capstone Design Program Page 23.560.2AbstractThe Engineering Education Innovation Center (EEIC) at The Ohio State University offersstudents through its Multidisciplinary Engineering Capstone Design Program, a broad range ofopportunities for both engineering and non-engineering students to work directly with industrypersonnel on company-sponsored product and process design projects. The EEIC providesstudents an opportunity to apply their academics and practical skills to real-world problemswhile working on a multidisciplinary team. The program has been arranged as a two-semesterdesign sequence beginning with a pre-capstone course for the

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Capstone Design

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Schmaltz, Western Kentucky University

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Design in Engineering Education

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

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Challenges in Engineering, Models in Professional Programs, Capstone Design and Function Generator for Educational Environment

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Aidoo, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Shannon M. Sipes, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; James H. Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Matthew D. Lovell P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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International

preferences. Each design team includes four to five seniors, a faculty coach, the client,and the course instructor. There is no charge for the design projects other than direct costs. Theseyearlong, client-based projects have been the senior design capstone model at Rose-Hulmansince 1988.The four learning objectives for client-based, senior design projects include: (1)problem-based learning (of the civil engineering design process), (2) communication proficiency,(3) team-work skills, and (4) project management orientation. The year-long experience containsmany key elements and deliverables to achieve these learning objectives.In 2005, members of the civil engineering faculty decided it would be beneficial for students toventure into the international

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Capstone Projects, Design Projects, and Teamwork

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tomas Enrique Estrada, Elizabethtown College

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Paper ID #6306A Multidisciplinary Capstone Project Experience in a Small Liberal Arts Col-lege Setting: The Hybrid Solar TrackerDr. Tomas Enrique Estrada, Elizabethtown College Page 23.72.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 A Multidisciplinary Capstone Project Experience in a Small Liberal Arts College Setting: The Hybrid Solar TrackerAbstractOver the past two decades, the overall scope and expectations for capstone projects inundergraduate engineering project has evolved. There has been an increased

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Capstone and Senior Design Projects Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Martin William Weiser, Eastern Washington University; Hani Serhal Saad, Eastern Washington University; N.M. Awlad HOSSAIN, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Technology

Page 23.730.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Incorporating Engineering Challenges into Capstone Design and Senior Project CoursesAbstractThe Engineering & Design Department of Eastern Washington University (EWU) recently addeda Mechanical Engineering (ME) degree to the existing Mechanical Engineering Technology(MET) program. The ME program is more theoretical and requires more advanced mathematicswhere the MET program is more hands-on with mathematics requirements up to Calculus II.However, the programs are taught side-by-side and complement each other. When we developedthe ME program we wanted to maintain as much of the strong hands-on aspect of MET

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Capstone and Senior Design Projects Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Byron G. Garry, South Dakota State University

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Engineering Technology

Paper ID #6033Effect of Previous Experience and Attitudes on Capstone Project Achieve-mentProf. Byron G. Garry, South Dakota State University BYRON GARRY is an Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Coordinator in the Department of Construction & Operations Management in the College of Engineering at South Dakota State University and has taught the EET Project Management/Capstone course sequence since 2001. Page 23.462.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Effect

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Capstone Design and Innovations in ECE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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George York, U.S. Air Force Academy; Erlind George Royer, Academy Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Research, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, USAF Academy, CO; Daniel Harold Harold; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy

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Electrical and Computer

-University Unmanned Systems Capstone Design ProjectAbstractIn this paper we discuss the assessment methods for a senior capstone design project involvingteams from three geographically separated universities, as well as the challenges the studentsfaced and lessons learned. The project title was the Joint Cooperative Unmanned SystemsInitiative (JCUSI). Each team was tasked with developing an unmanned autonomous systemoperating in a different medium (air, water, and ground) to cooperatively work together tocomplete a mission of protecting a harbor. JCUSI is unique in that the customer funding theproject will most likely employ the students involved either as engineers implementing futureunmanned systems or as operators

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Capstone Projects, Design Projects, and Teamwork

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emil H Salib, James Madison University; Joshua Alfred Erney, James Madison University; Matthew Edwin Schumaker

