Paper ID #14678The Efficacy of Project Lead the Way: A Systematic Literature ReviewDr. Justin L. Hess, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis Justin L. Hess received his PhD from Purdue University’s School of Engineering Education along with his Master’s of Science and Bachelor of Science from Purdue’s School of Civil Engineering. Justin is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the STEM Education Research Institute at IUPUI. Justin’s research interests include developing pedagogical strategies to improve STEM students’ ethical reasoning skills; exploring the role of empathy within design, innovation and
engineering undergraduate students. Ourcurrent article suggests coaching points based on two decades of capstone projects that havesuccessfully promoted economic development in the region we serve, while simultaneouslycreating integrative opportunities for MBA and MS Engineering Technology Graduates todemonstrate mastery of the subject matter. Recently we extended our alliance to a cross-disciplinary partnership between the College of Business and Technology and the College ofEducation. Our cross-disciplinary graduate student team addressed a highly nonlineartechnology-education-business issue in a political scenario and recommended mutually beneficialsolution paths. During the 2015 Annual ASEE Conference, a glaring need was revealed forenhanced
) changes over time.7 In fact, in another publication, Chua claims that the morea student participates in project-based learning, the better the student grows in critical thinkingand generates better project-related products.5 For similar reasons, Rasul et al. advocate early,deliberate preparation of a student before their senior year capstone project.8 The importance of capstone design courses in an engineering education is well-documented.9Ward writes that capstone projects “bring all aspects of an undergraduate student’s experiencetogether”.10 Ward further notes that the completion of capstone projects do not only benefit thestudent but also serve as validation by potential employers of the student’s ability to applyknowledge and generate
education.12 In literature, themost popular way of integrating real-world problem solving, especially in multidisciplinaryteams, seems to be through capstone design courses. As of 2005, roughly 35% of undergraduatecapstone design projects were conducted in multidisciplinary teams of students (an increase from21% in 1994).6 Evidence has shown, both qualitatively and quantitatively, that students benefitgreatly from working in multidisciplinary settings. Survey results show that engineeringprofessionals associate interdisciplinary thinking with creativity in their peers and ratemultidisciplinary work as very important in preparation for industry.7 Similarly, students whoparticipated in a multidisciplinary capstone course identified functioning in a
, vertically integrated, project-based engineering program. QScience Proceedings, page 73, 2015. ISSN 2226-9649. [3] Stuart Palmer and Wayne Hall. An evaluation of a project-based learning initiative in engineering education. European Journal of Engineering Education, 36(5):357–365, 2011. doi: 10.1080/03043797.2011.593095. [4] Robert H Todd, Carl D Sorensen, and Spencer P Magleby. Designing a senior capstone course to satisfy industrial customers. Journal of Engineering Education, 82(2):92–100, 1993. ISSN 2168-9830. [5] Nathan Hotaling, Barbara Burks Fasse, Lewis F Bost, Christopher D Hermann, and Craig R Forest. A quantitative analysis of the effects of a multidisciplinary engineering capstone design course. Journal of Engineering
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.Prof. Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas - El Paso Dr. Tseng is a Professor and Chair of Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering at UTEP. His research focuses on the computational intelligence, data mining, bio- informatics and advanced manu- facturing. Dr. Tseng published in many refereed journals such as IEEE Transactions, IIE Transaction, Journal of Manufacturing Systems and others. He has been serving as a principle investigator of many
now emphasize on the engineering design process and mostof these courses now contain “hands-on”, team based design projects1-5. Benefits of such hands-on design projects implemented in the freshman year include, increased retention, studentmotivation, academic performance, etc. After the freshman year, most mechanical engineeringstudents rarely have opportunities to engage in hands-on design projects until their senior yearwhen the capstone design projects are implemented, where students apply their acquiredknowledge to an open-ended problem and produce a working prototype of the design or a finalproduct that has been manufactured. Within the Mechanical Engineering curriculum, somesophomore and junior level courses contain hands-on labs and
influences students’ subsequent submission of assessable work”, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 571-581.6. Trotter, E. (2006) “Student perceptions of continuous summative assessment”, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 505-521.7. Gary, K. “The Benefits of Transparency in Managing Software Engineering Capstone Projects”, proceedings of the National Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE 2010), Louisville, KY, June 2010.8. Gary, K. “The Software Enterprise: Practicing Best Practices in Software Engineering Education”, The International Journal of Engineering Education Special Issue on Trends in Software Engineering Education, Volume 24
