optimal design parameters of thesystem. The study of the process parameters also leads a designer towards specific andinnovative solutions of the design problem.The design process presented in this paper is practiced in a conventional capstone design project,where a group of students are assigned a two semester design project. In the past, student groupswere asked to design a human powered hydraulic system to transport a single person. Withoutusing any direct drive mechanism, the system would transfer the rider’s power to the drivingwheel through the use of a fluid power system. The goal of the design was its functionality,safety, reliability, manufacturability and cost effectiveness. It was implemented as a routine stepby step process of the
Paper ID #14584A Building-Block Approach to Industrial Controls Laboratories Using Pro-grammable Logic ControllersProf. Robert J. Durkin, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis Mr. Durkin teaches courses in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Technology; including the capstone design and independent study projects. He serves as a Faculty Senator and earned the 2013 Outstanding Teacher Award. He has over 25 years of engineering and manufacturing experience including; design, project management, and various engineering, research and manufacturing leadership roles. He has been awarded two US patents. He is an
. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow Dr. Beyerlein has taught at the University of Idaho for the last 28 years. He is coordinator of the college of engineering inter-disciplinary capstone design course and currently serves as the Department Chair for Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Beyerlein has been active in research projects involving engine test- ing, engine heat release modeling, design of curricula for active , design pedagogy, and assessment of professional skills. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Using Solid Modeling to Enhance Learning in Mechanics of Materials and Machine Component DesignAbstractThis article reports on a classroom research study
used tocollect data for three experiences: undergraduate research (N=250), capstone design (N=120),and industry internships (N=60), and comparative analysis revealed that statistically significantdifferences in many of the outcomes existed when comparing the three experiences as well asgender differences [40, 41]. A comparison of undergraduate research and industry experiencesfound that most students participated in these learning experiences as rising juniors and seniorsbut the majority of the participants (about 70%) only participated in either industry internships orundergraduate research. Once students selected to participate in undergraduate research orindustry internships, most of them also continued participating in the same type of
Science and Engineer- ing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He obtained his Diploma and Ph.D. at Friedrich- Schiller-University in Jena, Germany for his theoretical work on transparent conducting oxides. Before he started at UIUC he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on a project that aimed at a description of non-adiabatic electron ion dynamics. His research revolves around excited electronic states and their dynamics in various materials using accurate computational methods and making use of modern super computers in order to understand, for instance, how light is absorbed in photo-voltaic materials. c American Society for
more and use “flowery” language when they areuncertain about what they are discussing. In addition, after the unit, students were more familiarwith more specific language regarding CSR, and thus were able to express their thoughts moreconcisely.Overall, this exercise was valuable for the students. The professor of the course observed thatthis group of students appears to understand that CSR is a part of their job, and that engineeringprojects involve many more stakeholders beyond the company and the client. One fourth of thestudents enrolled in the course for this study are now enrolled in a capstone project course withthe same professor. After a visit from the community relations engineer from the clientcompany, many students expressed
Engineering Design CurriculumAbstractFunctional modeling is often covered as a critical element of the engineering design process inengineering design texts, but little empirical data clearly demonstrates that functional modelingimproves engineering designs or that teaching functional modeling makes students betterdesigners. The overall objective of this project is to determine the impact of teaching function onengineering students’ design synthesis abilities. Two studies are being performed as a part ofthis project: (1) a longitudinal study following students through their sophomore, junior, andsenior year following some being taught functional modeling, while others not, and (2) a yearlystudy looking at capstone project quality of students from
