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Capstone Design

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Trevelyan, University of Western Australia

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #13710Incremental Self-Assessment Rubrics for Capstone Design CoursesProf. James Trevelyan, University of Western Australia Professor James Trevelyan works part-time as a Winthrop Professor in the Mechanical and Chemical En- gineering School at The University of Western Australia, Fellow of Engineers Australia, and also practices as a mechanical and mechatronics engineer developing new air conditioning technology. His main area of research is on engineering practice, and he teaches design, sustainability, engineering practice and project management. He is well known internationally for pioneering research that

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Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Delorme, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES)

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Design in Engineering Education

of complex, multi-disciplinary, systems engineering focused student de- sign and development projects. Page 26.1509.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 “Work-in-Progress:” The Capstone Marketplace: An Online Tool for Matching Capstone Design Students to Sponsors with Challenging ProblemsThe Capstone Marketplace is an online tool developed and maintained to match multi-disciplinary student teams with challenging engineering projects. While web based tools exist formatching students to projects at individual institutions, the Capstone

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INDUSTRY DAY SESSION: CMC PANEL SESSION ONE

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert B. Rhoads, Ohio State University; Jacob T Allenstein, Ohio State University; Krista M. Kecskemety, Ohio State University; Clifford A Whitfield, Ohio State University

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Corporate Member Council

were to identify characteristics that were important to early-careerengineering professionals and to identify the most important learning outcomes to the capstoneexperience from an industry-sponsor perspective.Multidisciplinary Capstone Program StructureThe multidisciplinary capstone experience is a two-semester course sequence with industryrelated projects defined by sponsor companies who support the projects financially and withcompany engineers working directly with the project. Projects include process and equipmentdesign, energy and environmental improvements, and new product development. Students fromall 14 undergraduate engineering programs have participated in the program. Programs include:aeronautical and astronautical, aviation

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Problem- Project- and Case-based Learning in Environmental Engineering

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paula Ann Monaco, Texas Tech University; Maeghan Marie Brundrett, Texas Tech University; Dylan Christenson, Texas Tech University; Kevin A. Nguyen, Texas Tech University; Audra N. Morse, Texas Tech University

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Diversity

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Environmental Engineering

performing well following theimplementation of the WEAT design prompt.IntroductionCapstone design courses vary between engineering programs and can be structured to includeindustry partners, service-learning projects for communities or competition design projects1.Utilization of a competition prompt as the capstone design project provides many benefits forstudent education2. For instance, students may receive a real-world problem submitted by aregional municipal utility tasking them with the job of treatment upgrades to improve plantperformance. Unlike the use of hypothetical academic prompts, additional opportunities aregiven to the students when they engage with a competition prompt, such as the ability to tour theproject facility, receive

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Best Practices and Lessons Learned in Capstone Design Projects

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zhenhua Wu, Virginia State University; Nasser Ghariban, Virginia State University

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Manufacturing

Paper ID #12426PLM Based Digital Design Manufacturing and Process Monitoring of an Im-peller Manufacturing- a Senior Project at Virginia State UniversityDr. Zhenhua Wu, Virginia State University Dr. Zhenhua Wu, is currently an Assistant Professor at Virginia State University. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University. His current research interests focus on control and diagnose complex systems, sustainable manufacturing, adaptive machining, and nano manufacturing.Dr. Nasser Ghariban, Virginia State University

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Topics in Computing and Information Technologies I

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Benin, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Scott Thomas Howie, United States Coast Guard Academy; Benjamin B Hannon, USCGA; Nicholas Williamson, United States Coast Guard Academy

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Computing & Information Technology

capstone design project is embraced by schools from Orono, Maine to San Diego,CA and many, many in between [5, 6]. The opportunity to practice project managementprinciples, put theory into practice, and accomplish something of significance serves to enrichand motivate. Naturally this is no less true in the area of Electrical, Computer, Communications,and Telecommunications Engineering education.This paper describes such a capstone project as conducted at the United States Coast GuardAcademy (CGA) on Secure IPv6 Design. At this time education in networking at the CGA isfocused almost entirely Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) at the Internet layer. Through thisyear-long project, two senior students (known as cadets at CGA) successfully extended

