Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Design I

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Paul Harvie, United States Military Academy; Tanya Thais Estes, United States Military Academy; Lisa Shay, United States Military Academy

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Know Your Role! Designing Faculty and External Stakeholder Roles in a Multidisciplinary Capstone CourseAbstractThis paper describes our development of novel faculty roles and our method for the planning andexecution of projects in our year-long, multidisciplinary capstone experience. Well-defined rolespermit management of increasingly complex multidisciplinary and multidepartment projects,prevent duplication of effort, and help ensure an enriching and rewarding student experience.These roles have enabled us to offer an unprecedented variety and scope of projects with anaverage of

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Sustainability in Civil Engineering Education: Service Learning, Capstone Integration, Student Affect and Rating Systems

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Norb Delatte P.E., Oklahoma State University; Tricia Heather Hatley, Freese and Nichols, Inc

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Civil Engineering

curriculummust prepare graduates to… include principles of sustainability in design...” 8Implementation into Capstone Design ProjectsWhile the Civil Engineering Program Criteria do not explicitly require that sustainability beaddressed within the capstone design project, that is usually the most logical place to include it.Further information is provided in the ASCE Commentary on the Program Criteria 9.As an example, Sattler et al. developed a multidisciplinary capstone course with NationalScience Foundation (NSF) funding support focusing on sustainability. Senior students from civiland industrial engineering participated, designing a biodiesel refinery using vegetable oil wastefrom campus food service. This was the culmination of a series of prior

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Design I

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Breanna M. W. Bailey, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

, however, Table 3 clearly illustrates the tendency for students in the samemajor to cluster together even though they were in a multidisciplinary setting. This tendencywas a significant challenge throughout the JESS program. Four of the nine teams in the senior-design cohorts contained students from only one major, but the 2016-2017 cohort requiresadditional explanation to be completely understood.A capstone project for architectural engineering (AE) majors predicates the design of a building,as AE students specialize in the various aspects of building design. AE programs are generallyconsidered multidisciplinary as they encompass structural engineering, electrical engineering,mechanical engineering, and construction management components; as such

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Capstone Design Practices

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kris Jaeger-Helton, Northeastern University; Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University; Hugh L. McManus, Northeastern University

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Design in Engineering Education

Team, a select group of teaching faculty expressly devoted to the first-year Engineering Program at NU. In addition, she serves as a Faculty Advisor for Senior Capstone Design and graduate-level Challenge Projects in Northeastern’s Gordon Engineering Leadership Program. Dr. Jaeger-Helton has been the recipient of over 15 awards in engineering education for both teaching and mentoring and has been involved in several engineering educational research initiatives through ASEE and beyond.Dr. Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University Dr. Smyser is an Associate Teaching Professor and the Lab Director of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. Her research interests include Capstone Design and Lab Pedagogy.Prof. Hugh L

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Sustainability in Civil Engineering Education: Service Learning, Capstone Integration, Student Affect and Rating Systems

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leslie R. Brunell P.E., Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science)

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Civil Engineering

, Hoboken, NJ 07030; e-mail: lbrunell@stevens.eduAbstractWhile completing their senior year Capstone Design project, Civil Engineering undergraduatestudents are required to evaluate engineering solutions to real world design problems. Studentswork with professional mentors to develop solutions to relevant real-world issues. They areencouraged to develop innovative designs which meet all regulatory standards and designobjectives. The Capstone coordinator works closely with the professional mentors to ensure thateach design project meets ABET criteria as well as the ASCE Body of Knowledge (BOK).Recent changes to ABET criteria, and proposed changes to the ASCE BOK both focus onsustainability. They emphasize the need for students to gain an

Conference Session

Best In DEED

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elisabeth Kames, Florida Institute of Technology ; Devanshi Shah, Florida Institute of Technology; McKenzie Carol Clark; Beshoy Morkos, Florida Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

Cornerstone Design, Senior Capstone Design,Engineering Education, Engineering Retention1. IntroductionEngineering curriculum at the university level typically culminates in a senior design capstonecourse. The goal of the senior capstone design course is to challenge the students with an exampleof a real-world project, preparing them for industry. University curriculum used to focus heavilyon design and design challenges, typical of industry level engineering. Due to increasing systemcomplexity, engineering curriculums were prompted to add more science and mathematics classesto help students understand needed tools and methods.1 However, over time this produced studentswith a decreasing understanding of the practical applications of engineering and

