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Design Through the Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joseph Beaman; Philip Schmidt

to tangible objects and systems; (2) tostrengthen our Department’s connections with its industrial stakeholders by actively involvingthem in the development and delivery of curriculum content; (3) to provide our students with abroad range of team-based experiences which will better prepare them for growth and leadershipin the corporate and professional world.PROCEED was formally initiated in the fall of 2000. Overall curriculum goals were outlined and13 pilot projects were initiated by the ME faculty. These projects cover the entire range of thecurriculum, from the freshman introduction-to-ME course through the senior capstone designcourse. They include a number of reforms, including, among others, development of new labswhich are closely

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Student Learning and Research

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mohamad Ahmadian

Session 2150 Enhancing Students’ Problem-Solving Techniques Through a Special Project Course Mohamad H. Ahmadian Eastern New Mexico UniversityAbstractThe EET program at Eastern New Mexico University is a four-year program serving studentscoming from regional high schools, two-year community colleges, and two-year technicalschools. The course Special Project is a senior level capstone course. Students are required todo two projects. In each project a marketable prototype of the design must be produced.Students enhance their knowledge of

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Doherty; Gerald Gannod

­ Copyright c 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationwith the latest in research and industrial practices 1 . The concentration track emphasizes funda-mental issues such as the balance between hardware and software and the respective trade-offs ofbuilding embedded systems. Our curricular project spans the entire spectrum of activities related to the design and deliveryof educational and research efforts and is characterized by three main innovative components: 1) anew industry-university collaborative model for integrating basic and applied research into a degreeprogram4 , 2) creation and delivery of state-of-the-art course content and appropriate laboratories,and 3) creation of capstone projects that are implemented through internships

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Krogmeier; Mustafa Kamasak; Maribel Figuera; Luis Torres; Jan Allebach; George Chiu; Edward Delp; Charles Bouman; Catherine Rosenberg; Lynne Slivovsky

Corporate Roundtable of the American Society for Engineering Education. Available from the American Association of Engineering Education.5. Oakes, William C., Coyle, Edward J., Fortek, Richard, Gray, Jeffery, Jamieson, Leah H., Watia, Jennifer, and Wukasch, Ronald. EPICS: Experiencing Engineering Design Through Community Service Projects. Proceedings of 2000 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO, June 2000.6. Ruane, Michael, "SPECTRE - An Extended Interdisciplinary Senior Design Problem", Proceedings, ASEE Annual Conference, Session 2625, Charlotte, NC, June 1999.7. Joseph, J., "Coordinating Diverse Set of Capstone Design Experiments", Proceedings, Frontiers in Education

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Teaching Design with a Twist

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sohail Anwar; Eric Granlund

several different courses.Engineering Design and Graphics 100 (ED&G 100) is an introduction to engineeringdesign course for all freshman baccalaureate engineering students at the Altoona Collegeof the Pennsylvania State University. In this three credit-hour course, engineering designprocess is taught through team oriented design projects supported by communicationskills: graphical and written. Implementation of project-based learning in ED&G 100course is achieved by assigning a comprehensive project designed to encompass all thefundamental engineering principles covered in the course and to complement the projectsconducted in the associated design laboratory. The capstone project requires students todesign a product to be mass produced

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Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Craig Gunn

8.23.5 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education ME – 471 Machine Design II ME 481 – Senior Capstone Design Design Project Documentation: Problem Definition, Progress report, Formal Design Reports Project Report (1 @ 35- 200 pages) Detailed Tools: C Programming, Excel, Matlab, WWW description of design approach, results, and conclusions, with supporting documentation

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Experienced-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

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Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

Session 3515 Client-Based Projects for Every Senior – A Mark of Excellence for Any Program Ronald W. Welch, Allen C. Estes United States Military AcademyAbstractThis paper describes a unique senior project capstone course used successfully by the ABET-Accredited Civil Engineering Program at the United States Military Academy (USMA) to greatlyenhance the academic program. The three general project classifications available within thissenior project course are service-based (i.e., USMA, the Army, local community), competition-based (i.e., steel

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Timothy Wheeler

, J.D., Wheeler, T.F., Croskey, C.L., Meisel, D.M. (1999). SPIRIT: Student Projects Involving RocketInvestigation Techniques, ESA SP-43713 Wheeler, T. (2003). SPIRIT III: International Collaboration in an Undergraduate Research Program. Submittedto Schreyer National Conference: Innovations in International EducationTIMOTHY F. WHEELER is a Research Assistant in the Penn State University Department of ElectricalEngineering. Besides his work with the SPIRIT Projects, he teaches Senior Capstone “Sponsored Projects”sections. He also builds analog hardware for sounding rocket research probes of the mesosphere. Page 8.1025.8Proceedings of

