analytic rubric and having to provide freeformcomments upon a student artifact. The evaluation criteria are limited, through use of a rubric, tothose considered key for reviewing the assignment, but feedback can be easily provided in thosecases where student performance within a particular criterion is either above or belowexpectations. Projects of sufficiently long duration, such as term projects or capstones, are theassignments that would be the “best fit” for applying single point rubrics, as there would besufficient time for students to utilize the formative feedback to improve their project or theirperformance.In summary, the authors believe that there is considerable potential in adopting single pointrubrics for formative assessment purposes
candrastically reduce those costs and timeframes. In this project, functional prototype inserts forinjection molding were developed and analyzed with CAD/CAE software. These molds were 3Dprinted and tested using a commercial plastic injection molding machine. Calculations forcompression, shrinkage, and cooling of the inserts were used to establish initial information fordevelopment of the molding conditions. There were measurements taken on the inserts and themolded parts to validate calculations and specified dimensions. This development procedure willserve as guideline for future parts. The project was taken as a senior project, and it is expectedthat the results will allow a plastic injection molding company to rapidly and efficiently producea short
strong basis in mathematics and science4,7. Whether this is the current case or not,even conventional curriculum relies heavily on the design process, as most of the sub-disciplinesin engineering require the practicality of design skills in modeling and converting ideas intorealities. Additionally, ABET (specialized accreditation agency for programs for engineeringworldwide) has encouraged the existence of capstone project-based courses to ensure thatgraduates are prepared for real-world, practical applications of engineering principles inindustry8,9,10. Beyond the importance of science and mathematics fundamentals, global efforts are changingengineering education by emphasizing professional skills and active learning. In 1997, ABETchanged to
of an undergraduate curriculum in mechatronics systems engineering. Journal of Engineering Education, 88(2), 173-179. 4. Hargrove, J. B. (2002). Curriculum, equipment and student project outcomes for mechatronics education in the core mechanical engineering program at Kettering University. Mechatronics, 12(2), 343-356. 5. Mariappan, J., & Flint, M. I. (1997). A laboratory for mechatronics courses. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. 6. Bishop, W., Nespoli, O., & Parker, W., (2012). Rubrics for accreditation and outcomes assessment in engineering capstone projects. Proceeding of Canadian Engineering Education Association Conference. APPENDIX
– engineering situation. Some decisions are Design a pumping system to fill a rooftop Sophomore, Fall required to develop the model or use the water storage tank, optimizing pipe size model to optimize a design. with economic constraints. ELEC 3371: Computer 2 project reports documenting project Interface microcontrollers for serial Engineering Lab work done in course. Projects involve communication and interrupt based timer. Course – Junior Year, microcontroller interfacing. Fall ELEC 4497: Capstone Collaboratively authored engineering Design audio amplifier, quad-copter, Design Course – Senior design proposal in the fall. wireless power
. The S-STEM program offers four separate tracks: Bachelor’s degree with a Master of Science,Bachelor’s degree with a Master of Business Administration and Graduate Certificate inEntrepreneurship, Bachelor’s degree with a Minor in Entrepreneurship, and a Bachelor’s degreewith Advanced Graduate School Preparation. Thus, each track students complete all standard BSdegree requirements, and a research- and team-based senior capstone experience that meetsABET standards for integration of technical knowledge: safety, environmental, and healthcompliance; economics and business considerations; teamwork; and project management. Thebiomedical, chemical and environmental programs offer both a research-based and the regulardesign-based senior capstone
include process monitoring and control for injection molding, plastic prod- uct design, and injection mold design. He is an inventor on three patents and author of over thirty publi- cations.Dr. Christopher Hansen, University of Massachusetts, LowellDr. Sammy G. Shina, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Sammy G. Shina, P.h.D., P.E., is the professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Mas- sachusetts Lowell and has previously lectured at University of Pennsylvania’s EXMSE Program and at the University of California Irvine. He is the coordinator of the Design and Manufacturing Certificate, the Quality Engineering Certificate, the ME senior Capstone Projects and COOP education at UML. He is a past chairman of
