based biocompatibility module with laboratory and lecture components that can be easilyintegrated into an engineering or biomaterials course.Within the biomedical engineering curriculum at Bucknell University, a senior-level fabricationand experimental design course is integrated into a four course design sequence where twocourses comprise the senior capstone experience and two courses teach supplementary material.The intent of the sequence is to provide experience with a variety of skills that are valuable forboth senior design projects and in BME careers after graduation. As designed, the Fabricationand Experimental Design course is not a full-credit course, meeting only two days a week forone-hour sessions, with several lab sessions
gasifiers. Three groups have created experiments to measure agricultureimprovements though soil amended with biochar. One very excited group, used biochar toamend the lightweight soil for green roof systems. The results were encouraging. Currentlystudents are also investigating biochar as a water filter media. The author and PI of the grants hasbeen able to take an advisory role and happily watch students lead the project. Work on theseprojects usually becomes the capstone educational experience for the participants. One of thePI’s jobs is to serve as a protective screen between the giant hair ball of the universitybureaucracy and the creative spirit of the untainted students. One result of this screening was theshredding of his university credit
Initiative (SEI) of the CIVIS project strives to contribute to thenew energy workforce development efforts at UPRM. The SEI started in 2008 to providestudents a sustainable learning context in which they could learn about sustainable energy, getmotivated with the work in the area and a obtain a global perspective of their education inengineering. Within this context students are also expected to deepen their general educationskills, since they need a holistic perspective to better grasp sustainable energy concepts. The SEIillustrates some of the educational opportunities not only in energy economics, but also in theintegration of social issues in the analysis of a sustainable future. The SEI initiative has threemain areas: 1. A module-based
one particular sustainability focusedproject to explore differences that students perceive for the effort required to complete a projectand the perceived educational outcomes for projects that deal with traditional civil andenvironmental senior capstone design projects relative to projects that are focused onsustainability.The sustainability focused project that the students completed is entered in the US EPA 9thAnnual P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing onPeople, Prosperity and the Planet. The project is sited in Kenya and integrates sustainabletechnology to improve sustainable development targeted towards women and children in thehome.The hypothesis submitted is that challenging sustainability
their knowledge and skills for the enhancement of human welfare, and motivatesthem to strive for increasing the competence and prestige of engineering profession.4.6 Demonstrate knowledge of contemporary issues Knowledge of contemporary issues such as economical, environmental, social, and ethicalfactors are crucial in the design process of any engineering system. Engineering students prior tograduation must be able to identify these factors and make appropriate judgments in any projectthey undertake. The TGR platform in capstone senior design is ideal to educate the students inthis process. For instance, consider a project designed to assist a blind person navigate inside abuilding. Two primary challenges faced by a blind person are
AC 2012-3117: A STUDY OF INDIVIDUAL LEARNING IN SOFTWAREENGINEERING TEAM PROJECTSDr. Colin J. Neill, Pennsylvania State University Colin J. Neill is Associate Professor of software and systems engineering at Penn State University’s School of Graduate Professional Studies, where he is the Director Engineering Programs. Neill has devel- oped and taught more than a dozen courses in support of the graduate programs in software engineering, systems engineering, engineering management, and information science in topics including software sys- tems design, system architecture, project management, and systems thinking. He has published more than 70 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings, including Systems
scheduling andproject control.Course layout and components can be established similarly to the one in the literature7, 8. BIMhas to be learned while students are learning typical construction knowledge with a concentrationon skills of project scheduling and project control along with other aspects such as field layoutand management. As discussed above several related courses in the existing curriculum of aconstruction engineering program are used. Courses selected based on the nature of courses areGraphic Communication (CAD), Construction Planning and Scheduling, Construction Contract,Field Management, and Construction Information Technologies and/or Senior Design(Capstone). The development of instructional materials is critical, and is different at