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

solution of a problem of their choice.The literature on capstone project experiences is fairly robust particularly in terms of thediversity of the approaches explored. A team at Ohio Northern University (ONU) asserted in [2]that students who get involved in extracurricular design activities instead of the mandatory seniorCapstone Projects tend to be highly motivated, gain the Engineering and Technology experiencethey need and have better chances in finding jobs upon graduation. There is also a growing trendto encourage students to take a more active role in their own education where the instructor is afacilitator of learning. In this model [3], the emphasis is more on learning and less on teaching,and it requires instructors to incorporate more

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Capstone Projects, Design Projects, and Teamwork

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael W. Prairie, Norwich University; Gregory Wight P.E., Norwich University; Peter Kjeer, Harvard University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

immediate change to be made is to move the project earlier inthe semester. It was originally deployed near the end of the semester as a four-week “capstone”project for the course so that other projects could be done before it that would develop some ofthe necessary background. This worked well for some teams, but not for others that had otherend-of-semester requirements that generated conflicts at the end, and the final system testoccurred on the last day of classes, lasting into the early evening. A final complaint was that thescope of some of the tasks, although technically appropriate, was too limited to engage allstudents in all groups. This was true for the larger teams across the disciplines, but the membersof the smaller teams appeared to be

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Capstone Manufacturing and Design

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Priya A. Manohar, Robert Morris University; Cathleen Jones, Robert Morris University

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Manufacturing

, Statics andStrength of Materials, Engineering Graphics, and Production Engineering. The marketingstudents are also ready to take on the challenge of Marketing Research in their junior year. TheIDS course also prepares the engineering students to take on the Capstone Design course in theirsenior year. The second novel feature of IDS project is that it involved concurrent delivery oftwo junior level courses where the course content of the courses was synchronized. The coursesinvolved in this project were ENGR 3650: Product and Tool Design (Engineering Department),and MARK 3700: Marketing Research (Marketing Department). Both the classes have the samenumber of credits (3) available to the students. Engineers take ENGR 3650 while marketingstudents

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Capstone Manufacturing and Design

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Somnath Chattopadhyay, Georgia Southern University

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Manufacturing

Paper ID #8093Exploration of a Student Project in a Materials Processing CourseProf. Somnath Chattopadhyay, Georgia Southern University Page 23.577.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 EXPLORATION OF A STUDENT PROJECT IN A MATERIALS PROCESSING COURSEABSTRACTAs a part of the laboratory module for the junior level course in Materials Processing, a projecthas been introduced where the students work two hours every week for one semester. They areeach expected to fabricate a hacksaw from the

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Capstone Manufacturing and Design

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Chiou, Drexel University ; Michael G Mauk P.E., Drexel University; M. Eric Carr, Drexel University

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Manufacturing

-longeducational journey (three quarters) that takes an idea generated by a student or an industrialsponsor and culminates in a product or project. This course is an excellent capstone experience,which requires both teamwork and individual skills in solving a modern industrial problem.Senior design projects in fall, winter, and spring quarters bring the students, faculty, andindustrial partners together to see the student’s results and to give them the additional experienceof public presentation of their work7-10.The purpose of this paper is to describe a capstone senior design project involved in theenvironmentally conscious manufacturing11. The experience to improve industrial workingenvironment and process costs in the project is discussed. Our senior

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Capstone Design

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Anders Wahlquist, US Air Force Academy; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Kristin L. Wood P.E., Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD); Kyle Fitle, U.S. Air Force Academy; David Carte, U.S. Air Force Academy

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Design in Engineering Education

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

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Perspectives and Approaches to Teaching Simulation and Design-Based Courses

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Lisa G. Bullard, North Carolina State University; Warren D. Seider, University of Pennsylvania; Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University

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Chemical Engineering

questions. Additionally, the survey seeks to bring out the most innovative and effectiveapproaches to teaching the course as cited by instructors. Comparison with a related surveyconducted in 1965 is made where appropriate.IntroductionThis survey represents the continuation of a series of surveys of undergraduate curricular topicsbegun in 1957 by the AIChE Education Projects Committee and more recently resumed by theAIChE Education Division. This paper presents the statistical and demographic results for thefourth in the series of surveys conducted by the Education Division.Survey BackgroundThe Capstone Design course is the topic of the 2012 survey. The aforementioned AIChEEducation Projects committee previously conducted a survey on the same