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Software Applications in ET Programs

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen A. Strom, Pennsylvania State University, Erie

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Innovative Embedded Systems ProjectAbstractThe goal of an Embedded Design course is to teach programming, embedded circuits and softwarealgorithms. There are also related goals, such as learning to use development tools, lab equipmentand proper debugging techniques. There are tangential goals such as working in teams andpreparation for senior/capstone projects. And while there are a variety of approaches to teaching,the common theme is that you want the students to be successful and understand the material asthoroughly as possible.Each year, there are new peripherals, new processors and most engineering departments do not takea static approach to education and try to include more

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Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 8

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John V. Tocco J.D., Lawrence Technological University

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

experience in their senior year, formed the first all-female capstone team. The project the team selected was the conceptual design of a performance and visual art center for an existing nonprofit “village” that houses physically and emotionally abused girls. Each team member was responsible for the design of a component of the project based on her civil engineering subdiscipline. An all-female group of industry practitioners agreed to serve as mentors to the capstone team throughout the project cycle. With significant input from the practitioner-mentors, the students designed the project and not only presented to faculty and advisory board members, they also presented to the local chapter of a female-based construction industry

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Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Denny Davis, Ohio State University; Peter Rogers, The Ohio State University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

design reviews prepares students for professional practice, enhances achievement ofboth professional development and solution development, and provides valuable exhibits for students’professional portfolios. The authors of this work-in-progress paper seek collaborators for implementingand testing the proposed assessment structure in capstone design courses.IntroductionConsider this scenario: An engineering graduate walks into a job interview and hands the interviewerachievement scores for his or her teamwork, communication, problem solving, project management,ethics and professional responsibility, willingness to take risks, motivation to continue learning, and otherknowledge, skills and abilities important to the employer. The interviewer

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Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacqueline Ann Stagner P.Eng., University of Windsor; Jennifer L Johrendt, University of Windsor

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Design in Engineering Education

two-semester Capstone Design course for students in their senior year of anundergraduate engineering degree program affords the opportunity to assess many attributes asstudents ready themselves for graduation because of the comprehensive nature of the project-based course. This paper explores how graduate attributes (GrAtts), as defined by the CanadianEngineering Accreditation Board (CEAB), are assessed within a Mechanical EngineeringCapstone Design course. Assessment of GrAtts is necessary for CEAB accreditation, not onlyfor demonstrating that students have been exposed to and assessed on these attributes, but it alsoprovides valuable information necessary for continuous improvement activities within programs.The Mechanical Engineering

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Cooperative & Experiential Education Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher P. Pung, Grand Valley State University; Paul D. Plotkowski, Grand Valley State University; Chris Plouff, Grand Valley State University

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Diversity

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

applied and leveraged to enhance the capstone experience thatentails industry sponsored design and build style projects. The ability to comfortably interactwith professionals in an industrial environment, manage projects entailing interactions withother portions of the business outside of engineering such as purchasing, skilled trades,marketing, sales and others allows a wide variety of challenging projects to be considered for thecapstone design course. Frequently capstone projects are proposed by companies that currentlyhave one or more co-op students. If appropriate, the co-op student acts as the point of contactbetween the student team and the industry sponsor. This minimizes the amount ofmiscommunication and also allows faster turn-around

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Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Keith G. Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Christos Christodoulatos, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Kate D. Abel, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Leslie R Brunell, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Sandra V. Furnbach P.E., Stevens Institute of Technology; Vikki Hazelwood, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Kishore Pochiraju, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Eirik Hole, Stevens Institute of Technology (SSE); Bruce McNair, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Thomas G. Lechler, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

published in the leading technology manage- ment journals and he has published four books. His research has received several awards. In 1999 at the Rent 13 Conference in London he received the best Paper Award. In 2010 he received the PMI Project Management Journal Paper of the Year Award. He has received several research grants from NSF and from other funding organizations. From 2003-2005 he was appointed NASA research fellow in project management. Page 26.81.3 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015  A Pilot for Integrating Capstone Design with a Two-Semester

