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Works?, Change, 30(4): 26-35, 1998.12) Long, J. and Young, L.: Multiplayer On-Line Role Playing Game Style Grading in a Project-Based Software Engineering Technology Capstone Course Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC, June 2011.13) Prince, M.: Does Active Learning Work? A Review of the Research, Journal of Engineering Education, 93(3): 223-231, 2004.14) Tharp, T.: “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon & Schuster, pp. 256, 2006.15) Ulrich, K. and Eppinger, S.: “Product Design and Development”, 5th Edition, McGraw-Hill Education, pp. 432, 2011.Appendix: Summary of Creativity Techniques Utilized in this Course
key to multidisciplinary engineeringpractice? A physical model of a design concept, based on simplifying assumptions (whichchange as the project progresses and one learns better what effects matter more than others), iscreated. This is an approximation of the real system and a hierarchy of models is possibledepending on the reason for modeling (see Figure 2). Laws of nature (e.g., Newton’s Laws,Maxwell’s Equations) are applied to the model, along with component model equations, togenerate the equations of motion for the multidisciplinary engineering system. These equations– nonlinear and coupled – are solved with Simulink, SimMechanics, SimHydraulics, LabVIEW,etc. to predict how the model will behave when various inputs – desired and
, crowd learning of Hands-on engaged Liquid Piston Engine research learning Experiment for theAcademic ClassroomCourses Machining Software Data and user feedback for scaling- Experience with industryServing both Research and Development up of project relevant skillsEducation and through Classroom UseResearch Department of Energy Projects that might also be related Real world projects, Sponsored Capstone to research, industry engagement course credits, IP, job Design for R&D projects with industry
humanistic orientation directly relevant toengineering students’ intellectual development and professional identity formation.For the purposes of this paper, the authors wish to highlight the impact that early Making asCritical Inquiry initiatives have had when integrated into the late stages of the Programs inDesign and Innovation at Rensselaer. Both humanistic inquiry and making activities have longbeen a part of PDI; however, these two have not yet been theorized as complementary, norexplicitly taught and assigned as a synthesized series of making projects or activities. Over thepast three semesters, Making as Critical Inquiry has been iterated into our STS Senior Projectcourse, a requirement for all PDI students at Rensselaer. While the Capstone
knowing a foreign language. Anna’s work at International Affairs is multifunctional. it comprises interpreting at international conferences run by the University, administration of several international projects, interpreting at negotiations with partners, protocol assistance for international delegations, coordination of business trips of KNRTU management, and etc.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 this area at Purdue and at
for assessing student application on sustainability topics in engineering and includesquestions on the cognitive levels achieved, linkage between sustainability pillars (environmental,economic, social), quantitative versus qualitative incorporation of sustainability, and thesustainability topics students may have been exposed to during their undergraduate engineeringcareer18,21. The TUES 2 research team is in the process of publishing results from the applicationof the expanded version of this rubric on students’ senior design capstone and sustainableengineering course projects. The results will be used to inform student learning across acurriculum that integrates sustainability via stand-alone course, module, or blended methods.Table 1
Academy seeks to educate and inspire their civil engineering studentsthrough a rigorous and realistic academic program. One of the cornerstone courses in theprogram is a Construction Management Course that incorporates a variety of hands-on, real-world, learning challenges. The objective of the first third of the course is for the students togain a foundational understanding of the basics of construction management to include projectbidding, contract mechanisms, scheduling, estimating, and project controls. The topics arepresented in a traditional classroom environment. The students are then challenged in the nextthird of the course to apply those construction management skills in a hands-on constructionsimulation exercise identified as the
for increased “relevancy” of engineering educationwith greater industry-academia collaboration on many fronts. It was inspired by a round tablediscussion, where engineering graduates of Region’s colleges have suggested ways to startdeveloping viable and enduring connections between local industries and the academicinstitutions of the Arab Gulf States. Strategies to help promote the collaboration effort areoutlined. In particular, activities (plans, and scenarios) perceived as effective in closing the gapbetween academia and industries are described. Training, capstone courses, consulting by facultymembers, and joint research projects, aimed at serving the interest of both parties (academia &the industrial partners) are also addressed. The
evaluations, resource CSP mentors and peersresearchdesign requirements, and initial design process, Participate in a summer industrial, including requirement and verification clinical, or research internshipcapabilities development. Students develop project (student’s choice) proposals suitable for either their senior Year Course Description (credit hour) Activities and Development capstone course. Continue research throughout yearYear 4: BIOE 435 (2 credit hours) and 436 (2 credit Interact with
infrastructure Figure 2: Sample of grouping of "stickie" notesRound 2: Online poll to request ideasof learning outcomes Process – Five members of the CIT-E community, all of whom were PIs on the NSF grant that funded the project, are members of the “management team.” This management team simplified the wording of the outcomes from Round 1 and split the original outcome 3 into two distinct outcomes (3 and 4 in the new list). Furthermore, one additional outcome was added to coincide with exercises that been successfully conducted at University Y in which students go out into the local area and inspect real infrastructure (number 8 in the list below): 1. solve open-ended infrastructure