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Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technolog Programs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mudasser Fraz Wyne, National University; Raul Soto Jr

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Computing & Information Technology

lectures,interviews, events, etc. under different settings as well as use of equipment and humanresources. In current setup a request can be submitted, processed and managed manuallyby the library staff, whereas users demand a faster and a more efficient way of submittingmultimedia requests as it would produce faster turnaround times for scheduled projects.Therefore, a group of students was assigned the task, as their capstone project, toevaluate, develop and deploy an automated system to handle the flood of multimediarequests being received by library staff. In this paper we report a capstone experiencegained by undergraduate students. The students were required to design and implement aweb based system for not only handling the requisitions for

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Aerospace Division Technical Session 2

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Martin James Brennan, University of Texas, Austin; Adam Wayne Nokes, The University of Texas at Austin; Wallace T. Fowler P.E., University of Texas, Austin

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Aerospace

Texas Academy of Distinguished Teachers. He is a fellow of both the AIAA and the ASEE. He served as president of ASEE of 2000-2001. Page 23.1303.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Using a Graduate Student Developed Trajectory Generation Program to Facilitate Undergraduate Spacecraft / Mission Capstone Design ProjectsIntroductionA major stumbling block in undergraduate spacecraft/mission design projects is the earlygeneration of plausible baseline trajectories for missions outside of Earth orbit. Many studentteams rely almost totally

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Capstone Manufacturing and Design

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yalcin Ertekin, Drexel University (Engineering Technology); Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng.)

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Manufacturing

technologists various advancedskills that can be used in their careers. Overall, many different fields of engineering can benefitfrom this application, enabling the development of skill and knowledge in many differentengineering aspects and processes. As this capstone design project provides opportunities forstudents to design & manufacture, it stimulates the students’ interest in real-world productrealization. As manufacturing laboratories are very expensive to develop, this project can also beadapted at other institutions that have limited funding to improve manufacturing processfacilities.Background In Drexel University’s School of Technology and Professional Studies, many courses relatedto robotics, design, and materials are offered to the

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Capstone and Senior Design Projects Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University; Seth William Adams

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Engineering Technology

Paper ID #5832EET Capstone Student Project: Multi-sensor device to monitor external at-mospheric conditions and GPS location for evaluating rust potential on coilsDr. Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University Aleksandr Sergeyev is currently an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Technology program in the School of Technology at Michigan Technological University. Dr. Aleksandr Sergeyev is earned his bachelor degree in electrical engineering in Moscow University of Electronics and Automation in 1995. He obtained the Master degree in Physics from Michigan Technological University in 2004 and the

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Capstone and Senior Design Projects Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Antonio Francisco Mondragon, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Adriana Becker-Gomez, Rochester Institute of Technology (KGCOE); Carmen A Bovalino III, Rochester Institute of Technology, Student; Michael B Jones, RIT; Derrick Brazil, Rochester Institute of Technology; Michael R Caldwell, Graduate Student Rochester Institute of Technology; sajin george, RIT

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Engineering Technology

Engineer and Project Leader for the Automotive Industry in the area of Embedded and Software Systems. She also worked as an Assistant to the Dean of the Graduate Studies of Engineering Division at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico in 1995 .In 2000 she was a grader at Texas A&M University. In 2001 she interned in the Preamp R&D SP Group at Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, and at Intersil Corporation, Dallas / Milpitas, as a Design Engineer, in the High Performance Analog Group in 2005. She worked at Intersil as a Senior Design Engineer in the Analog and Mixed Signal-Data Converters Group. In 2009 she joined Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York as an adjunct professor in ECT-ET

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Capstone Design

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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E James Nelson, Brigham Young University; Tatevik Christensen; Fernando S Fonseca, Brigham Young University; A. Woodruff Miller, Brigham Young University

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Design in Engineering Education

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

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Capstone Design

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

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Design in Engineering Education