Conference Session

CEED Technical Session I: WIP: Experiential Learning Potpourri

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cyrus Habibi P.E., University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Lily Chang, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

Instrumentation (anElectrical Engineering course) and Software Maintenance and Reengineering from ComputerSciences and Software Engineering department collaborated on five Internet of Things (IoT)projects. The collaboration has revealed both challenges and positive outcomes. This paperdescribes the collaboration, the students’ feedback and lessons learned. 1. IntroductionEngineering projects have become complex in the 20th century and require multiple teams fromdifferent disciplines to work collaboratively to solve problems. Collaboration betweenmultidisciplinary teams has become a standard in industries; however, educational curricula havebeen slow to adapt. Although most engineering programs have a capstone design course as a partof their curricula

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Design in Engineering Education Division: Design Teams

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Behzad Beigpourian, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Frederick C. Berry, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Siqing Wei, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Design in Engineering Education

ratings.KeywordsCAPSTONE teams, CATME, Peer evaluation, psychological safety, conflict, cohesiveness,satisfactionIntroductionLike many disciplines, engineering programs use teams in some courses because theengineering curriculum prepares students to work on multidisciplinary teams [1]. Engineeringstudents usually take a capstone course in the last year of their studies. In capstone courses,instructors simulate real-world problems, often with assistance of external sponsors [2],match student teams with projects [2], [3], identify team leaders to increase teameffectiveness, assess teams during the projects, diagnose team dysfunctions, and help studentslearn to improve their work in teams [2]. Instructors also aim to develop the students’professional skills for

Conference Session

Best In DEED

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susannah Howe, Smith College; Robin Ott, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Cristian Hernandez; Jessica Deters, Virginia Tech; Chris Gewirtz, Virginia Tech; Francesca Giardine, Smith College; Anne Kary, Smith College

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

-institutional study of students’ transitions fromtheir capstone (senior) design experiences into engineering work [21-24]. The sections belowdescribe the sites, participants, data collection, and data analysis.Site DescriptionsThe research study involves four different universities: two large public comprehensiveuniversities (one in the mountain west and one in the mid-Atlantic), one small public technicaluniversity in the southeast, and one small private college in the northeast. Three have a year-longcapstone design program and one has a four-semester design sequence that spans the junior andsenior years. All focus heavily on industry-sponsored projects; three also include faculty-sponsored and national-competition projects. All emphasize

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 8

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathan John Washuta P.E., The Citadel; Patrick Bass, The Citadel

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

modules into a single course, it is hypothesizedthat not only are the benefits of each exercise combined, but the student learning from onemodule can be used to inform the activities of the other modules. Ideally, the complementaryroles that these learning modules play will encourage a deeper and more thorough interest in andunderstanding of engineering entrepreneurship than can be achieved with a single module alone.The present paper will discuss the implementation of these modules along with studentperception and self-assessment data from the 2018-19 academic year.Course SequenceSenior design projects in the Mechanical Engineering Department at The Citadel are created aspart of a two-semester senior capstone course sequence in which design

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 11

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edward H. Currie, Hofstra University; Kevin C. Craig, Hofstra University

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Mechanical Engineering

engineering capstone courses around the country will uncover considerabledifferences. Among the differences are:• The course is either a one-semester, three-credit course or a two-semester, four-credit to six- credit course.• The design project is either purely mechanical or is multidisciplinary, with sensor, actuator and micro-computer control.• The design project is industry-sponsored or is proposed by the student design team.• Funding ranges from industry financial support up to several thousand dollars, to $400 - $1000 per 4-person team funded by the mechanical engineering department.• The project can be virtual, i.e., a paper design and slide presentation are the end result, with or without a working virtual prototype. Or

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 17: Student Cognitive Development

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph A. Lyon, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Martin R. Okos, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #26064Work in Progress: Designing Modeling-based Learning Experiences Withina Capstone Engineering CourseMr. Joseph A. Lyon, Purdue University, West Lafayette Joseph A. Lyon is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education and a M.S. student in the School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University. He earned a B.S. in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from Purdue University. His research interests include models and modeling, computational thinking, and computation in engineering education.Dr. Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette Alejandra Magana is an Associate Professor in the