not make the connection properly so the two motors did not run in sync. Thisis a classical example that students learn from their mistakes. They won’t find anything wrong oftheir design until they saw the test results. Fig6.6 Top View of the Robot Prototype Designed by Team Two with 2 Motors to drive the Robot.7. Assessment and ConclusionsThe project was conducted in capstone courses of two associate degree programs. For moststudents, this is the first time they were exposed to this type of hands-on design project. Pre andpost surveys were conducted. Although most students said they learn a lot from this freshexperience, majority asked that this type of hands-on design project be given much early in theirfreshman years. Most students
team-based project. In particular, team-based designprojects (cornerstone, capstone, or discipline specific) are ideal candidates as they requireeffective teamwork to facilitate the development of an optimal design solution. The toolcomprises four areas where students can engage in learning from their team experience. Theseareas allow students to: • self-reflect and provide feedback on their teammates • review the feedback they have received • access tools and techniques to improve their understanding of team-effectiveness • engage in exercises to practice their team-effectiveness competenciesThis section outlines our proposed method of integrating this learning tool into a course and itsteam-based project. Figure 1 demonstrates
, recruitment, and retention in K-12 and undergraduate engineering.Prof. Derek T Reamon, University of Colorado, BoulderDr. Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt, Ph.D., P.E., is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder (CU) in the Department of Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering. She has been at CU since 1996. During that time, she has taught Introduction to Civil Engineering to first-year students numerous times. She also teaches the senior capstone design course for environmental engineering, and this course has included service-learning projects for local or international communities since 2000. Bielefeldt has been researching teaching innovations
in computer science education, (2011), pp. 268-272.24. Stroulia, E., Bauer, K., Craig, M., Reid, K., and Wilson, G., “Teaching distributed software engineering withUCOSP: the undergraduate capstone open-source project,” Proceedings of the 2011 Community Building Workshopon Collaborative Teaching of Globally Distributed Software Development, (2011), pp. 20-25.25. Ellis, H.J.C., Morelli, R.A., de Lanerolle, T.R., Damon, J., and Raye, J., “Can Humanitarian Open-SourceSoftware Development Draw New Students to CS?” SIGCSE 2007, Technical Symposium on Computer ScienceEducation, (March 2007), pp. 551-555.26. Ellis, H.J.C., Morelli, R.A., and de Lanerolle, T., “Holistic Software Engineering Education Based on an OpenSource Project,” 20th Annual
iterative loop of divergent-convergent thinking b. Maintain sight of the big picture by including systems thinking and systems design c. Handle uncertainty d. Make decisions e. Think as part of a team in a social process f. Think and communicate in several languages of design.Hence, in an effort to increase the effective teaching of systems engineering and designof complicated systems we sought to increase these efforts by developing a capstonecourse. The capstone course approach to design engineering education has evolved overthe years from “made up” projects devised by faculty to industry-sponsored projectswhere companies provide “real” problems, along with the expertise and financialsupport3. Following this proven and widely
EngineersWithout Borders and Engineering for Change (E4C), which they could use to give them someideas for potential technologies.Approximately 3 lecture periods were devoted to the concepts of appropriate technology. Theselectures focused on the nature of appropriate technology and its characteristics (per Table 1).Two alternative energy projects that were MSU Engineering Capstone Design Projects werepresented to the students and were critiqued in the terms of satisfying the appropriate technologychecklist. The two projects are described below. Following class discussion, the students cameto the conclusion that the Connect-On-Demand Satellite Link was not an appropriate technology,while the Vaccine Refrigerator did satisfy the criteria for an appropriate
schemes as advanced senior (capstone) design projects to be developed to monitor and control frequency and voltage of the AC grid.Table 1. Estimated energy output from a 10 kW Bergey Excel-S Wind Turbine at City: CedarFalls Turbine: Bergey Excel; 10 kW Loss Factor (%): 12 Tower Height: 100 feetThe objectives of a typical wind power education in a Baccalaureate degree program shouldinclude basic mathematics, physics, statistical analysis, computer programming, electricalcircuits, analog devices, digital electronics, conventional and renewable energy fundamentals,electrical machines, power electronics, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), electromechanics, measurement and protection fundamentals, power transmission lines, power
ismaterial neutral, the Small Scale Structures and Large Scale Structures courses are materialspecific. The Small Scale Structures course focuses on timber and single story steel framedbuildings. The Large Scale Structures course focuses on multi-story reinforced concrete andstructural steel framed buildings. Students learn the characteristics, advantages anddisadvantages of different structural systems, how to evaluate the different systems and how todevelop the preliminary structural designs of buildings. The courses also cover foundations,cladding and long span and high rise structures.The primary goal of this series is to give these students tools that will assist them in their careersas project leaders so they can better produce efficient