2001, she joined the Spacecraft Technology Center as an Assistant Director where she was responsible for the structural and thermal analysis of pay- loads. She served as Director of the Space Engineering Institute and in 2010 she accepted a position with the Academic Affairs office of the Dwight Look College of Engineering where she oversaw outreach, recruiting, retention and enrichment programs for the college. Since 2013, she serves as the Executive Director for Industry and Nonprofit Partnerships with responsibilities to increase opportunities for under- graduates engineering students to engage in experiential learning multidisciplinary team projects. These include promoting capstone design projects sponsored by
gained utilizing various versions of the Arduino microprocessor will help develop future ultra-low power capstone and embedded processing class projects.- Knowledge gained from the use of the integrated development environment (IDE) software package in this project can be used to create tutorials and labortory exercises for the digital design and the advanced embedded design courses.- System-level designers need to be able to develop hardware driver(s) for targeted hardware platforms. Knowledge gained from developing ultra-small hardware drivers for a specific application will help create advanced laboratory exercises for the system- level design course.IV.F. Future ImprovementsWhile the platform created was successful in
Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) to terrestrial receiving antennae. This system is called Space Solar Power (SSP).Complex systems require multi-disciplinary teams working cooperatively to integrate theirfindings into a comprehensive whole. Engineering capstone projects are a good model however,they tend to include students within a single department and may lack the academic diversityneeded in a holistic study. Ultra-ambitious efforts like SSP are likely to require internationalparticipation, so an objective of the SSP-WPT team was to include representatives from severalnations as well.Attracting students to a summer internship generally requires pay. To offer college creditsgenerally requires tuition. Asking students to work pro bono is asking a
fabrication of the Berkut UAV for Geneva Aerospace, and engine fairings for the U.S. Army. He was the test conductor during the UltraLight Sensor Platform project, which was a research initiative to develop an ultralight sensor platform by creating an optionally-piloted aircraft system. As test conductor he wrote the flight test plans, flight test cards, and supervised the flight test team during test missions. He advises the Student UAS Team. He teaches the capstone aircraft design course, aircraft flight dynamics, and aircraft advanced performance. He has since left Raspet and transitioned to the aerospace engineering department. He is also developing the unmanned aircraft system engineering curriculum
, there exists one significant drawback: fresh graduatesare unskilled at the process of representing real-world systems as idealized models that can besubsequently analyzed using theoretical textbook principles. This conclusion was based uponanecdotal feedback received from employers and freshly graduated engineers. This anecdotalfeedback was enough to initiate a more formal process to explore the transition from theclassroom to the real-world for an engineer or technologist.The capstone course, where students do projects with industry, attempts to fill in the voidbetween theory and practice. However, based upon feedback from fresh engineering graduates, itdoes not perform an optimum job of doing so since it is a single course taken during the
Paper ID #15776Comparison of Students’ Outcome to Different Types of Project Based Ser-vice Learning Experiences for CEE Senior DesignDr. Dan Budny P.E., University of Pittsburgh Dr. Dan Budny joined the University of Pittsburgh faculty as Academic Director of the Freshman Pro- grams and an Associate Professor in Civil Engineering in January 2000. Prior to that time he served as Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Freshman Programs at Purdue University. He holds a B.S. and M.S. degree from Michigan Technological University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. degree from Michigan State University. His research has focused on
focuses on the analysis of designated andemergent leaders during the project26.Project-based learning is associated with increased student satisfaction, skills development, andlong-term retention of material27. In engineering education, it is an effective mode in which toteach design28 and can closely model engineering practice: in a typical course, teams ideate,design, and prototype an engineering product. The types of skills developed in project-basedcourses, including teamwork, communication, and self-directed research, are congruent withbroader professional goals for graduating engineering students. Finally, current accreditationguidelines for U.S. schools require a capstone design course for all engineering programs26.Therefore major U.S