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Wayne Freeman P.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Ronald S. Adrezin, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Andrew Foley, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #27016Bilge Pumps as Introductory Mechanical Engineering Design ProjectsProf. Richard Wayne Freeman P.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy Prof Richard Freeman is an Assistant Professor at the United States Coast Guard Academy in Mechani- cal Engineering. He is course coordinator for Engineering Experimentation. He is currently working on projects and capstones involving CubeSats and ThinSats. Prof Freeman has previously taught at North- western University, Valparaiso University and Iowa State University. Prof Freeman can be reached at richard.w.freeman@uscga.edu.Prof. Ronald S. Adrezin, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aschalew Kassu, Alabama A&M University; Anup Sharma, Alabama A&M University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

question, no response is recorded under neutral,disagree and strongly disagree. Unlike group-project activities incorporated under some of theengineering curriculum, which is composed of students with the same major discipline andclassification and typically lasts a couple months or the formal senior capstone design projectswhich extend throughout a semester or two of the students’ senior year, the MAKERS prototypedevelopment team are composed of students from diverse background and classification workingtowards a specific goal. All students are required to actively participate and contribute to theproject, attend periodic meetings, and present the prototype development project at the jointannual STEM conference of all the participating

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ERM Technical Session 15: Perspectives on Engineering Careers and Workplaces

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Becka Morgan, Western Oregon University; Heidi J.C. Ellis, Western New England University; Gregory W Hislop, Drexel University

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Educational Research and Methods

work from the periphery to moreactive core participation. Student participation can also be viewed as a form of cognitiveapprenticeship [9] and fits easily with notions of active learning, and problem-based learning[19]. For HFOSS, the community can help provide a support system of experts with a variety ofbackgrounds [28]. In addition, [34] concludes that such collaboration can help reduce theimpact of gender stereotype. 2.1.2 HFOSS in Education. Open source software has been used as a basis for studentsoftware engineering learning since the late 1990’s [31]. A common approach is to utilize aFOSS project as the basis for a capstone project [3, 10]. One obvious way for students toparticipate in a FOSS project is via code contributions

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division Technical Session 6

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marc Poynter, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Swapnil Bansode; Tejesh Charles Dube, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Michael Golub, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Jing Zhang, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

extrusion) design and modeling (http://www.engr.iupui.edu/˜jz29/) c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Integration of SAE Student Competition with Project CourseAbstractIn the past, the project courses at our university do not have any metrics to measure their success in a real-worldenvironment. We recently merged a few capstone design teams with the Society of Automotive Engineers(SAE) student competitions. The outcome and benefit of the change are clear. The students are more motivatedand willing to adopt new technologies in their project courses. Through competitions, students learned how tocomplete the project in the context of system. The paper describes the technical details that the

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rustin G. Vogt, California State University Sacramento; Gareth W Figgess, California State University, Sacramento

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #26931Board 38: Experiential Learning Opportunities through Collaborative ProjectsDr. Rustin G Vogt, California State University Sacramento Rustin Vogt is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at California State University, Sacramento. Pro- fessor Vogt holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Materials Science Engineering. His teaching focus is on Materials Selection in Design and Sustainability, Manufacturing, Machine Design, and the capstone senior project course. Professor Vogt was the lead faculty on for the CSU Sacramento State entry into the 2016 SMUD Tiny House Competition and played a supporting

Conference Session

Energy Conversion and Conservation Division Technical Session 1

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jinmyun Jo, Virginia State University; Xiaoyu Zhang, Old Dominion University; Ali A. Ansari, Virginia State University; Pamela Leigh-Mack, Virginia State University; James Irvin Cooke Jr., Virginia State University

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Diversity

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

control system. Dr. Ansari is a professor of Computer Engineering at Virginia State University.Dr. Pamela Leigh-Mack, Virginia State UniversityDr. James Irvin Cooke Jr., Virginia State University Director of Assessment and Senior Capstone Experiences Program Coordinator of Information Logistics program Department of Technology Virginia State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Extended Summer Research to Senior Design Project Jinmyun Jo1, Xiaoyu Zhang2, Pamela Leigh-Mack1, Ali Ansari1, James I. Cooke Jr1 Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA 238061 Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 235292IntroductionThere