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Epicenter Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Victoria Matthew, VentureWell; Thema Monroe-White, SageFox Consulting Group; Ari Turrentine, VentureWell; Angela Shartrand, VentureWell; Amit Shashikant Jariwala, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

lecturer, butrather serve as a coach or a guide that assists students in completing a longer-term project” (p. 1).17 Page 26.990.5Many of the similarities between entrepreneurship education and Capstone design emerge fromthe fact that historically, Capstone design courses have been modeled around the needs ofIndustry and the desire to provide real-world experience for students, to better prepare them toenter the workforce.18 Faculty teaching Capstone design view the course as a means for studentsto apply what they have learned throughout their undergraduate career through an open-endeddesign project in an environment that simulates the real world

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Best of DEED

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ibrahim Mohedas, University of Michigan; Grace Louise Cravens, Sienko Research Group; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Kathleen H. Sienko, University of Michigan

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

to address this gap in the literature by determining what students perceive therole of stakeholders should be during the design process and identifying the design project traitsthat facilitate learning the value of human-centered design processes.Research DesignStudy PurposeThe goal of this study was to determine how student perceptions of stakeholders differed beforeand after their capstone design experience, and to determine if and how the students’ interactionswith stakeholders during the semester changed their perceptions. We also explored how different Page 26.1695.2design project traits may have affected the level of stakeholder

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Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Valasek, Texas A&M University; Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University

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Systems Engineering

incorporating SEcontent in the traditional framework of engineering curricula and the lack of experience with SEby academic practitioners. This paper presents the results of a 17 month project between twolarge public institutions to investigate and incorporate educational tools and practical experiencesin the teaching of SE in existing design courses, to be later transitioned into a broad range ofcourses within the curricula. The main objective of the project introduced students to thepractical applications of the fundamentals of SE without displacing other course content. Thetarget courses at Texas A&M University included three senior-level courses, of which two wererequired capstone design courses and one an optional technical design elective

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Idea Generation and Creativity in Design

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shraddha Sangelkar, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; Charlotte De Vries, Penn State Erie, the Behrend College; Omar Ashour, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; William C. Lasher, Pennsylvania State University, Erie

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

Erie we are limited to three 50-minute class periods to teach concept generation.Given this limitation, a balance must be chosen between quantity of the methods taught, and thedetail in which students learn them.In spite of the wide array of ideation methods, undergraduate students often end upimplementing only the basic brainstorming method for their capstone projects. The senior designprojects in the Mechanical Engineering (ME) capstone program at Penn State Erie, the BehrendCollege vary widely from traditional mechanism design and construction projects where standardconcept generation techniques are appropriate, to design optimization problems with a strongfocus on mathematical modeling where concept generation relies heavily on the results

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Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susannah Howe, Smith College; Sophia L Poulos, Smith College; R. Keith Stanfill, University of Florida

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Design in Engineering Education

. Simultaneously, the team surveyed the capstone community regardingwhat aspects of a hub would be important to them and how they could envision using the hub.1Based on this input, the development team built the CDHub 1.0 pilot on a WordPress2 platformand populated it with sample resources. This pilot hub focused on communication (per therequirements of the funding agency) and included multiple files and strategies related to capstonedesign communication such as project definition, project management, and intellectual property.The hub developers held a workshop at the 2012 Capstone Design Conference to demonstrate thehub functionality and solicit user feedback. The 60 attendees were overwhelmingly supportive ofthe hub concept and offered numerous

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Curriculum Design and Evaluation

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeremy N. Thomas, DigiPen Institute of Technology; Christopher Theriault, DigiPen Institute of Technology; Charles Duba, DigiPen Institute of Technology; Lukas P van Ginneken, Digipen Institute of Technology; Nicholas James Rivera; Brian Michael Tugade, DigiPen Institute of Technology

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Electrical and Computer

industry.Most undergraduate computer engineering programs require a 1-year senior capstone designcourse. In this Program, team projects start in the first semester and are required in each of thefollowing semesters. As they develop through the Program, students have increasingly morecreative control over their projects and are responsible for component selection, design, testing,and implementation of their own hardware and/or software systems. Design constraints that areencountered in industry are followed, such as developing use models, cost, power, andportability. Examples include robotic toys, human interface devices, hand-held gaming consoles,and a stratospheric balloon data acquisition / telemetry system. These projects complementrigorous