ability to balance the social, economic andenvironmental impacts of the project. It is believed that problem-based learning, as exemplifiedby a capstone senior design project such as this one, provides students with important knowledgeabout green design. In addition, such projects provide students with the essential projectmanagement and engineering skills required to bring complex projects from idea to completion.The prototype was successfully able to navigate autonomously to a programmed destination andcharge its battery using solar energy. Its performance was dependent mainly on the accuracy ofthe GPS module. The prototype demonstrated how a manually controlled vehicle, such as aremote control toy car, could be converted into a very basic
Humanities and Sciencesand Adjunct Professor of Engineering Management, Information, and Systems in the Lyle School of En-gineering. Currall previously worked at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), where he servedas Senior Advisor to the Chancellor for Strategic Projects and Initiatives and as Professor of Management.As Chancellor’s Senior Advisor, Currall co-chaired campus- wide strategic visioning exercises to positionUC Davis as the ”University of the 21st Century.” He also led planning for an additional campus in theSacramento region, which included the academic strategy, financial plan, fundraising plan, analysis ofphysical facilities, organization of advisory groups, and liaison to the Academic Senate. He has servedas the Vice
impose any special hardware requirement on the external system. This setting can be used in experiments and projects in hardware related courses, such asdigital systems, embedded systems, microcontroller, capstone design, etc. It complements thenormal I/O devices and introduces the concept of IoT (internet of things).7. Acknowledgments This material is based upon work partially supported by the Cleveland State UniversityUndergraduate Summer Research Award Program.Bibliography[1] CNET website. http://www.cnet.com/news/android-shipments-exceed-1-billion-for-first-time-in-2014.[2] H. Abelson and M. Friedman, “App Inventor – A view into learning about computers through building mobile applications,” Proceedings of the 2010 SIGCSE
machine Engineering Students (ME) To correct a wobbling issues with a mechanical arm ME470 – Mechanical To generate bold new solutions for Capstone Design Engineering the students’ final projects (6 Sections) SeniorsResults of IdeaKeg Survey:To assess the impact and perception of the IdeaKeg tool at RHIT, a survey was distributed toboth problem owners and participants. Of the 459 participants, 120 (117
. in civil engineering from VT. His research interests are in the areas of computer-supported research and learning systems, hydrol- ogy, engineering education, and international collaboration. He has led several interdisciplinary research and curriculum reform projects, funded by the National Science Foundation, and has participated in re- search and curriculum development projects with $4.5 million funding from external sources. He has been directing/co-directing an NSF/Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site on interdisciplinary water sciences and engineering at VT since 2007. This site has 66 alumni to date. Dr. Lohani collab- orated with his colleagues to implement a study abroad project (2007-12
support the development ofinterdisciplinary curricula at the undergraduate level and encourage faculty and studentengagement in interdisciplinary projects that could be later presented at the university, regional,national and international levels. SEMS-ROC demonstrates diversity in research backgroundsof the faculty and includes interdisciplinary interests of all three departments in the school.Research activities tend to cluster around several broad topic areas involving faculty from acrossSEMS disciplines as well as in some cases, from other Schools at the institution along with otherinstitutions around the country.One of the initiatives undertaken at SEMS-ROC to break down the departmental-level andschool-level silos and encourage to nurture
cohorts. The initialfaculty cohort team comprises five of the six facilitators of the new cohorts. Moreover, all sevenmembers of the initial faculty cohort continue to meet. This community of practice is leading thedevelopment of additional workshops, implementation of an assessment/evaluation framework todocument the effect of active learning as this continues and expands through SCSE, writing grantproposals to enable further dissemination of the multidisciplinary cohort model approach acrossa college of engineering and science, and supporting each other’s individual research endeavors.IntroductionThis paper describes Work in Progress (WIP) efforts to increase active learning in a college ofengineering and science. Motivation for this project
in the open-ended responses about these team-basedapplied projects was that most occur at the end of the program, usually acting as a capstone orsenior project. As a result, many these projects occur as part of academic classes within theirrespective programs. Projects tend to be tailored to meet the needs of different majors, as well asthe current needs of industry and the community. For example, some of these projects maybenefit the community or a company by having students build a product that can be used (e.g., apiece of specialized equipment or a campus bridge). Likewise, these applied products help thestudent gain direct experience (e.g., skills and knowledge) working on a specialized project intheir field of interest (e.g., a