Conference Session

ConstDiv Technical Session 1 - Capstone & Case Study

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tyler Jack Moravec, The University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Kelli R Kopocis, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Terry Lee Stentz, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Construction Engineering

seem to be a large gap in theknowledge that a finance student has versus what they will be required to know in order to enterinto the construction management field. However, there are many advantages that a financestudent can bring to a construction engineering and management program. Finance students aretaught to think critically and analyze every detail of a company in order to determine its valueboth in the short term and the long term. A construction project is managed much like acompany. By the end of the project, the goal is to build a product on schedule, on budget, and percontract. Finance students are trained to identify how and where profit can be made throughcritical analysis of financial statements. A large portion of the work a

Conference Session

ConstDiv Technical Session 1 - Capstone & Case Study

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fei Yang, Ohio State University; Michael Parke, Ohio State University; Fabian Hadipriono Tan P.E., Ohio State University; Adrian Hadipriono Tan; Shilun Hao, Ohio State University

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Construction Engineering

years experience in satellite based earth science research. He has been teaching first year engineering for the past nineteen years, with emphasis on 3-D computer aided design, computer programming, and project design and documentation.Prof. Fabian Hadipriono Tan P.E., Ohio State University Fabian Hadipriono Tan has worked in the areas of construction of infrastructures and buildings, failure assessment of buildings and bridges, construction accident investigations, forensic engineering, ancient buildings, ancient bridges, and the ancient history of science and engineering for over 40 years. The tools he uses include fault tree analysis, fuzzy logic, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality.Dr. Adrian Hadipriono Tan

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Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 11

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James A. Mynderse, Lawrence Technological University; Liping Liu, Lawrence Technological University; Andrew L. Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Robert W. Fletcher, Lawrence Technological University; Hamid Vejdani, Lawrence Technological University; Wuming Jing, Lawrence Technological University; Kingman E. Yee, Lawrence Technological University

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Mechanical Engineering

Entrepreneurial Mindset within a Three- Semester Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design Sequence Based on the SAE Collegiate Design SeriesAbstractMechanical engineering seniors at Lawrence Technological University (LTU) complete acapstone design project: either an SAE collegiate design series (CDS) competition or anindustry-sponsored project (ISP). Starting in 2015, the LTU CDS advisors worked together toredesign the five-credit three-semester sequence. The overall goals of the modifications were toimprove student design, project management and communication skills; integrate SAE CDSprojects into the actual class time; and increase faculty advisor involvement in the classroom. Inparallel with senior design modifications

Conference Session

Manufacturing Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tomas Oppenheim, California State University Maritime

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Manufacturing

used.The ability to practice GD&T in student engineering drawings, as well as machining assemblieswith GD&T specifications makes a more competent mechanical engineer, who knows how toreduce the total time and budget required to complete a satisfactory design project.IntroductionIn the Fall and Spring semester of their Senior year, the Mechanical Engineering students arerequired to design and fabricate a machine for their capstone projects. A popular machine for theSeniors to design and manufacture is a Stirling Engine. In the Fall semester, each design group isrequired, among others, to create their designs using a Computer Aided Design software andproduce engineering drawings for all of the parts they plan to manufacture. Prior to this

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 5

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles J. Robinson, Clarkson University

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Interdisciplinary BmE Capstone Design Course to Enable the Continued Supported Employment of Persons With DisabilityAbstract (Mission and Outcomes)A humanitarian need exists to help individuals with disability remain employed in a supportedwork setting. In partnership with a local not-for-profit service agency, our students carried out anentrepreneurial multi-year interdisciplinary biomedical engineering capstone project that innova-tively involved using commercial industrial electronics to make beverage container recyclingmore worker-friendly, flow-efficient and accountable. The project’s mission was to improve theefficiency of, and maximize the dollar return from, a beverage container recycling business,while taking into account

Conference Session

Faculty Development Medley

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lindy Hamilton Mayled, Arizona State University; Lydia Ross, Arizona State University; James Collofello, Arizona State University; Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; Keith D. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University; Brent James Sebold, Arizona State University; Sarah Hoyt, Arizona State University

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Faculty Development Constituent Committee