, June 12-15, 2005, Portland, OR. Available from: https://peer.asee.org/1465013. Dutson AJ, Todd RH, Magleby SP, Sorensen CD. 1997. A Review of Literature on Teaching Engineering Design through Project‐Oriented Capstone Courses. Journal of Engineering Education. 86(1):17-28. Available from: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.33.3949&rep=rep1&type=pdf14. Kunst BS, Goldberg JR. 2003. Standards Education in Senior Design Courses. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine. 22(4):114-117.15. Kelly W. 2003. Incorporating Engineering Standards in the Major Design Experience. In: Proceedings of the 110th ASEE Annual Conference, June 22-25, 2003, Nashville, TN. Available from
. Principles of Sustainable Development 2. Introduction to Sustainable Smart Cities 3. Low Carbon and Renewable Energy Systems 4. Managing Natural Resources and Sustainable Smart Cities 5. Green Infrastructure and Transportation 6. Green Buildings 7. Health & Livability 8. Smart Technologies for Cities & Buildings 9. Big Data & Smart Cities 10. Research Methods & Project PlanningCapstone Research Project– during the capstone research project the students will design andimplement a piece of research that will enable them to reflect on the knowledge and skillswhich they have learned during the taught modules and apply them to a real world problem orissue. This research may
Safety 1 16 Semester (7)Fall Course Course Title Credits Number SOET 361 Project Management 3 Program Elective 3 ELEC 386 Electronic Communications II 3 ELEC 416 Microelectronics Circuit Design 3 GER 3 15Semester(8)SpringCourse Course Title CreditsNumber Program Elective 3 Program Elective 3ELEC 477 Capstone Project 3SOET 370
education since 2003 (at Bucknell University) and began collaborating on sustainable engineering design research while at Georgia Tech. She is currently engaged in course development and instruction for the junior design sequence (ENGR 331 and 332) and the freshman design experience, along with coordinating junior capstone at JMU. In addition to the Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Dr. Barrella holds a Master of City and Regional Planning (Transportation) from Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Bucknell University.Dr. Justin J. Henriques, James Madison UniversityDr. Kyle G. Gipson, James Madison University Dr. Kyle Gipson is an Assistant Professor at James Madison University (United States) in
course) or to fulfill an Honors contract through a required major course in order tocomplete the 24 credit hours required to receive the Honors Diploma [3]. With engineeringcurriculum requiring 17-18 credit hours per semester, engineering students have little to nocapacity for completing the Honors Path through extra course work and typically couple Honorscontract projects with their engineering courses. Honors contract projects are mentored bysponsoring faculty mentors and are closely related to the faculty members’ engineering practiceand/or research efforts. The Honors contract projects are often (although optionally) presentedorally to the entire class, which is not only beneficial to the students who conduct them, but alsoinspirational for
to engage with. Improving undergraduateengineering education requires a better understanding of the ways in which studentsexperience ill-structured problems in the form of engineering design. With specialattention to the experiences of first-year engineering students, prior exploratory workidentified two critical thresholds that distinguished students’ ways of experiencing designas less or more comprehensive: accepting ambiguity and recognizing the value ofmultiple perspectives.The goal of current (work-in-progress) research is to develop and pilot a self-reportinstrument to assess students’ relation to these two thresholds at the completion of an ill-structured design project within the context of undergraduate engineering education
to the globalenvironment is the international senior capstone project introduced at the Purdue PolytechnicInstitute and is fully described elsewhere12. This new approach to increase the awareness inengineering students of the challenges of global teams has already resulted in multi-national teamsinvolving students from Peru, Germany, Poland, and the Netherlands and coming in the nearfuture, teams including Denmark, Russia, Australia and Dubai. This mixing of students fromdifferent nationalities stimulated this interest in learning motivation so that project topics for theseteam can be selected that would appeal to a mixed nationality team.MotivationMotivation is a crosscutting element of personality. Motivation reflects the level of identity
early as in theirfreshman year. Effective written communication skills are important for engineering education,with critical thinking being one of the most important aspects of the learning process at thecollege level. However, the efforts in required core curriculum English and communicationcourses are not always further integrated into engineering curriculum. Introducing a technicalpaper writing assignment in lower division engineering courses had the purpose of helpingstudents to be better prepared for major writing assignments in their upper division courses aswell as for their capstone project. For this study a writing assignment was introduced in anElectrical Circuits course, for electrical engineering technology students at Old
