laptops with more computing power and the smalllaptops that are portable and easy to carry. Due to the large amount of traveling that many collegestudents endure, many students find the less powerful, more portable option more inviting. Yet,what if they did not have to make the choice? Instead, the campus could host servers to allowstudent to lease computing power to create a more flexible computing environment while notmaking the students carry heavy computers around campus.This has been the primary motivation behind the adoption of this project by two senior students astheir senior capstone project. In this paper, we provide highlights of the challenges, successes andresults. The purpose of the project was to virtualize the Telecom, Networking
Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology.6. NTSB. (2013). Boeing 787 Battery Investigative Hearing. Washington DC. Retrieved from http://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/2013/B787_hearing/agenda.html7. Gertler, J. (2014). F-35 Joint Strike Fighter ( JSF ) Program (Tech. Rep.). Washington DC: RAND Project Air Force.8. ABET. (2013). 2014-2015 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs. Baltimore, MD. Retrieved from http://www.abet.org/9. Woods, D. R., Felder, R. M., Rugarcia, A., & Stice, J. E. (2000). The Future of Engineering Education III. Developing Critical Skills. Chem. Eng. Ed., 34(2), 108–117.10. Paretti, M. C. (2008). Teaching Communication in Capstone Design : The Role of the Instructor in Situated Learning. Journal
highly beneficial to thestudents, but it is also beneficial to the instructor and teaching assistants. The instructors need todo much less hands on work during the lab sessions, and can instead guide, suggest, and answerconceptual questions. Since it is virtually impossible to break the apparatus, short of dropping iton the floor, it is possible to let even large numbers of students touch and explore the equipment.An added unexpected benefit was the increase in the number of students who asked to borrowthe strain gauge indicator boxes for capstone design projects and student competition teams.Prior to the new experiment, very few capstone design students incorporated strain gauges intotheir design. Despite having taken the Measurements course
. Excel worksheet. The system is an electrically powered The electrically powered mode of transportation and is transportation system responds to a 35% controlled with a handheld remote handheld remote control. control. By the end of the project, a new system is expected to be fully functional and On project completion, the fully ready to operate. In the end, the functional new system gives people a 54% excellent design is meant to give people great new way to pursue happiness. a great new way to pursue
exciting project he could possibly imagine: the Space Shuttle. Over his career, David held successively influential management positions including Deputy Branch Chief of the Aerodynamics Branch in the Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Division, Chief of the GN&C Analysis and Design Branch, Deputy Chief of the Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Division, and for the final 10 years of his career, Chief of the Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Division in the Engineering Directorate at the Johnson Space Center. Dave retired from NASA at the end of 2010 after more than 38 years of service in the US Space Program. His career spanned numerous projects and programs, including both crewed and robotic spacecraft. After retiring
sensing and visual learning styles and hands-on experiments for students with ac-tive learning styles [23]. According to Moore, there is a direct correlation between in-class per-formance, laboratory attendance, and performance [24]. In capstone related project, activelearning can be achieved through a variety of activities that include lab and project experimentswith hands-on projects and hands-on laboratory experiments [25-28].ConclusionThe research was carried out to examine reliability of energy harvesting systems. Ambientenergy harvesting systems represent a fruitful area of research and possibilities for furtherresearch are created with the convergence of miniaturization of the components used, low-power
current practice the “IndustryFellows” model, developed and tested by faculty at the University of Washington, Tacoma [1].This model goes beyond the typical industry engagement pathways of industry advisory boards,guest speaker events, student internships, and capstone projects. Industry Fellows is a form ofindustry/academia collaboration providing direct engagement of an industry professional withinthe classroom throughout a semester. This direct engagement has the benefit of bringingacademic instruction and state-of-the-art industry practices into closer alignment [1].The goal of this paper is to extend the Industry Fellows model from application in face-to-facedelivery into online delivery for distance education. Both the original research and
Page 26.791.8 What we’re giving the students is a blank sheet of paper. They have to go out and find a problem, figure out a problem, and we’ll help them with that ideation process, but what ends up happening is that they—and I’ve heard this from students, who have done dual majors and done both the traditional Capstone Design Project and an engineering entrepreneurs program Capstone Design Project—they learn so much more and they’re so much more engaged in the project because they have personal interest and ownership of it, and that seems to make a real difference.The strategy of exposing students to compelling challenges and real-world problems isinextricably connected to experiential learning, as
project, severalstudents were very interested in the opportunity to be involved in a community outreachproject aimed towards researching and developing effective and appropriatedemonstrations of sound wave phenomena to 5th graders. The entire class was given oneresearch and writing assignment to search for helpful resources related to this Page 26.1713.6effort. When final projects were selected by the twelve enrolled in the course, two seniorfemale electrical engineering students chose to devote their entire capstone project ondeveloping outreach materials and demonstrations, and they became involved in ongoingmeetings held by the WAVES project