Engineering Ira A. Fulton Schools of EngineeringProf. 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

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Capstone Design Practices

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Giselle Guanes Melgarejo, Ohio State University; Genevieve Thanh; Emily Dringenberg, Ohio State University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

; engineering design decisions are consequential for the design and how it performsupon implementation. To use a spoon, the person may need to like the color; and the material ofthe blade must be strong enough for an endurance task. Because design decisions areconsequential, undergraduate engineering programs have a responsibility to prepare students asdecision makers.Capstone design courses allow undergraduate engineering students to experience open-endeddesign projects before starting their professional careers. As such, capstone serves as anopportunity to develop students’ ability to make decisions in an ill-structured setting. Typically,explicit instruction related to decision making includes an introduction to rationalistic tools, suchas decision

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 2

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Inci Ruzybayev, York College of Pennsylvania; Benjamin J. Zile; Scott F. Kiefer, York College of Pennsylvania; Taylor Schmidt

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Engineering Physics and Physics

certainly beneficial to student development, the types of projectsassigned are usually solved using trial and error methods and rarely require the application of theconcepts the students are learning in their math and science courses. These projects can solidifythe idea students hold that math and science background is not required for design work and thatthe courses are merely intended to “weed out” students. Furthermore, it can cause students tobecome disillusioned with the engineering curriculum. This paper suggests that physics classes are a good place to apply the basic skills beingcovered in the course to real-life situations. Specifically, it explains how to take a large-scaledesign problem actually encountered in a capstone course

Conference Session

Incorporating the Community into the Classroom

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ann D. Christy P.E., Ohio State University; Tara Gupte Wilson, Ohio State University; Owen J. Meehl, Ohio State University

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering

, both abbreviated as PBL, originatedin medical education (Burrows and Tamblyn, 1980) but found clear application in engineeringeducation, especially engineering design (Dym et al., 2005). Today PBL is considered one of thehigh impact practices of teaching and learning across all disciplines (Kuh, 2008). Manyundergraduate biological and agricultural engineering (BAE) programs feature service learningand project-based PBL opportunities, most frequently in first-year (cornerstone) and senior(capstone) design courses (Lima, 2013; Lima and Oakes, 2013). However, given the centrality ofdesign in engineering practice and the challenge students encounter in trying to master design, itis valuable to scaffold the learning of these skills by including

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Design I

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie M. Gillespie, Arizona State University; Mark Vincent Huerta, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Jared Joseph Schoepf, Arizona State University; Joshua Loughman, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Newswander identified 5 themes of assessing multidisciplinary work: disciplinarygrounding, integration, teamwork, communication and translation across discipline boundaries,and critical awareness [6]. Multiple studies have explored the aspects of multidisciplinary teamoutcomes for capstone design teams [7,8]. Other studies have explored the possibility ofmultidisciplinary teams in a variety of other courses including having a multidisciplinary groupof faculty teach general engineering classes during the first-two years of study [4].Since service-learning projects often require both engineering and non-engineering knowledgefor successful deployment, having students from a variety of backgrounds, including non-engineering, can be valuable. While

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 9

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gloria Guohua Ma, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Xiaobin Le P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering

instead of just seeing them onpaper.”, “got experience of turning a learning concept to a physical working model”.Some students (20%) complained that the project added burdens to their already heavy loaded semester:capstone design research and other courses with multiple lengthy reports, as well as part-time jobs. InSpring semester, time was critical since most students put high priority on their capstone design research.The project was typically assigned 4~5 weeks before the final exam. It could be assigned earlier so thatthe students would have more time to think and be more prepared.Overall, survey results show the project was implemented successfully. The objective of the project wasmet. Students gained lots of hands-on experience about

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joshua Gargac, University of Mount Union; Daniel John Hampu, University of Mount Union

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #26753The Toy Box Project: Connecting First-Year Engineering Students with En-trepreneurshipDr. Joshua Gargac, University of Mount Union Joshua Gargac is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Mount Union in Alliance, OH, where he advises the mechanical engineering senior capstone projects and SAE Baja team. In addition, Dr. Gargac teaches first-year engineering courses, computer-aided design, kinematics and dynamics of machinery, and manufacturing science. He received his BSME from Ohio Northern University and a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Notre Dame. Current