, which I termedskeptical reverence: a balance between seeing mathematics as an indispensible tool andunderstanding its limitations. I argued that this disposition was functional and necessary forengineers to carry out design and analysis effectively; the wrong level of reliance onmathematics—too much reverence or too much skepticism—would incur safety and economicrisks. Unanswered by this prior research was how these engineers developed their perspective onthe relationship between mathematics and engineering and this disposition of skepticalreverence. This question is taken up by the study reported here.This study was part of a larger project to investigate how engineers develop as problem solverswho apply mathematics effectively. I conjecture
knowledge about structures, anticipating and mitigatingrisks through concurrent testing and development activities, maximizing team performancethrough organization and delegation of tasks, trading off technical performance within a definedand fixed budget and drawing quality of construction and aesthetics into design decision.It occurred to the authors that this exercise might expose interesting differences and sensitivitiesfor an American participant group compared to a Russian group of participants. The Americangroup is a fifty three member senior capstone project class of traditional and non-traditionalmultidisciplinary students. The Russian group was composed of faculty and graduate studentsparticipating in a workshop held during a conference
and graduating, respectively, undergraduate engineering students thusact as bookend design experiences. The Cornerstone curricula serve multifaceted purposesincluding providing students with what is likely their first open-ended design and long-termproblem-solving challenge as well as transitioning incoming traditional engineering studentsfrom secondary college preparatory coursework to engineering coursework at the post-secondarylevel, not to mention satisfying various curriculum content-related and pedagogical objectives.The Capstone activities provide students with an opportunity to apply their coursework fromtheir program of study and experiences through their college careers in a final project often in thefield and involving industry
engineering practitioners.Curriculum for an engineering major consists of foundation courses in engineering, science andmath, mezzanine coursework consisting of a focus on technical engineering content knowledge,and capstone courses pulling this material together and often applied to example engineeringprojects. Course sequences chain together, building on the relevance and complexity of thesubject matter. While active-learning techniques can take shape in any classroom learningexperience, project-based learning pervade the capstone experience1. Project-based learning2focuses pedagogical efforts on open-ended, authentic problem solving. The basis of manycapstone engineering design courses are engineering challenges undertaken on behalf of a third
context of the senior capstone project7. • RP provided a way to conveniently produce one-off, technically complex artifacts required in many engineering courses15. • It allowed for a fast reiterative design approach and a short development time in student Page 25.1063.4 projects, leading to an increase in student’s understanding and confidence15,16. • RP facilitates active learning projects where students can apply computer aided design, engineering, and manufacturing technologies with hands-on experiences3.While benefits of using RP were extensively discussed in the literature, one of the main purposesof this paper is
AC 2012-3692: MEASURING UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT PERCEP-TIONS OF THE IMPACT OF PROJECT LEAD THE WAYMr. Noah Salzman, Purdue University Noah Salzman is a graduate student in engineering education and mechanical engineering at Purdue Uni- versity. He received his B.S. in engineering from Swarthmore College, and his M.Ed. in secondary science education from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has work experience as both an engineer and taught science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at the high school level. His research focuses on the intersection of pre-college and undergraduate engineering programs.Dr. Eric L. Mann, Purdue University, West Lafayette Eric L. Mann is an Assistant Professor of educational
Software, 42(8).Holland, J. H. (1975). Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems: An Introductory Analysis with Applications to Biology, Control, and Artificial Intelligence. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.Maguire, K. (2006). Statewide system to foster the intregration of academics into Career and Technical Education through Project Lead The Way (Ph.D. Capstone). Iowa State University, Ames, IA.Misko, T. (2011). The “E” in STEM: Clarifying What Engineering Education Means for K-12 + The Opportunity Equation. Retrieved September 26, 2011, from http://opportunityequation.org/school- and-system-design/e-stem-clarifying-what-engineering#thor-miskoNathan, Mitchell J., Tran, Natalie, Phelps, A., & Prevost, A. (2008). The