, successfully accomplish and reflect upon an activityreferred to as a compassion practicum. The compassion practicum sought to begin thedevelopment of a critical consciousness in students. Students’ projects fall into two categories:(1) a service learning type project which must in some way improve the quality of life of othersand involves a minimum of 15 hours of actual service; and (2) a guided, extensive visit of ananimal rescue society farm in which students confront animals typically used in biomedicalresearch projects and reflect on the entire experience.IntroductionBiomedical engineering is the application of engineering principles and techniques to medicine.It combines expertise in engineering with expertise in medicine and human biology to
Investigating Student Learning (ISL) Program was funded by the University of Michigan Office of theProvost, the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, and the College of Engineering.1. Borrego, M., Karlin, J., McNair, L. D., & Beddoes, K. (2013). Team effectiveness theory from Industrial and Organizational Psychology applied to engineering student project teams: A research review. Journal of Engineering Education, 102, 472-512.2. Davis, D., Trevisan, M., Gerlick, R., Davis, H., McCormack, J., Beyerlein, S., … Brackin, P. (2010). Assessing team member citizenship in capstone engineering design courses. International Journal of Engineering Education, 26(4), 771-783.3. Schultz, T. (1998). Practical problems in organizing students
friends, so we mostly had task division. What he did—he wasn’t calling me or they were just doing it and when I was asking he said, “Okay, don’t worry. We just done it. We went to the lab and we just finished it.” I got so mad and I went to the professor and said, “He doesn’t—just share those projects, because I have to get a grade, too.” He said, “You chose him as a leader, so you have to go take care of it.” I sent him a few e-mails and asked him, “Okay, you should just give me more tasks, you have to just make—” I don’t know; he just never did. For the second semester of capstone I got B, because our professor said, “I didn’t see you doing those electrical engineering things,” and I said
projects with communities in Puerto Rico since 2002. Eight undergraduate electrical engineering students participated in three different capstone projects related to improving water service in rural communities, in particular improving the electrical system for the pump that takes water from the community well. In one of the projects, the team included students from Electrical, Mechanical, and Civil Engineering, as well as Surveying and Biology students, and students from Purdue University15. Acting as Faculty mentor in the UICD broadened the policy horizon of Dr. O’Neill and was an invaluable capacity building experience that helped in future policy work. Another example of a community-based project is the photovoltaic (PV) laboratory at Casa
) Engineering Project Management (3 credits) International Business Cultures in Engineering and Technology (3 credits) Engineering Leadership Capstone (3 Credits) Intergroup Dialogue (1 credit) Elective (with advisor approval) Notes: Maximum of 6 credits may also be taken
, Center for Electromagnetics Research (CER), Northeastern University. Pub- lications/Papers: Reenergizing and Reengaging Students Interest through CAPSULE; A Novel and Evolu- tionary Method on Educating Teachers to Promote STEM Careers Jessica Chin, Abe Zeid, Claire Duggan, Sagar Kamarthi (IEEE ISEC 2011); and ”Implementing the Capstone Experience Concept for Teacher Professional Development” Jessica Chin, Abe Zeid, Claire Duggan, Sagar Kamarthi (ASEE 2011). Rel- evant Presentations: ”K-12 Partnerships” (Department of Homeland Security/Centers of Excellence An- nual Meeting 2009); ”Building and Sustaining K-12 Educational Partnerships” (NSF ERC 2007 - 2010 National Meetings); ”Research Experience for Teachers
Capstone Project (GD426), had a 1-to-1 mapping between activitiesand gradebook entries. It was therefore expected that manual and automated outcomemeasurements would match exactly. The second class, Sophomore Software Engineering Lab II(CS204L), is similar to GD426 except that one Moodle Quiz activity on software engineeringdesign patterns was administered. However, since this quiz measured only a single courseoutcome, it was also expected to have identical manual and automated assessments.Two instructional courses were also selected for dual evaluation. The first was 3D GameProgramming (CS409). The second was Artificial Intelligence (CS411). These courses hadtraditional homework assignments that generally evaluated one outcome. However, they
students16-18, capstone students15, experts16,19, and elementary teachers19.The two streamlined methods are compared to actual behaviors observed as studentscomplete a design project. Students were given a weeklong design project to complete in ateam. The project focused on the problem of their professor needing to accommodate morestudents in his office during office hours. The exact wording of the prompt used in this study isincluded in the appendix.Whether the team engaged in problem formulation activities was measured simply by observingthe number of teams that came to his office to observe the environment for which they weredesigning (i.e., his office) or ask a key user (i.e., the professor) questions about his needs andwants. All other problem