authors developed an exploratory pilot interview focusing on students’identification and recognition of the application of course concepts into their senior designprojects. The pilot interview was qualitative, semi-structured, and open-ended in nature.2,3 Theinterview protocol is listed in table 4.In order to explore students’ ability to recognize and identify mechatronics, instrumentation, andexperimental design concepts without biasing their answers at the initiation of the interview, theprotocol followed a specified format. The first stage of the interview allowed the students toexplain their senior design project (i.e. their roles, problems faced, and stage in design). Thesecond stage of the interview engaged students in talk about concepts
Technological University since March 2014. She has the position of an interpreter and her current area of activities includes: organization international conferences, visits of foreign delega- tions, writing minutes of the meetings; preparation documents for concluding international agreements and making calendar and end-of-year reports. Marina is the author or co-author of about 15 research papers.Dr. Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Sanger is a professor in the School of Engineering Technology in the College of Technology of Purdue University. His focus and passion is real world, industry based, senior capstone experiences both domes- tically and internationally. He has successfully developed
College. She is the senior design co-ordinator for Mechanical Engineering within the School of Engi- neering at Penn State Behrend. She is also involved in the executive committee of Design In Engineering Education Division at ASEE and the Capstone Design Conference.Johnathan Moody, Pennsylvania State College, Erie c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 MAKER: Redesign of a Multipurpose Hardware Tool to Improve its Functionality and MarketabilityAbstractThis paper presents the summary of a maker project that redesigned a multi-purpose utility tool,originally designed for linemen. While the tool had a great potential, its original design was aletdown and the product was a
andcomplex problems,” can be achieved through educational practices, such as first-year seminars,learning communities, E-Portfolios, service learning courses, internships and capstone projects(7). Barriers that exist for integrative learning in higher education today often point to afragmented undergraduate curriculum (collections of independent classes in general education,specialized study, and electives) and the organization of knowledge into distinct and separatecolleges and departments, “even though scholarship, learning, and life have no such artificialboundaries” (p. 16) (7). Learning communities, capstone experiences, and service learningprojects can transcend these barriers by organizing around interdisciplinary themes, linkingcross
decisions as we flipped our multi-sectionsophomore project-based design engineering course, Mechanical Engineering (ME 270). Ourcourse is part of the mechanical engineering department’s critical design course chain, whichalso includes a course on introduction to engineering graphics and two senior capstone designcourses (Mechanical Systems and Multidisciplinary). These critical design courses are “chained”together through prerequisites. ME 270 serves as the initial exposure to the application ofengineering design tools and methodologies, which are shared across the chain.In ME 270 students work in permanent design teams tasked with the creation of micro-economykits (projects) resulting in a working design prototype that promotes sustainability and
Proceedings, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, INFORMS Transactions on Education, and the International Journal of Engineering Ed- ucation, and others. She authored the book Oral Communication Excellence for Engineers and Scientists, published in summer 2013. Over the past 15 years Dr. Norback has given over 40 conference presen- tations and workshops at nation-wide conferences such as ASEE, where she has served as chair of the Liberal Education/Engineering & Society (LEES) Division. She has been an officer for the Education Forum of INFORMS and has served as Associate Chair for the National Capstone Design Conference. Dr. Norback has a Bachelors’ degree from Cornell University and a Masters and PhD from
Technological University After an 18 year career in the automotive industry, Dr. De Clerck joined the Michigan Tech Department of Mechanical Engineering - Engineering Mechanics in August 2009. His areas of expertise include noise and vibration, structural dynamics, design, modal analysis, model validation, inverse methods applied to design, and advanced measurement techniques.Dr. Michele Miller, Michigan Technological University Dr. Michele Miller is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Technological University. She teaches classes on manufacturing and does research in engineering education with particular interest in hands-on ability, lifelong learning, and project-based learning.Dr. Ibrahim Miskioglu, Michigan