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ron Earley; Dave Lennig; Dave Campbell; Suguna Bommaraju

one of the projects forsenior design capstone course. Miami University started to participate in the RoboticsCompetition through the senior design course with Northwest High School (2001 and 2002), andLakota East High School (2003).FIRST, a nonprofit organization founded in 1989 by inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen6,inspires students to consider careers in engineering, technology, and science. The aim is to showstudents not only that the technological fields hold many varied opportunities for success and areaccessible and rewarding, but also that the basic concepts of science, math, engineering, andinvention are exciting and interesting.Learning to plan and implement the entire design process can take a long time, but it is the

Conference Session

Web Systems and Web Services

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2003 Annual Conference

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Leonid Preiser

Technology and Information Systems, La Jolla, CA-based NationalUniversity through coordination and analysis of more than fifty capstone Master’s Researchprojects in E-Business.All the projects have been divided into the four major categories lining up with four respectiveInteracting Project Layers: Business IPL, Applications IPL, Networking IPL, and EngineeringIPL. It should be noted that, in general, any E-Business project would include elements from allIPL domains; however, within each of those major categories their respective features woulddominate the project scope in comparison with the ones from three other IPLs.For each category of E-Business projects, validation assessment included: a) proposed project-specific outcomes, b) proposed

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Partnerships in IE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joan Burtner

Session 3657 Industrial-Related Projects in the Upper-Level Industrial Engineering Curriculum at Mercer University Joan Burtner, Shelia Barnett, Ramachandran Radharamanan and Scott Schultz School of Engineering, Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207AbstractIndustrial-related projects are spread throughout the industrial engineering curriculum at MercerUniversity. Beginning with the introduction to industrial engineering course, and continuingthrough to the senior design course sequence, students enrolled in Mercer's industrial

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rex Ramsier; H Michael Cheung; Edward Evans; Francis Broadway; Helen Qammar

calculation-intensive engineering courses,particularly lower-level engineering-science type courses, promote working in groups and whilethis collaborative-learning process leads to a higher retention of concepts, it is not effective forteaching teamwork. In fact, over-dependence on group work may undermine the learning ofeffective teaming skills in capstone design courses, because the cost of learning new skills(Atherton, 1999) (i.e. changing their ways) may inhibit or discourage the learning of essentialteaming skills. The critical factors for a successful project are that the students understand what Page 8.577.2an effective team is and how it

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Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Michael Kelley; Mark Talbot; Jeffrey Starke; Michael Butkus

Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationAbstractThe complete design process includes identifying a need or problem, recognizing constraints,identifying and developing courses of action, testing potential courses of action, selectingoptimum courses of action, preparing the documents required for the design, managing the overallprocess, communicating the design, construction and testing. By linking design projects in ourintroductory physicochemical treatment processes course (taken by second semester juniors) andour senior capstone design course (taken by second semester

Conference Session

Real-World Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jerome Tapper; Walter Buchanan

” students enjoy being treated as engineers. They are even more self-fulfilled, just as graduate engineers are, when their designs “actually” work.Industrial Control Systems is a fascinating field with a great deal of potential. Through industrypartnerships and intervention, today’s engineering technology students can garner a great deal ofself-fulfillment though Senior or Capstone projects such as this. Giving students the opportunityto work on “real-life” projects goes a long way toward creating a “real” engineer. Realism in theclassroom is a must if we as engineering educators are to help ‘bring good things to life.”Bibliography1 Tapper, Jerome, “Building Industry Partnerships, The Key to Creating State-of-the-Art Laboratories,” Proceedings of

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven Beyerlein; Michael Klein; Matt Walker; Kevin Organ; Dan Gerbus

Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationCreating Elevating GoalsThe notion of creating a clear and concise goal is not new. However, a goal can be establishedthat clearly identifies the objectives of a project, but if the team members do not find that goalworthwhile then individual commitment and focus can be compromised. In other words, not onlymust a goal be clarified, but also the members of that team must all contain the belief that the goalembodies a valuable and important result.A central role of IEW members is to provide guidance to the seniors design teams enrolled inCapstone Design. Those involved in the UI Capstone Design process must clearly identify thegoals of

