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Thomas Dobrowski

Session ETD 315 Utilizing Industry Professionals in a Senior Capstone Project Thomas J. Dobrowski, Purdue NorthwestAbstractStarting in the academic year of 2016, two regional campuses of Purdue University unified. Indoing so, degree programs that were the same on each campus had to align themselves to offeridentical courses to allow students to seamlessly move between the two campuses. In general,this did not pose much of a problem for the Construction Engineering and ManagementTechnology (CEMT) degree program as all but two of the courses in the degree program werealready being offered on both campuses.The one course

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Sean Tavares; Shawn Banker; Christopher LeBlanc; Jonathan Ferguson

Session ETD 545 Collaboration on Engineering Technology Capstone Projects with the UNH University Instrumentation Center T. Sean Tavares, Shawn C. Banker, Christopher D. LeBlanc, Jonathan Ferguson, University of New HampshireAbstractCollaboration with partners located in industry and at research centers has been the source ofmany high quality Engineering Technology senior capstone projects. A recent capstone projecthosted by the University of New Hampshire (UNH) University Instrumentation Center (UIC)was focused on improving the efficiency of the process involved in producing large scale 3Dprinted

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Charles Feldhaus; John Buckwalter; Elizabeth Wager

course is the OLS Senior Capstone Project, which represents the culmination of work forthe baccalaureate degree in Organizational Leadership and Supervision (OLS). The SeniorCapstone Project represents one of the final deliverables that a student will develop as an OLSmajor. As such, students are strongly encouraged to allocate sufficient time for editing,rewriting, and/or proofreading the final documents. Students are expected to both submit andpresent at a poster session, a professionally-developed, final research report that demonstratestheir seriousness of purpose as a senior-level, college-educated student of leadership.This capstone course is designed to be integrative in nature and will use overlap from previouscoursework and signature

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Joseph Morgan; Jay Porter

Session ETD 545 Issues Associated with Capstone Courses and Growing and Expanding Engineering Technology Programs Joseph Morgan and Jay Porter Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution, Texas A&M University, College Station, TXAbstractTen years ago, the Electronics Engineering Technology program at Texas A&M Universitytransformed their senior design course into a two-semester capstone design sequence basedaround a rigorous, real-world product design challenge. The projects undertaken by the studentswere almost all industry-sponsored

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Immanuel Edinbarough; Anabel Pineda-Briseño; Jesus Alberto Gonzalez-Rodriguez; Adriana Rios Santiago

, a more dynamicinvolvement can provide engineering students with an option to develop a broader understandingof working in international setting, and at the same time gain the skills to successfully interactthrough diverse cultures [3].As a bi-national region, we can consider the location as a privileged geographical area, suitableto promote and experience cross-cultural mobility. Therefore, cross-border collaborative learningthrough capstone engineering projects is developed and presented as a regional, cooperativesystem to generate collective settings for technology development in undergraduate appliedresearch for students on both sides of the Rio Grande Valley.Undergraduate Research in Capstone Projects as an Opportunity to Promote

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Jafar Al-Sharab

Session ETD 415 Implementation of Quality Enhancement Plant (QEP) through Experiential Learning at The Engineering Technology Department, Northwestern State University Jafar F. Al-Sharab Northwestern State UniversityAbstractThe capstone or senior design course is used by Engineering Technology at Northwestern StateUniversity (NSU) programs to provide students in their final year of training an opportunity tointegrate knowledge from coursework and other sources in order to provide a solution for a real-world-engineering problem

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Maher Shehadi

Session ETD 545 Experimental Investigation of Pipe Heating Enhancement using Different Number of Internal Fins Maher Shehadi, Ph.D. School of Engineering Technology, Purdue Polytechnic Institute Purdue UniversityAbstractThis paper presents an experimental comparison study done as a capstone project in the Schoolof Engineering Technology at Purdue University. The project objective was to compare theeffectiveness of multiple internal fins on heating water flowing inside pipes when subjected toconstant external heat flux. The

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Maher Shehadi

Session ETD 545 Building a Filtration and Control System for Auto-Parts Corrosion Oil Immersion System Maher Shehadi, Ph.D. School of Engineering Technology, Purdue Polytechnic Institute Purdue UniversityAbstractThe purpose of this capstone project was to design and build an immersion system that pumps arust preventative oil through a filtration system after being applied to protect automotive parts suchas camshafts. The system improves a pre-existing immersion system, used by an automotive partspackaging company, that has no