a wide variety of courses including data structures, computer architecture and organization, software development, and the senior capstone project. His re- search interests include communication and critical thinking skills in computer science education, and the impact of technology on work/home boundary management. He received his Ph.D. from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, NY. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Evaluating the Collaboration between a Software Project Management Course and a Software Development Course in Terms of Student Learning and ExperienceAbstractThe ability to manage software teams and the ability to productively
learning were implemented in a senior capstonedesign class where student learning is assessed. The capstone students are required to identify aneducational need within the mechanical engineering technology program. This need is discussedwith the faculty for the development of a hands-on laboratory instrument that will facilitatelearning in the program. The results from these discussions determine the design requirementsfor the capstone project. These capstone students must also learn the design process that hasmilestones with deliverables associated with a Gantt chart and work breakdown structure. Theymust also develop an instructional lab with a series of questions that helps reinforce the theorytaught in the classroom. And finally, they are
student outcome were met, but were within 3% of beingunsatisfactory. Table 1: Assessment instruments used to assess student outcomes Assessment Instrument Student Outcomes Assessed a b c d e f g h i j k Homework Problems x x x x x x x Exams x x x x x Capstone Project Assessment x x Peer Evaluations x Video and Exam x Capstone Reports x x x x x
Undergraduate Engineering Technology StudentsAbstractThe introduction of Six Sigma quality principles in industry has revolutionized production, aswell as many other sectors of society. Academia has not moved as quickly to adjust its curricula,as it should to keep pace with the demands of industry. This paper documents the need andstructure of a Six Sigma Green Belt Certification program, driven by the industrial advisorycommittee of the Engineering Technology program at Western Carolina University, a regionalcomprehensive university that works closely with its industrial partners in multiple modes. Thisnew program is targeted at undergraduate Engineering Technology students, and takes advantageof two existing courses and capstone projects that
softwareand 3D printing have been used by students to create 3D visual aids or scale models ofenvironmental engineering projects in a one semester capstone design course. Obstacles specificto environmental engineering, including scale of the design and selection of engineering graphicssoftware packages are discussed. Assessment of 3D printing in our capstone design course isevaluated.Background3D printers allow electronic source files to be converted into three dimensional objects. Most 3Dprinters convert stereolithography files (stl files) into objects by forming layers of plastic fromthe bottom to the top, which is known as additive manufacturing.2 Until recently, 3D printingwas used primarily by engineers for rapid prototyping. According to
took a chair position in electrical engineering at Bucknell University. He is currently interested in engineering design education, engineering education policy, and the philosophy of engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Making a Maker Space Smart Badging System Julie Darwin, Joseph Kale, Daniel Park, Andrew Sellers, Ian Wallace, Zach Winters, Michael S. Thompson, Margot Vigeant, R. Alan Cheville Bucknell UniversityAs a capstone design project a team of students from Bucknell University created a “SmartBadging System” to monitor use and control access of various Maker Space resources, including3D
. Figure 1: Thermal Engineering Laboratory in the new Engineering building.Undergraduate Designed, Manufactured, and Assembled ProjectsConducting and assessing a senior capstone design course in a small university setting has itschallenges. The project is very limited by the amount of resources available, both in terms offinance and in expertise. At the same time, the students must be exposed to the real world withcustomer-defined constraints, budgetary controls, and time limitations.Despite budget constraints, the author set up the Thermal Engineering Laboratory at a smallliberal arts university. Heat Transfer Laboratory fees were used for projects that supportedThermal Engineering courses. Also, the author has been successful in obtaining grants
various courses with nospecific framework likely had limited effect. Studies have shown that going about teachingethics in this manner likely results in teaching “microethics”8 which lacks the broader context ofhow ethics impacts society as a whole.It is also noted that senior engineering students that are taking their capstone course are verybusy. The engineering capstone in our program is typical of other institutions in that it requires alarge time commitment from the students. They have projects to complete, numerous reports towrite, and presentations to prepare. It is likely that taking this ethics examination is not a highpriority in their list of things to complete so it may not be given the serious attempt that wewould hope from these