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Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Moses Sylvester Jaia Jr.; Payam Matin, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

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Mechanical Engineering

, FEMsimulations, solid modeling, and design.References1. Hibbeler, R. C, Mechanics of Materials, Pearson Prentice Hall, 7th edition, 2008.2. Hosford, W. F., Caddell, R. M., Metal Forming Mechanics and Metallurgy, PTR Prentice Hall, 2nd edition, 1993.3. Nasser, A., Yadav, A., Pathak, P., and Altan, T., Determination of the flow stress of five AHSS sheet materials (DP 600, DP 780, DP 780-CR, DP 780-HY and TRIP 780) using the uniaxial tensile and the biaxial Viscous Pressure Bulge (VPB) tests, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, Vol. 210, No. 3, pp 429-436, 2010.4. Alan, D. J., Magleby, S. P., Sorensen, C. D., and Todd, R. H., A Review of Literature on Teaching Engineering Design Through Project-Oriented Capstone Courses, Journal of

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Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jared David Berezin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Jane Kokernak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering

productpresentations and discussions, participation, question asking, and question answering.A. Course ContextIn the MIT mechanical engineering capstone course, students work in product design teams topropose ideas for new products, select a few for development and testing, and ultimately chooseone, as a team, to build and test as an alpha prototype. At the end of the semester each teampresents their prototype at a large event, akin to a product launch. While the team project existsin many engineering capstone courses, one way that MIT’s course is unique is that individualstudent teams are atypically large, comprising 18-25 students. Enrollment in the course is 160-190 students every fall semester.The student teams are near autonomous and self directed

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Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan E. Walden, University of Oklahoma; Cindy E. Foor, University of Oklahoma; Rui Pan, University of Oklahoma; Randa L. Shehab, University of Oklahoma; Deborah A. Trytten, University of Oklahoma

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

juniors), team activities typicallyinvolve only the six or seven students enrolled in the capstone project. All the HPVC studentsexpressed frustration that they were “not allowed to do anything” until they were in charge. Thenon-capstone students, and especially new members, have no input on the design or building oftheir vehicle. Often the capstone students do not even include these other team members incommunications to arrange meetings or work times. Thus, students have very little opportunityto learn anything about the vehicle design, component manufacturing, or administrative tasksbefore they are responsible for the entire project. Because of the tight affiliation with thecapstone graduation requirement, this team maintains formidable

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Design and Entrepreneurship

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nabila A. Bousaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; James M. Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

wereencouraged to continue to work together in the College of Engineering Senior Design I andSenior Design II courses with the intent of them being able to commercialize the design.Part of the faculty effort was to build and promote a culture of innovation among engineeringstudents; therefore as a follow up from the course offering in the spring 2013 the facultysupported two projects during their capstone senior design courses for the fall 2013-spring 2014semesters with a strong plan for commercialization of the product. These students weremotivated, self-driven and excited about their projects and the possibility of launching a businesssuccessfully by using our program, and taking advantage of the resources available to them fromour University’s Office

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Engineering Management Division Technical Session 5

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Samuel A. Malachowsky, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Engineering Management

-credit course the core class in the processtrack (one of two major tracks) taken by all students in the major. This class is a prerequisite forother classes, such as Software Process & Product Quality and Trends in Software DevelopmentProcess. Methodologies and processes taught in this class are also a required implementation inthe Senior Project capstone which immediately precedes graduation. The department understandsthat a strong foundation in this area is a vital part of students’ future success and the reputation ofthe college.Software Engineering majors typically take this course in their third year, and it often directlyproceeds or follows students’ required one-year cooperative internship (co-op). For manystudents, this time period

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Enviromental Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Veera Gnaneswar Gude P.E., Mississippi State University; Dennis D. Truax PE, BCEE, F.ASCE, Mississippi State University