students with more design-decision making experience to enable them to be ready to engineer upon graduation. In thisresearch, third and fourth year undergraduate mechanical engineering students were guidedthrough the process of designing learning aid prototypes to be used in general engineeringeducation. Students were encouraged to use advanced technologies such as 3D printing and virtualsimulation to realize their concepts. This project assisted students in identifying their own andtypical misconceptions and devise tools which corrected those cognitive errors. A series of self-evaluation methods were used to identify the student’s perception of their decision-making skilllevels. Over the multiple categories of design decision-making skills
Paper ID #11341Development of Student Competencies Overtime in an Authentic ImmersiveDesign ExperienceProf. Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma Zahed Siddique is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering of University of Oklahoma. His research interest include product family design, advanced material and engineering education. He is interested in motivation of engineering students, peer-to-peer learning, flat learning environments, technology assisted engineering education and experiential learning. He is the coordinator of the industry sponsored capstone from at his
which the students meetsocially with others to talk through their experience. Finally, the chance to work withinternational students or to serve as an ambassador for education abroad provides a way forstudents to integrate their experience abroad into their life on campus.Third, the programs address different domains of the reentry experience. Psychologicalcounseling, which has not been discussed here, is something that many schools offer for studentsstruggling emotionally with their adjustment. La Brack’s course and my project synthesis courseallow students to talk through their behavioral missteps, as well as deal intensively with thecognitive aspect of returning. The capstone at Georgia Tech and the Purdue’s GlobalEngineering Reentry course
App, Website etc.Collaboration with the Computer Science DepartmentIt was important first to prototype HWM game using a website implementation. In collaborationwith the Computer Science department in our school, the next step taken was to prototype this incapstone project for an undergraduate class (final course and project before graduation). Thestudent team successfully prototyped the HWM and the approach through a website, and theyalso took some new and independent innovative approaches for strategies. The website and thegame was demonstrated to the class in their final capstone presentation. The game-boarddesigned for this capstone project is shown in Figure 6 below. The engine was running in thebackground and response was instantaneous
or other active experiences may increaseretention of material by up to 90% [25]. Richard Felder and Linda Silverman recommend severalteaching techniques to address all learning styles, one of which is to provide demonstrations forstudents with sensing and visual learning styles and hands-on experiments for students with ac-tive learning styles [26]. According to Moore, there is a direct correlation between in-class per-formance, laboratory attendance, and performance [27]. In capstone related project, active Page 26.972.11learning can be achieved through a variety of activities that include lab and project experimentswith hands-on projects
certificate programincludes the following seven new undergraduate courses13: 1. Introduction to Nanoscience 2. Engineering of Nanomaterials 3. Nanofabrication and Nanoelectronics 4. Introduction to Bio-Nanotechnology 5. Environmental Nanotechnology 6. NanoOptics 7. Capstone DesignTo complete the NCP and receive a Certificate in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, studentsmust complete 12 credit-hours of advance junior and senior level course13.Nanotechnology at Texas State University-San Marcos (Texas State) & University of Texas(UT) at TylerIn a collaborative project between Texas State and University of Texas at Tyler, an introductoryand advanced curricula was developed that addresses the “nanotechnology safety
the final year of engineering education, as part of the capstone design experience. Studentsfirst begin to develop design skills while they are also integrating their engineering contentknowledge and learning to apply it in authentic (or pseudo-authentic) contexts. In some cases,design is also introduced as part of a “cornerstone” experience in the first year of an engineeringprogram. Generally, however, the bulk of the engineering curriculum consists of engineeringscience courses that rely heavily on theoretical mathematics and closed-ended problem solving.Many design studies have investigated the difference between novices and experts in practicingdesign. Novice designers perceive the design task as a well-structured problem5 and
, students pitch proposalsfor a capstone lab project, projects are selected and then a list of them is presented to thefreshmen. Freshmen then rework their resume to apply to be part of the senior project they mostdesire. Senior teams then receive the resumes and choose four to eight freshmen they wish to“hire”. In weeks 10 through 12, freshmen arrange times to join senior teams to aid in thelaboratory tasks needed to complete the senior team’s final project.Homework: Individual students are required to turn in an initial resume, and a resumeincorporating the professor’s changes and tailored to the job they want. At the end of thecollaboration, freshmen teams compose a memo detailing their work with the seniors.Final Project (Weeks 12 - 14):Purpose
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provides a strong educational experience via theorycombined with practice in a class/lab atmosphere. Dedicated faculty and staff are directlyinvolved in classes and labs, and each degree program culminates with a senior design or"Capstone" project, which is required for graduation. Capstone projects emphasize projectmanagement, technical deliverables, and multidisciplinary effort in team-oriented, long-termprojects. As a result of the heavy emphasis on practical, applied, and experiential learning,students who graduate from ISOE are well prepared for careers in all aspects of engineering. Theschool has more than 800 engineering students. In addition to modern classrooms and computerlabs, ISOE has fully equipped labs including a class 1000