NationalCenter for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter). Epicenter is funded by the NationalScience Foundation and directed by Stanford University and VentureWell (formerly NCIIA). Oneof the elements of participation involves redesigning the capstone senior design curriculum tomake it more innovation and entrepreneurship oriented and as such have a positive impact onstudent satisfaction. This paper details the expectations of students beginning a two-coursesequence in the capstone curriculum. The student survey data led to a rebalancing of the curriculumto one that was solely based on “how-to-do” senior design projects to one that still includes “how-to-do" lecture themes but now includes lecture themes in innovation and entrepreneurship
mindset education, creative problem solving, and innovation. He is an author of a fluid mechanics textbook. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Fostering an Entrepreneurial Mindset through a Sophomore Level, Multi- Disciplinary, Engineering Design Studio ExperienceAbstractFirst year, project-based, engineering design courses have become common within engineeringcurricula across the country. In our first year course, we intentionally lay the foundation for thedevelopment of an entrepreneurial mindset within the context of traditional project-based designexperiences. In addition, engineering programs have traditionally incorporated a capstone designproject during the senior year and this
imperative that we recognize the internalization ofthe principles of engineering design as a career sustaining competency.Accordingly, we have piloted a pre-capstone course called Principles ofEngineering Design. In this course we aim to empower the students to internalizethe principles of engineering design, learn through doing (reading, designing,building, testing, and post-project analysis), learn to frame, postulate, andimplement a plan of action for their Spring 2016 Capstone projects, and transitionfrom being a student to a junior engineer in a company. In this course through ascaffolded set of assignments and activities, we provide an opportunity forstudents to internalize the principles of engineering design. In Fall 2015 we
formulate, solve, and properly tacklemultidisciplinary problems.Particularly, this paper addresses the effectiveness of combined virtual and physical hands-onactivities in students’ learning which was infused in the capstone senior design project. Seniordesign projects are open-ended and are similar to the research that scientists perform toward amore comprehensive understanding of nature or new scientific knowledge. As a reinforcedlearning methodology to greatly assist students’ reasoning and problem-solving skills, virtuallearning was first integrated at the planning stage of their projects. This approach is in contrastwith the typical senior design courses where only limited resources are available for planningexperiments. Using virtual learning
design and construction briefing, andoral exam. The briefing and oral exam is intended to simulate a realistic environment typical ofrecent graduate military engineer officers, and with a project that is based on the real-worldexperiences of the faculty. The paper will detail the course, the road design and constructionproject, and the briefing and oral exam. An assessment will then be presented with respect to theCE495 Transportation Engineering course objectives, civil engineering program studentoutcomes, and department mission to educate and inspire. 3 Literature ReviewThe original concept of the experienced based learning in the CE495 – TransportationEngineering was presented in the 2010 ASEE
the final project, he/she might choose cover only Lab 6 or Lab 7.Final ProjectStudents are expected to finish one regular lab exercise per week and work on a final project afterfinishing all regular lab exercises. Some regular lab exercises like Lab 6 or Lab 7 might be a two-week project. Students will apply the knowledge they acquired from regular lab projects to thefinal project. The final project meant to be an open-end project. Interested students might chooseto continue their final project after finishing this course and use it as a senior capstone project topicin their senior year. The undergraduate students participating in this curriculum project chose toinvestigate the co-existence of a FM radio station and a digital communication
was a great feature. It was very simple to just double clickon the part and edit the settings by double clicking.Thus the recommendation is to continue using the PSoC 5LP board in future class projects. Itwas relatively easy to learn, the information was useful to their senior capstone projects and theadded value can be used for ABET ETAC Student Outcome-H (an understanding of the need forand an ability to engage in self-directed continuing professional development).Bibliography1. Web Site http://www.cypress.com/documentation/development-kitsboards/cy8ckit-059-psoc-5lp-prototyping-kit- onboard-programmer-and2. Web Site http://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/
engi-neering design and provides a project-based design experience wherein the students design andbuild a microcontroller driven autonomous mechatronic device. In doing so, they are provided anearly exposure to the systematic approach to engineering problem solving that brings together fun-damentals concepts of forces, motions, energy, materials, manufacturing processes, and machinesand mechanisms. This goal aligns well with our department’s vision to create a design-orientedparadigm of Mechanical Engineering education that begins with an early introduction to designprinciples and ends with capstone design experience. Some of the Course Learning Objectives (CLOs) of this class pertaining to the design experi-ence are: 1. Apply Engineering
wirelessengineering education”, we have developed and demonstrated the first nationwide example ofevolvable software defined radio (SDR) based laboratories for three existing undergraduatecourses [4][5]. Given the success of this project, NSF has continued to support us through aTransforming Undergraduate Education in Science (TUES) type II project to further develop aseries of SDR based lab modules that serve a wide range of courses from a freshman yearintroductory course to senior year capstone design projects.In this paper, we report an SDR [6]-[11] based signal detection and RF parameter estimationplatform which can be adopted by many courses of electrical and computer engineering curricula.This SDR based platform is equipped with a user-friendly