for team-based learning, aswell as for a mentor to provide advice and feedback.Applied in an academic setting, the SEEA concept provides the possibility for a much broaderscope of learning environments than a capstone project or industry internship. These moretraditional approaches provide a beneficial learning experience and support integrating thevarious components of the SE body of knowledge, but are limited by time and domain. Thecapstone is usually a single project and at most a year in length. If it covers the full lifecycle,then it must be a fairly simple project and most likely represents only one domain. An internshipis even more limited, given that few companies would assign a student to a significant role orprovide much variation
students on their course projects. He was given an Outstanding Advising Award by USF and has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards at the department, college, university (Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teaching Award) and state (TIP award) levels. Scott is also a member of the executive com- mittee of a Helios-funded Middle School Residency Program for Science and Math (for which he taught the capstone course in spring 2014) and is on the planning committee for a new NSF IUSE grant to trans- form STEM Education at USF. His research is in the areas of solution thermodynamics and environmental monitoring and modeling.Dr. Sylvia W. Thomas, University of South Florida Dr. Sylvia Wilson Thomas is currently an
Paper ID #16821Seven Axioms of Good Engineering: Development of a Case Study-BasedCourse for NASADr. Anthony F. Luscher, Ohio State University Dr. Anthony Luscher has taught engineering design for 23 years at the freshman, sophomore and senior levels. He leads the capstone design effort at Ohio State and is interested in innovative methods of teaching design. At Ohio State he conducts research in innovative fastening strategies and methods, assembly ergonomics and structural optimization.Mr. Roger Forsgren, NASA Headquarters Roger Forsgren is the director of NASA’s Academy of Program/Project and Engineering
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need to be flexible and accessible tostudents in order to help trouble-shoot computer programs, electrical circuits, fabricationtechniques, and mechanical component and system design. While simultaneously encouragingthe ambitious students who may have prior relevant experience, instructors also need to be patientand to coach those students who are not as well-prepared and who feel overwhelmed by the paceof instruction and the difficulty of the projects.Adoption of LWTL as our Freshman Engineering (FE) curriculum has had positive side effects onother parts of our BSME program. Students have asked for more hands-on experiences in otherclasses; some have incorporated Arduino microcontrollers into their senior capstone projects; anda group of
. Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University Stephen Krause is professor in the Materials Science Program in the Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of introductory materials engineering, polymers and composites, and capstone design. His research interests include evaluating conceptual knowledge, mis- conceptions and technologies to promote conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory and a Chemistry Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge and change for intro- ductory materials science and chemistry classes. He is currently conducting research on NSF projects in two areas. One is studying how strategies of engagement and feedback with
George W McNelly Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at Purdue University, West Lafayette, In- diana, USA. He received a Ph.d. from Purdue University in 1995. He is the founder and director of two industry sponsored applied research labs: Power Electronics Development and Applications Lab (PEDAL) and Smart Meter Integration Lab (SMIL). He is the Principal Investigator of one of 10 Global Innovation projects funded by the US department of State, Rapid, Smart Grid Impact RSGI), partnering with DeMontfort University in Leicester, UK, and UNESP in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He has been a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) since 1998.Mr. Naveen Kumar Koyi, Purdue University, West Lafayette Naveen Kumar was
example of evolvable SDRbased laboratories for three existing undergraduate courses. In this project, we are developingnew lab components that can be adopted by multiple courses ranging from freshman yearintroductory course to senior year capstone design projects. Specifically, we have developed aSDR based general modulation/demodulation platform with a graphical user interface (GUI).This user-friendly GUI will allow students to adjust RF parameters such as carrier frequency andsymbol rate. More importantly, this general modulation/demodulation platform is capable oftransmitting many popular modulation schemes such as BPSK, QPSK, 8PSK, 16PSK, 16QAM,64QAM. Additionally, students are able to observe the transmitted signal in both time andfrequency