managed numerous international construction projects in different countries, and conducted many research projects funded by federal, state/provincial governments and industries. He is an international training expert hired by the World Bank Group, Washington DC, and a visiting professor at several uni- versities. He is the sole author of the new book, entitled ”The Utilization of Slag in Civil Infrastructure Construction”, published by Elsevier in 2016.Prof. John St James Stewart Buckeridge, RMIT University John Buckeridge, PhD, CP (Env) FGS is Professor of Natural Resources Engineering at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, where he maintains wide international involvement in the environment and ethics. He is on
being exposed to substantial professional technicalities. Keystone coursescombine theory with hands-on design project courses. Capstone courses aim to allow studentsto integrate professional knowledge in design practices, assessing students’ overall learningresults across their college career. Futures thinking can be integrated in all three clusters ofcourses, though the levels of futures thinking ought to be adjusted according to students’maturity and levels of professional knowledge in civil engineering. By introducingfundamental concepts and methods in Futures Studies, the curricular experiment aims to helpstudents develop comprehensive and long-term thinking skills while being first exposed tothe civil engineering curriculum. To begin
Paper ID #15956Towards a Multidisciplinary Teamwork Training Series for UndergraduateEngineering Students: Development and Assessment of Two First-year Work-shopsDr. Ada Hurst, University of Waterloo Ada Hurst is a Lecturer in the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo. She has taught and coordinated the capstone design project course for the Management Engineering program since 2011. She also teaches courses in organizational theory, technology, and behaviour. She received her Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering and Master of Applied Science and PhD in Management Sciences, all
approach includes three cohortsof graduates who are running their own companies, are working as key team members in start-ups, are innovating in more established companies and are working at organizations that providesupport to entrepreneurs. This impact of this dedicated approach has also received nationalrecognition for its role in talent development by the University Economic DevelopmentAssociation (UEDA).Building a new Master's of Engineering in Technical EntrepreneurshipLehigh University, a private research university located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania has anational reputation in engineering, as well as entrepreneurship. Looking back almost twodecades, the undergraduate Integrated Product Development (IPD) capstone course sequence inthe P.C
senior design capstone course and a translational course following senior design. To promote biomedical/bioengineering, Marcia works with Women in Engineering to offer outreach activities and is engaged at the national level as Executive Director of the biomedical engineering honor society, Alpha Eta Mu Beta.Prof. Rohit Bhargava, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Rohit Bhargava is Bliss Faculty Scholar of Engineering and Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a faculty member with affiliations in several departments across campus (Pri- mary – Bioengineering: Affiliated - Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Science and En- gineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
the CommunityCollege system for lower division courses.All campuses will develop a capstone which will comprise the design/development of a solutionfor a specific problem by a team of students from a variety of disciplines working together. Forexample, this could be a solution for a problem in the developing world which has the capacity toinclude many elements of liberal arts, humanities and social sciences such as historical context,anthropology, geopolitics, economics, sustainability, environment, politics and political structureand a complete understanding of the society’s culture and ethics. Engineering solutions are butone piece of the project solution, and students will work in teams with others from differentdisciplines.The minor will
Director for Finance and Administration, Center for Electromagnetics Research (CER), Northeastern University. Pub- lications/Papers: Reenergizing and Reengaging Students Interest through CAPSULE; A Novel and Evolu- tionary Method on Educating Teachers to Promote STEM Careers Jessica Chin, Abe Zeid, Claire Duggan, Sagar Kamarthi (IEEE ISEC 2011); and ”Implementing the Capstone Experience Concept for Teacher Professional Development” Jessica Chin, Abe Zeid, Claire Duggan, Sagar Kamarthi (ASEE 2011). Rel- evant Presentations: ”K-12 Partnerships” (Department of Homeland Security/Centers of Excellence An- nual Meeting 2009); ”Building and Sustaining K-12 Educational Partnerships” (NSF ERC 2007 - 2010 National Meetings