Conference Session

Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

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Marlee Walton

Guide, facultyworkshops on effective teaching of communication within the CCE curriculum, and the reviewand modification of several courses and assignments.Introduction:The new curriculum consists of a series of twelve integrated courses beginning in the freshmanyear and ending in the senior year. Some of these courses cover topics that were included in theprevious Civil Engineering (CE) curriculum, such as: § Civil Engineering Projects § Engineering Problems with Computational Laboratory § Graphics for Civil Engineering § Civil Engineering Capstone DesignHowever, the new curriculum places a strong emphasis on the following professional practiceskills: § Leadership Skills § Team Processes in CE Practice § Interpersonal

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Bret Van Poppel; Blace Albert; Daisie Boettner

programs or by integrating engineering program design sequences (thislatter option is discussed below, Integrated, Multidisciplinary Design Sequence). Theseopportunities would allow students to improve their abilities to work together on multidisciplinaryprojects. This is a very important skill in engineering practice and in the Army. The currentprogram attempts to groom this skill during cadets’ senior year capstone design project.However, students often have limited opportunity to work with others outside of their discipline.Too often students try to divide project tasks into very distinct parts as opposed to bringing theirdiverse skills together to synergistically design the best product. The reason this happens is thattheir compartmentalized

Conference Session

Integrating HSS into the Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Dave Hergert; Ron Earley; Suguna Bommaraju

designcourse is embedded with these attributes so that the student graduates with a well-roundededucation.This paper describes how the engineering technology capstone course (senior design project) atMiami University has been structured to facilitate Liberal education council’s guidelines. The fourcomponents of liberal education are explained in this paper and a discussion of how each of theseattributes is enhanced in the course is presented. For example, the capstone course offers a uniqueopportunity to learn about ethics (understanding contexts attribute). Because the department doesnot have a separate ethics course, a guest speaker lecture on ethics is arranged in the senior designcourse. Students apply this concept to a hypothetical scenario

Conference Session

Design Through the Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Keat; Michael Larson

designexperience, (2) the nature of the senior capstone experience, (3) the level of integration ofcomputer-aided design software in courses and (4) the degree to which hands-on projects areemployed.IntroductionThe current state of mechanical engineering design education is the product of a number offactors. ABET requirements, arising in part from perceptions of the needs of industry, havecertainly played a role. Widespread changes in higher education (e.g. economic forces,demographics, new computing tools) have also affected how design education is delivered. Tohelp quantify discussions concerning adequacy of contemporary design education in light ofindustry’s needs and academia’s constraints, we have undertaken this national survey.A baseline

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Keat; Michael Larson

designexperience, (2) the nature of the senior capstone experience, (3) the level of integration ofcomputer-aided design software in courses and (4) the degree to which hands-on projects areemployed.IntroductionThe current state of mechanical engineering design education is the product of a number offactors. ABET requirements, arising in part from perceptions of the needs of industry, havecertainly played a role. Widespread changes in higher education (e.g. economic forces,demographics, new computing tools) have also affected how design education is delivered. Tohelp quantify discussions concerning adequacy of contemporary design education in light ofindustry’s needs and academia’s constraints, we have undertaken this national survey.A baseline

Conference Session

Partnerships in IE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jon Marvel

program which is open not only to students which have an undergraduate degree inengineering but also for students who have an undergraduate technology or related physicalscience degree. This particular degree option was developed to meet the technical andprofessional development needs of practicing engineers. The M.S. program in ManufacturingOperations is a 33-semester hour program that includes a professional practice component, aseries of courses in manufacturing operations, a capstone Masters Project, and approved graduate Page 8.943.1elective courses. The minimum academic preparation required for entry into the program includes

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sang Ha Lee; Stefani A. Bjorklund; John Wise; Thomas Litzinger

-directed learning, and therefore inSDLRS score, students taking the capstone courses in Mechanical and Electrical Engineeringwere also asked to take the SDLRS. To minimize the disruption of the normal flow of theseclasses, the instrument was provided on-line, and the students were sent an email from theirinstructors asking them to complete the instrument. The students received the request to take thepre-test in the third week of class after their project teams were formed.Of the 81 Mechanical Engineering students enrolled in the capstone course, 36 completed the pre-test. The Mechanical Engineering students can choose between capstone courses that emphasizemechanical or thermal systems. Typically students prefer the mechanical systems course by 3