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Paul McPherson; Margaret Phillips; Kyle Reiter

industry be reiterated. Two such courses are MET 451, Quality for Manufacturingand the School of Engineering Technology senior capstone course. Although not a requiredcourse, students enrolled in MET 451 utilize an array of technical standards, including ASMEY14.43, Dimensioning and Tolerancing Principles for Gages and Fixtures, to support the designand manufacturing of fixtures for a part inspection project. In addition, students utilizeANSI/ASME Y14.5-2009 to help interpret a multitude of dimensions and tolerances onmechanical drawings. Students also learn about Quality Management standards, including ISO9001 and TS 16949, and the requirements that companies must adhere to in order to receivecertification. Finally, students must complete a

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Immanuel Edinbarough; Jesus Alberto Gonzalez-Rodriguez; Adriana Rios Santiago

programming aspect of CMM using the PC-DMS software is thoroughly covered. Theoutcome of the training program is to enable the students to fully operate the CMM withadherence to safety standards. Also, students should able to program the CMM using the PC-DMS software for inspecting a range of moderately complex industrial components.The students who have successfully completed the CMM training has the option to choose theirsenior design projects in the field of coordinate metrology and CMM.Senior Design Project on CMMThe senior design projects that surrounds the use of CMM reinforces the training that they havereceived on CMM and PC-DMS programming. One of the recent senior projects on CMM ispresented in the following sections.Development of

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Ryan Howe; Stanley Rader; Matthew Snyder

a temporary marina dock ramp, allowing the temporary bridge to be returned toits proper use. This cadet-led project required geotechnical, hydrologic, and structuralengineering analyses and design prior to construction of the bridge, as well as the application ofconstruction engineering and management principles and methods throughout the planning andconstruction process. The cadet team followed Forest Service design parameters, includingmaking the bridge both wide enough and strong enough to accommodate ATVs for search andrescue missions. The bridge was also designed to accommodate the approximately 30,000 annualhikers on the popular McCullough Gulch trail. Cadets designed and analyzed the bridge duringthe academic year and constructed the

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Maher Shehadi

Session ETD 545 Experimental and Analytical Comparison of Internally Finned Pipe with Unfinned Pipe for Heating Applications Maher Shehadi, Ph.D. School of Engineering Technology, Purdue Polytechnic Institute Purdue UniversityAbstractThis paper presents a capstone project that was done by two MET (Mechanical EngineeringTechnology) students during their senior year at Purdue Polytechnic, Kokomo. The projectobjective was to build an apparatus that would allow evaluation of pipes performance intransferring heat from an external heating source wrapped

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David Goodman

Session ETD 445 Industrial Collaboration to Develop an Energy Assessment Course Dr. David W. Goodman Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)AbstractA new graduate course is addressing the growing demand for employees that can solveenergy-related problems, assess mechanical and electrical energy systems, and make abusiness case for implementing energy-related improvements. The course stresses hands-onapplication by using USDOE software, touring local industries, and performing onsite energyassessment projects. The course was developed in

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Saeed Foroudastan; Carey Snowden

management. Students in this program learn business andengineering skills in the classroom, then apply them in the field through class projects and acomplex capstone internship, which takes the place of a traditional thesis. Thus, the EngineeringManagement program requires strong industry partnerships for the education and graduation ofits students.The MSPS Advisory Board, which consists of local industry leaders and program alumni, acts togrow and maintain these critical industry partnerships. The Advisory Board’s role is 1) toprovide the class-projects and internships required for the students’ successful careers and 2) toensure that the curricula stays leading-edge and covers the needs of regional employers. Byleveraging the experience and

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Elizabeth Dell; Anne Lucietto; Elaine Cooney; Liza Russell; Emily Schott

have proven successful include use of learning communities,first-year seminars, and capstone projects. All of these promote student interaction with facultyand their peers. 5 Outside of the classroom, strategies that promote retention of minority studentsinclude personnel dedicated to tracking persistence, undergraduate research opportunities,participation in internships, and access to minority focused organizations, such as the NationalSociety of Black Engineers. 5, 14Perceptions of racism and discrimination have been correlated to lower grade point averages andgraduation rates of Black engineering students. 15 Evidence of institutional awareness of theseissues and programs in place to promote a positive climate that supports diversity, can