to be successful in STEM areas.24 TheInSPIRESS project at UAHuntsville in many ways emulates the cornerstone experience, but atthe high school level instead of the freshman year of college.The IPT project is the capstone senior design course for students in Mechanical and AerospaceEngineering and Industrial and Systems Engineering. Students in this course, working withstudents from two other universities, design a spacecraft to accomplish a planetary sciencemission. The (InSPIRESS) project is a new outreach program that is linked to the IPT project atUAHuntsville with a focus on high-school students. This outreach project introduces high schoolstudents to engineering design in order to help them understand what engineers “do”, motivatethem
AC 2012-4587: THE INTEGRATION OF BUILDING INFORMATION MOD-ELING AND INTEGRATED PROJECT DELIVERY INTO THE CONSTRUC-TION MANAGEMENT CURRICULUMDr. Joseph A. Wright, University of Wisconsin, Stout Joseph A. Wright has 18 years as a university lecturer/professor in construction management with an em- phasis on contract administration. He has 15 years experience in industry as a Project Engineer/Manager on oil and gas and infrastructure projects. Current research interests include pathways for integrated project delivery and the use of software to enhance communication through the project process. Page 25.1317.1
hardware in their hands to carry out the testing. Someamount of testing can be done virtually with a simulator or emulator, but full system verificationrequires access to the full system. Unless each student has their own development system, theyare limited on when and where they can work and this in turn limits the complexity of thedesigns that can be assigned.Soft: Configurable soft cores introduce an additional level of testing since the hardware that hasbeen implemented in the programmable device has to first be verified before softwaredevelopment can begin. In upper level embedded design courses student projects often includeboth hardware and software development. Each hardware component or IP created needs to befirst simulated and then
architectures; platforms that could beprogrammed very efficiently in assembly language and others using very high level languages;platforms that do not have any open source libraries to perform input/output interfaces and otherones that have a complete set of libraries, and platforms that hide all the microcontrollerarchitecture and just focus on applications.What is a platform that could offer good exposure to microcontroller architectures and stillsatisfy these criteria: ease to program in assembly language and high level languages; ease toperform graphical system programming and configuration; and the possibility for students toapply it in project based learning. In addition there are a couple of other very important factors toconsider. Is the
Page 25.11.2computer-assisted and web-based grading rubrics have led to the development of online tools forthe assessment of student design work like those offered by the IDEALs project13.However, these systems still do not fully address the problems of real and perceived teacher biasin grading14, grade inflation15, and professor pleasing. For example, 51% of respondents in a2004 faculty survey on capstone design courses rated their perception of grading fairness as only“(3) fair - I seldom hear complaints” and none rated their perception as a “(5) all bias anddistortion have been eliminated”16. These types of concerns have led many students to prefer thatdesign projects be evaluated by external jurors because they “want the jury process to be
member in 2011. She was awarded NAE’s 2008 Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education.Dr. Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has incorporated service-learning projects into the senior capstone design course for environmental engineering since 2001. Her engineering education research interests include sustainable engineering, ethics, and retention of female students.Dr. Daniel W. Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder Daniel W. Knight is the engineering Assessment Specialist at the Integrated Teaching and Learning Pro
the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory,’ Proceedings of 2011 ASEE Southeast Section Conference5. Jang, S., Markowitz, K., ‘Initiating the Undergraduate Research Study through NYC-LSAMP Summer Fellowship Program,’ Proceedings of 2010 ASEE Southeast Section Conference6. The Peach State Louis Stokes Alliance at Southern Polytechnic State University http://pslsamp.spsu.edu/index.html, last visited on Dec 7, 20117. Anderson, J., ‘Introduction to Flight,’ McGraw Hill Companies, 20011, ISBN: 00733802458. Butler, M. W., Terpenny, P. J., Goff, R. M., ‘An Experiment in Learner – Centered Instruction in Aerospace Engineering capstone design, 2010 ASEE Southeast Section Conference9. Sinha, A., ‘High Altitude Student Ballooning Project: An
pressures had the least effect on part warpage. Main Effects Plot for Warpage Data Means Alpha Back Pressure 0.012 0.011 0.010 0.009 Mean 0.008 0.007 0.006 0.005 Low High 75 150 Figure 5. The relative effects of PP thermal diffusivity and back pressure on part warpageAssessmentThis work started as a capstone project for a student and was continued as