approach to a building project in design and construction Milwaukee School of decision making …….. Students are ……. to produce high-quality 3-D Engineering designs and construction documents, along with cost-estimating, and construction planning.Introduction to BIM, North Emphasis is placed on research and integration of architectural,Carolina A&T State Univ. structural, MEP, specifications and cost estimating of building systems for decision modeling using BIM.Construction Management Applying knowledge and skills learned in the previous courses, BIM,Capstone, North Dakota and other software programs to prepare a bid proposal and an on-siteState
to transform the content learnedinto practical projects implies restructuring a course, with teacher training and changes in thecontent of the disciplines10. The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE)5 reports thatstudents involved in “high impact practices” have higher scores on deep approaches to learning,integrating learned theory into meaningful applications.Very often, students’ contact with practical activities is during traditional lab classes, where thestudents do hands on work on pre-formatted experiments used to strengthen the theoreticalconcepts6, or when they are concentrating on their capstone projects7,8, where students apply theknowledge acquired on engineering design projects very late, giving them little chance
across campus. Not only are expenses incurred inhardware costs but also in manpower hours setting up and tearing down computing labs, installingsoftware and maintaining images.In [1], the authors provide excellent survey of the opportunities of using Cloud Computing ineducational environment. We also believe that the problems identified above can be solved byintegrating a private cloud computing environment into James Madison University’s educationalresources. This challenge became the topic of a senior capstone project at James Madison Uni-versity. Two students and their advisor proposed to address these issues by utilizing VMwarevSphere [2] and Horizon View software [3] suites. Horizon View is a cloud computing solutionthat provides access to
served more than 2000 students since its inception. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Paper ID #16190 Dr. Wickliff is blessed to work daily in the area of her passion – developing young professionals – in her exciting current role at Texas A&M University. She is the Director of the College of Engineering’s, Zachry Leadership Program and a Professor of Engineering Practice. At Texas A&M University, she has taught Capstone Senior Design and Foundations of Engineering courses, but now teaches Engineering Leadership Development courses. She has also taught Project
Paper ID #16824Incorporating Engineering Programs for Secondary Schools in Trinidad andTobago (Work in Progress)Miss Tasha Tiffany Tardieu, University of Michigan Recent graduate of the University of Michigan, studied Civil Engineering with an International Studies Minor for Engineers. As a student in the College of Engineering’s Honors Program, I investigated the incorporation of co-curricular engineering programs at the upper secondary school level in Trinidad and Tobago for my capstone project. This project will be continued beyond my undergraduate career.Dr. Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan Shanna Daly is an
increased team discussion time, frequentassessments and additional teamwork factors such as conflict occurrence and resolution will alsobe addressed. The impact that improved teamwork skills may have on students will be evaluatedthrough collection of annual retention data, performance in the capstone design course, andspecific questions related to teamwork readiness on our department’s annual exit survey tograduating students. The impact will be compared to historical student data, in which thetraditional lecture-based introductory course was offered, and used to guide continuousdevelopment of our undergraduate curriculum to prepare our students for future success.References1. Richardson J. et al., Freshman Design Projects in the Foundation
various approachesto the process of monitoring and controlling projects as well as managing a construction site. Inquadrant III courses, the emphasis is on the detailed tools and techniques for buildingconstruction. The quadrant IV courses emphasize upon acquiring the skills and the approachesneeded for collective representation and dispute resolution. In addition to the courses in Figure2, the capstone course (CM 595 Applied Research in Construction Management) as well as the‘Research Methods’ course encompasses and applies all prior course works, and requires theproduction of a complete professional-quality project analysis, utilizing actual industry data andresources.The students’ ratings on the satisfaction levels of the overall graduate
-centric environments for design, invention, andprototyping. In a makerspace, users work side by side on different projects within an openculture of collaboration. Makerspaces are generally equipped with traditional manufacturingequipment, such as manual mills and lathes, more advanced equipment, such as CNC-mills(Computerized Numerical Control) machine tools, and emerging rapid prototyping tools such as3D printers, along with worktables, chairs, and even couches. Similar to traditional workshops,especially larger makerspaces are divided into areas, based on the materials groups andmanufacturing methods.These spaces exist to facilitate a culture of design, invention, and prototyping. Physicalprototyping is a key activity in product development and
impacts are not primary learning goals for the course Graduate-level course 34 Senior capstone design 28 First year introductory course that include ethics among other topics 24 First year design-focused course that includes ethics among other learning 21 goals Professional issues course (any level; e.g. project management, 14 communications) Other 14 Full course
engineering students participating in virtual team projects was used in theanalysis. Results from the analysis are presented suggesting a statistically significant impact ofthe intervention on self-management skills when comparing randomly assigned teams with andwithout the intervention. The intervention is designed to be scalable so that it can be embeddedinto existing project-based courses. Our findings have important implications for thedevelopment of teamwork skills in engineering courses and provide evidence of a successfulstrategy that can be integrated into the existing engineering curriculum.KeywordsVirtual teams, team effectiveness, information and communication technologies, engineeringeducation, collaborative learningIntroductionThe