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

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Capstone Design

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David A Saftner, University of Minnesota Duluth; Sara D. Ojard, University of Minnesota Duluth; Eshan V. Dave, University of Minnesota, Duluth; Nathan William Johnson, University of Minnesota Duluth; Eil Kwon; Rebecca Teasley, Civil Engineering University of Minnesota Duluth

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Design in Engineering Education

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

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The D/M/A of CE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel M. Dulaski, Northeastern University

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Community Engagement Division

Transportation Engineers (ITE) student chapter. Page 23.721.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Improving Students’ Capstone Experience with Community ParticipationSenior design projects are a culmination of students’ academic and lifelong lessons, and as aresult, should be meaningful, have multiple outcomes, and far-reaching benefits. Moreover, theyshould challenge students and provide a real-world experience. One component of the designprocess it that is often overlooked is community involvement. Local citizens are a critical part ofthe project success and must be included.In order to

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ETAC/ABET RELATED OUTCOME BASED ISSUES

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wesley L. Stone, Western Carolina University; Guanghsu A. Chang, Western Carolina University

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Engineering Technology

Education, 2013 An Evolving Capstone Course used in ABET AssessmentAbstractThe Department of Engineering and Technology at Western Carolina University (WCU) hasdeveloped a capstone design course sequence that provides students with industry-relevantprojects, while generating an excellent opportunity to assess many of the ABET (AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology) student outcomes, commonly called “a through k.” Inits sixth year the two-semester course sequence sees a healthy list of projects that provide cross-functional opportunities for teams composed of undergraduate students in EngineeringTechnology (ET), Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET), and ElectricalEngineering (EE).Each of the capstone projects

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Design in Engineering Education (DEED) Engineering Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohamed E. El-Sayed, Kettering University; Jacqueline A. El-Sayed, Kettering University

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Design in Engineering Education

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

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Capstone Design Courses and Tools in support of Systems Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ertunga C Ozelkan, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Peter L Schmidt P.E., University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Devin Hatley, UNC Charlotte; Kathleen Ann Boutin-Pasterz, UNC Charlotte

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Systems Engineering

Reduction andRecycling met on a weekly basis to discuss the project and ensure it met everyone’s objectives.Throughout the process, both groups realized that the value of such a partnership reaches into thecore of their mission at the university.This work will detail the execution of two capstone design projects with significant sustainabilitycontent. Project scope and deliverables will be discussed, along with project outcomes andlessons learned during the conduct of these projects. Project disposition and future work are alsodetailed. Links between sustainability and accreditation criteria are discussed.Literature ReviewWhile there are many papers that are worth mentioning in the literature for sustainabilityeducation for engineers, we have to

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Teaching and Assessing Sustainability and Life Long Learning

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Katherine Watson, Georgia Institute of Technology; Elise M. Barrella, James Madison University; Thomas A. Wall, Georgia Institute of Technology; Caroline R. Noyes, Georgia Institute of Technology; Michael O. Rodgers, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

for capturing the extent to which studentsengage in sustainable design are not currently available. Given that the ultimate goal ofsustainable engineering education is to train engineers to incorporate sustainabilityconsiderations into their professional practices, it is critical that a tool be developed to evaluatesustainable design skills.Study OutlineThe goal of this study is to develop and apply a sustainable design rubric that can be used toevaluate student abilities to incorporate sustainability principles into capstone design projects.Specifically, the rubric was designed to answer the following research questions: (1) What arethe expectations related to sustainable design for student projects? (2) To what extent dostudents actually

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Trends and Applications in Curricula and the Capstone Experience

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel M. Dulaski PE, Northeastern University

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Civil Engineering

“real-world” project, others continue to offer a traditional project that falls under therubric of “textbook” problems. Although there may be sound, legitimate support for offering a“textbook” capstone, including the magnitude of work involved for instructors, using a real-world project offers tremendous benefit.In order to ensure that the students’ capstone experience is true-to-life, and emulates consultingfirms, the transportation capstone program in the Department of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering (CEE) at Northeastern University (NU) has created a program that benefits thestudents and the surrounding communities. The 14 week semester emulates a major project in aconsulting firm with project requirements, deliverables, and community