. These are advanced courses where knowledge of basic undergraduatematerial is required as a prerequisite. The capstone course for the program is a one year designstudio where students working in small teams to design a ship. The yearlong design includes acomprehensive structural design and analysis of the project ship.In the structural course sequence, students take general and advanced structural analysis (i.e.,structural mechanics, plates and shells) before taking the Ship Structural Analysis and Design(SSSAD) course. The SSAD course covers the complexity of ship structures: longitudinalstrength and hull primary stresses, design limit states including plate bending, column and panelbuckling, panel ultimate strength and plastic analysis. Matrix
% 55% 23% 21%Tutoring elementary or secondary 46% 16% 13% 46% 17%children GTutoring college students (unpaid) GR 47% 11% 12% 49% 14% 15%Donated Blood GR 40% 26% 20% 43%In Class Service Learning Project(i.e. service oriented capstone 35% 47% 16% 23%project) GREngineers without Borders (EWB),Engineers for a Sustainable World(ESW), Bridges 2 Prosperity Project, 19% 30% 12% 21% 11% 27%or a similar extracurricularengineering service program GFood Bank Volunteer
provide a supervisor with an employee’s location by means of an LCD display and an LED signal.As a result, 100% percent of students completed the project in embedded C program. In the finalexam, more conceptual problems in both assembly language and embedded C language were given.100% students successfully passed the course examination. 87.5% of the students got very goodgrades in solving the problems with the assembly language.Mechatronic Engineering is a new program at Vaughn college, it received ABET accreditation inFall 2014. From 2012 to 2014, four groups of Mechatronics Engineering students have complet-ed their capstone degree projects. All four groups of students have used one or two microcon-troller in their projects, ranging from
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courses in both quality control and quality assurance areas as well as in thermal-fluid, energy conversion and mechanical areas from various levels of instruction and addressed to a broad spectrum of students, from freshmen to seniors, from high school graduates to adult learners. She also has extended experience in curriculum development. Dr Husanu developed laboratory activities for Measurement and Instrumentation course as well as for quality control undergraduate and graduate courses in ET Masters program. Also, she introduced the first experiential activity for Applied Mechanics courses. She is coordinator and advisor for capstone projects for Engineering Technology.Mr. M. Eric Carr, Drexel University Mr. Eric
work explores engineering ethics empirically in a “developing world” context through aframework of care ethics. Care ethics, a.k.a., the ethic(s) of care, is particularly suitable for the“developing world” context because it helps draw attention to imbalances of power (e.g.,inequality, differential opportunity, and limitations on autonomy) that are often neglected byother ethical frameworks. In this work, we selected one element of care ethics (responsibility)and operationalized it in several ways: the language of responsibility; notions of paternalism; andawareness of key, influencing stakeholders. These lenses were developed and refined iterativelyby employing them in case study analyses of two design project reports written by teams
a key source of successfulinnovations; thus, techniques to support creative conceptual design are imperative in engineeringeducation. However, teaching students to “think innovatively” has been difficult becauseeducators lack effective instructional methods. While there are a variety of proposed methods foridea generation, only one has been empirically validated in multiple scientific studies: DesignHeuristics. Design Heuristics are prompts that guide designers in exploring the design spaceduring concept generation. In empirical studies in engineering and design classrooms, DesignHeuristics have been shown to be readily adopted by students, and to result in more creative, andmore diverse, concepts.The focus of this project is to create a
courseof study) (at least 8 units at the 300- or 400-level); 24 units of additional coursework in a liberalarts specialization; and at least 4 upper-level LSE courses: two on project-based learning, asenior project course, and a capstone. Students must also either study or intern abroad, orcomplete 2 additional upper-level courses in global studies.As of Fall 2014, 55 students have graduated with a B.A. in LSE at CPSU, and 55 additionalstudents are currently active in the program (48 as LAES majors and 7 currently on a one- ortwo-quarter individualized change of major agreement). (Two other students were denied theirdegree in Spring 2012, 3 students discontinued the program, and 1 student has completed all of
authentic learning projects. Learning labs are designed to be used in a face toface classroom experience and is suitable for introductory courses in graduate engineeringcurriculums in industrial, environmental and civil engineering.How do Learning Labs enrich the online learning experience? Learning labs promote a richer and engaging student centered learning experience with collaborative activities. Students develop learning artifacts which will be housed in their e-portfolio. Students create tangible and authentic components for the student’s capstone project. Students bring in prior knowledge (from other courses) and apply to the current course and promote weaving of learning within inter-disciplinary courses
beyond the scope of the typical graduate student training.Consider these excerpts from job postings in the Chronicle of Higher Education (all listed underengineering, January 2015): “The responsibilities of the [Engineering Capstone Design] Facilitator include: identifying and recruiting appropriate design projects (summer support available), supporting the project sponsors and technical mentors, monitoring student group budget management, coordinating engineering design course content, and identi- fying and facilitating opportunities and forums for publication/presentation of stu- dent project success.” The candidate must have the “ability to coordinate the engineering operations management
Paper ID #12282An Examination of ME449 Redesign and Prototype Fabrication: A New Se-nior/Grad Design and Fabrication Course at the University of Wisconsin –Madi-sonMr. Kim J Manner, University of Wisconsin, Madison Kim Manner is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He has been an instructor in the UW- Madison College of Engineering since 1988. He holds both BS and MS degrees from the UW- Madison in Engineering Mechanics. He has taught undergraduate classes in Capstone Design, Geometric Modeling, Computer-Aided Design, Product Dissection, Product Redesign and