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Diversity

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Environmental Engineering

impact.Constructivist theories of learning also recognize that learning is a social activity6. This meansthat the laboratory instruction and project-based design courses can be identified as opportunitiesto improve students’ ability to work in teams, as well as their communication skills. As a result,many civil engineering programs now incorporate many of these dimensions in their designclasses, ranging from cornerstone to capstone design courses7.IllustrationsThe civil and environmental engineering department has implemented project (cooperativelearning) based exercises in the CE 3801 Environmental Engineering Laboratory course (juniorlevel civil engineering course). In this course, student groups (three to four) were formed tofacilitate team-based

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Design as a Social Process: Teams and Organizations

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University; Kris Jaeger-Helton, Northeastern University

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Design in Engineering Education

Faculty Advisor for Senior Capstone Design and graduate-level Challenge Projects in Northeastern’s Gordon Engineering Leadership Program. Dr. Jaeger has been the recipient of numerous awards in engineering education for both teaching and men- toring and has been involved in several engineering educational research initiatives through ASEE and beyond. Page 26.852.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 How Did We End up Together? Evaluating Capstone Project Success as a Function of Team and Project Formation Methods and

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Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kate D. Abel, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES)

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Engineering Management

, communication and project managementskills that many say are missing from the traditional engineering education (Felder, Vest,etc). Authors like Sheppard, et. al. advocate for modifying the engineering classroom toallow ways these skills can be taught.Success in business is determined by the technical skills within the organization.However, success of a business is also based on those employees having anunderstanding of what the business really needs. Technical professionals need to be betterattuned to customer needs and stakeholders’ perspectives, in order to align technicalprogress with business strategy. Such real world understanding is missing fromtraditional engineering education. Many say that the Capstone Design experience issupposed to be where

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Nuclear and Radiological Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bryndol A. Sones, United States Military Academy

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Nuclear and Radiological

that makes easy the assessment of the some of the trickier ABET Student Outcomes to measureIntroduction This paper describes a one-year nuclear engineering capstone designcourse that is rich in assessment data to evaluate student achievement in severalABET (previously known as the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology) Student Outcomes (SOs). Efforts in the course begin about sixmonths prior to its start by engaging students with a course overview, generalguidance about design project options, and a requirement for students to provideprofessors with their topical interest areas. Over the summer, professors work toalign student interests with faculty capabilities and with possible external projectclients. Students are

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Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Pulford, Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching (CELT); Alyssa Catherine Taylor, University of Washington

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Biomedical

students’ development of effectivecommunication skills along with technical skill development. The senior capstone report oftenplays an instrumental role in this development, since it comprises both the final assessment ofstudent communication performance and also students’ most significant opportunity for activelearning of in-discipline communication skills. Peer review has been proposed as an ideal meansto provide students with much-needed feedback toward this communication learning. Peerreview also has the potential to increase students’ interpersonal communication skills andmetacognition, provided that the review activity is structured to encourage constructivecontributions and reflection[1]. The goal of this work-in-progress project is to

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Biological & Agricultural Division Technical Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jorge Rodriguez P.E., Western Michigan University; Alamgir A. Choudhury, Western Michigan University

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Biological & Agricultural

Engineer in the State of Ohio and affiliated with ASME, ASEE, SME and TAP. Page 26.710.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Expanding Applicability of Senior Projects: Portable EGCC (Environmental Growth and Cloning Chamber) for GreenhousesNowadays it has become a common practice to do senior design projects or capstone projectsunder the sponsorship of an industrial entity, or a technical business/agency, where students willbe performing technical activities closely related to their specific engineering field. A wonderfulopportunity for the students to realize the reach

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Making in Design

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wendy S. Reffeor PhD, Grand Valley State University; John Paul Farris, Grand Valley State University

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Design in Engineering Education

provide students with multiple opportunitiesto experience a realistic design challenges before their Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET) mandated capstone design-build project.1,2 The literature shows the Page 26.202.2importance, effectiveness and student enthusiasm for real-world design projects performed aspart of capstone design experiences.3-5 However, creating exciting, customer driven andrelevant design experiences for classes other than the capstone design classes has provenchallenging.In the past the authors have struggled to integrate customer driven design and build projects intoexisting courses. When a working