outcomes.The course description This sophomore level class is required for computer science, computer engineering andinformation systems majors in the West Virginia University Institute of Technology. The classenrollment is between 15-18 students. The class is the pre-requisite for CS 322 System Analysisand Design Methodology course which is prerequisite for CS 461 Senior Project capstone class(capstone series). In order to introduce software engineering processes and skills with respect toindustry standards the class is designed to create a real business world simulation. In the class thestudents are grouped in three membered teams and then one student team is assigned as the clientof another. Hence each group will play the role of developer for
future. The Air Force needs an ever increasing number of ourgraduates to serve as RPA (Remotely Piloted Aircraft) pilots, and for graduates in general, tounderstand how UAS systems support combat operations. To help students understand thecapabilities and limitations of UAS systems and to help motivate them toward the RPA careerfield, we have developed a comprehensive UAS program ranging from training RPA pilots toperforming research and development for new UAS systems. This paper will highlight both theRPA Airmanship training program and the UAS research program at the U.S. Air ForceAcademy (USAFA), and assess how this comprehensive approach is preparing future RPAleaders. As an example of a cadet senior capstone design project, we discuss the
Dynamics Research on Undergraduate EducationAbstract The obtaining of an undergraduate degree concludes a successful student universitycareer. For many pursuing an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering, the process canbe tedious and difficult. Much like an engineering design, an engineering education requiresspecific tools to see the problem from design to production. For many, the desired solution toproducing the degree is supplemented only by an introductory design class, a few hands onlaboratories that provide an introduction to a few key basic concepts, and a capstone course thatrequires the implementation of the acquired knowledge in a final design project intending tomimic the design process
project is greater or less than what will normally be taken on as partof a course or Capstone project. This method allows the faculty member to hire studentsspecifically for their talents or interests from sophomore to senior level. When the project has a significant number of deliverables or requires a higher degree ofcertainty in the outcomes needed by the external sponsor, a research contract can be set in place.However, now faculty members will probably be offloaded to work on the project rather thanjust manage the work of the undergraduates and graduate students or students from otherdisciplines such as mechanical engineering who may be hired depending on the scope of theapplied research. Recently, some small businesses have
within the process control industry leading to the design and installationof new industrial-grade laboratory infrastructure in an undergraduate capstone experience.The multi-year collaboration between academia and industry resulted in the development of ayear-long student-driven project centered on the design, development, and installation of newlaboratory infrastructure on a scale beyond the budgetary resources of the host institution or anyindividual industry partner. The resulting installation is a permanent education anddemonstration system constructed to industry standards, utilized in the delivery of conceptsrelated to process control, measurement, and communications in undergraduate courseworkwhile also providing a platform for
design.MethodsIn capstone design course, ENGR4520 Design and Manufacturing of Biomedical Device andSystem at Robert Morris University, students were divided into groups (4-5 students per group)and selected their own project. The objective of the course and project were to understandDesign Control3, design, implement, and fabricate the prototype of a medical device thataddresses current market need. Student projects were in many different areas includingorthopedic implants, prosthetics, biomaterials, instrumentation and etc. Each group was requiredto produce a working prototype of the proposed design to assess the functionality of the device.For the groups who selected an orthopedic medical device, such as total joint replacement andtrauma implant
businesses and projects ranging from a $100M innovative business to an over $3B annual revenue portfolio of projects. In his 30+ years at IBM he worked with clients in Government, Aerospace, Automotive, Electronics, Communications, and the Architecture/Engineering/Constructions industries across North America, Europe and Asia. He was a key leader of R&D transformation during the turnaround of IBM in the mid-1990s. Today Sta´s teaches various courses in Senior Leadership, Program Management, System Engineering, and Governance, and is a consultant to numerous clients in the complex systems integration business. He is also actively involved in developing new courses and innovative course delivery methods.Ms. Judith G