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian West

PowerPoint, and the technical reports. This is often referred to as they are given enough rope to hang themselvesThis class was designed to be Step 1 to the Capstone course, Senior Project. The projectmanagement skills, interpersonal skills, and troubleshooting techniques which were taught in thisclass, and the two useful software packages that this class utilized, proved very useful duringSenior Project.Step 2 to the Capstone course, Senior Project, was Advanced Electronic Circuits. In AdvancedElectronic Circuits, students split into teams. Each student served on two teams, with twodifferent people – on one team the student was a leader, and on the other team, an assistant. Eachteam was assigned a project, with a written report and oral

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Vijay Vaidyanathan; Preeti Nagarajan; Roman Stemprok

data acquisition in real-time.8) Prepare class presentations that are well researched, grammatically correct and which interpretprinted material relevant to instrumentation design.It was decided to enhance the course with introduction of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)principles. In addition to the existing laboratory exercises that fulfill the objectives of the course, itwas decided to introduce a comprehensive project that would enable the students to apply PLMprinciples to their academic investigations. The application of PLM principles in various phases ofthe project would enable the instructor to simulate an industry environment in the classroom. Forthis reason, it was decided to make the instrumentation course, a capstone course for

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gordon Silverman

Entrepreneurial Engineering. [3,4] Such programs include several“entrepreneurial” goals: readiness for professional opportunities in growth-orientedenvironments or self-employment, develop enhanced communication skills, understand soundmarketing and financial plans, preparation for management and team leadership positions.Such curricula severely impact the traditional engineering programs and are not well suited tomany, modestly-sized, institutions that must try to prepare students for professional opportunitiesas either project engineers, traditional research and design engineers, or for advanced study (i.e.,Ph.D.).II. The RFP Approach to Capstone DesignWith the trends in “entrepreneurial” engineering gleaned from the Consultor recommendations

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven Howell; Pat Shamamy; Feierfeil Greg; Chris Reidel; Tarek Rizk; Lisa Anneberg

Tech’sengineering program while maintaining the same credit hour requirements for a B.Sc degree.This is accomplished by redefining some technical electives and restructuring the traditionalengineering capstone project sequence as a student enterprise.Table 1: Entrepreneurial Program at Lawrence Technological University Fall Semester Spring Semester Credit CreditYear 1Year 2 Technical & Professional Finance for engineers Communication 3 credits 1 credit Marketing for Engineers Engineering Enterprise 1 credit 1 creditYear 3 Business

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Trends in Biological & Agricultural Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ron Lacey; Ann Kenimer

Session 2003-1240 Teaming Freshmen with Seniors in Design Ann Kenimer, Ronald Lacey Associate Professors, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M UniversityIntroductionThe Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Texas A&M University offersdesign-focused courses for freshman and senior engineering students. The senior-level coursesconstitute the curriculum’s capstone design experience. Seniors work in teams of four to five on adesign project suggested by industry clients. Many of these same projects are used in the freshman

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Leah Jamieson; Lynne Slivovsky; William Oakes

Session 2525 Evaluating Multidisciplinary Design Teams Lynne Slivovsky, William Oakes, Leah Jamieson Purdue UniversityAbstract Many program look for ways to simulate “real” design experiences. At PurdueUniversity, the EPICS - Engineering Projects in Community Service – program does thisthrough long-term team projects that solve technology-based problems for local communityservice organizations. The program currently has 24 project teams with approximately 450students participating during the 2002 academic year. Each EPICS project team consists of tento 20 students, a local

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Norb Delatte

). Page 8.400.7Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 7: The faculty workshop pageThe workshop outline is as follows: • Introduction • Sources for case materials • Engineering Mechanics cases • Structural Engineering cases • Other CE courses • Ethics, Professional Issues, and Capstone Design • Forensic engineering courses • Group discussion and brainstormingSeveral colleagues from the ASCE TCFE Education Committee – Kevin Rens, PaulBosela, Ken Carper, and Oswald Rendon-Herrero – will assist in the workshop asinstructors.Future ActivitiesThis is a “proof-of-concept” project

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Assessment in BME Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gassert

.2This was also the practice at MSOE and remains the practice for all engineering programs atMSOE except for BE. The BE faculty concluded that design cannot be taught in just one year.Learning design takes practice and time. As a result, in 1992, the MSOE faculty introduced a BEcurriculum that included a four-year capstone project.3 The BE faculty believe that the four-year design process is important for two reasons.First it gave students time to learn and understand the importance of the design process.Secondly, it provides a valuable assessment tool whereby the BE faculty can assess studentlearning not only for design but also for other curriculum outcomes.3 The roll of the capstonedesign course for assessment and continuous quality