Conference Session

Industry-Based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Rufe; Tracy Tillman; Bob Lahidji

not always obvious; however, the penalties of poor communicationare typically very obvious and very painful.Communication can be verbal and written in the form of emails, drawings, anddocumentation. In the capstone course the project manager and supervising facultymember communicate with the sponsor with the primary communication being betweenthe project manager and the sponsor. The project manager should forward or copy theiremails to the supervising faculty member. The great aspect of emails is that they can besaved easily, can transfer photographs readily, and are quick. Email is not alwayssufficient and verbal communication via phone calls or conference calls is necessary.Phone calls are difficult to arrange when the people involved have

Conference Session

K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

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Aaron Blicblau

Promotion of Final Year Capstone Projects Aaron S Blicblau School of Engineering and Science, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, AustraliaIntroductionIn many engineering courses around the world one of the key aspects required of the studentsis that they complete an independent project in their final year of studies. Project work is nowconsidered to be an important part of an engineer’s training4-6. Students enrolled in their finalyear of mechanical engineering at Swinburne University of Technology are required toundertake and complete a final year project (major capstone project). Students may select aproject from a list

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

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J. Darrell Gibson

Session 2625 Service-Learning in Capstone Design Projects: Emphasizing Reflection Patricia Brackin, J. Darrell Gibson Department of Mechanical Engineering Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractService-learning offers opportunities for students to help their community whiledemonstrating ABET EC 2000 criteria. This paper gives a brief introduction to servicelearning concepts and then focuses on methods to increase student reflectionIntroductionService learning projects are typically sponsored by a community partner and givestudents the opportunity to interact with

Conference Session

Capstone Course in Industrial Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

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Darnell Austin

Session 3250 Lessons Learned from Capstone Projects Darnell Austin California State University, Fresno and University of the PacificIntroduction Capstone or senior projects present students with an opportunity to learn from theexperience of putting their technology lessons in to practice. This paper reviews some of thetheories of learning from these experiential activities as well as provides some methods andexamples for working with the students in these activities.Picking the project One of the foremost educational theorists, John Dewey defined several ways of thinkingsuch as imagination, belief and stream of consciousness. He contended that learning

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2004 Annual Conference

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Glenn Blackwell

Session 2548 Sophomore Project/Capstone Course Glenn R. Blackwell ECET - Purdue University West Lafayette, IN blackwell@purdue.eduabstract:This paper describes a new project course in ECET at Purdue University. It is a course taken bystudents in their 4th semester of the 2+2 ECET program, and may be considered a capstonecourse for the AS degree. In it the students must work with a time plan, and must follow adesign guide that has them combine both analog and digital

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Fox

expected to do morework. Students begin on their capstone design project during the fall semester of their final year bytaking the course Senior Design A. A typical class meets in a laboratory-type room with thestudents at individual benches, equipped with laboratory measurement instruments and acomputer with an Internet connection. Each group electing to make the design project a teameffort share the same bench. The instructor lectures during the first 10 to 15 minutes on someimportant aspect of the engineering design process, such as brain-storming and developing ideas,researching designs and hardware sources, developing a task time table, establishing milestonesand checkpoints, and so forth. The balance of the class is an “open lab” period

Conference Session

ET Capstone Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci

program at the Technological Studies Department and to add fun andcreativity components to bring more student excitement and higher learning [1]. It will alsocomplement a pure teaching department with a research component through the involvement ofstate-of-the-art technologies. Animatronics was chosen as the main area of focus. Animatronicsis the art of bringing inanimate objects to life through computer, cable, remote, radio controlsand puppetry [2] as defined by Jim Henson. From a technical point of view, an animatronic is afigure that is animated by means of electromechanical or mechatronic devices. Its goal is toemulate an actual living being or a fictitious character to entertain. Animatronics will transformthe capstone projects from an

Conference Session

ET Capstone Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Everly

inductor. The variable capacitor should befully meshed providing maximum capacitance during calibration. A low cost ($18) high-precision, 1-30 MHz, Analog Devices AD9850 Direct Digital Synthesis (DDS) chip configuredas a radio frequency generator is available as a surface-mount kit [9]. Please note that for surfacemount soldering, Radio Shack 62/36/2 (0.015 inch diameter) silver-bearing solder is highlyrecommended. The serial port on of a computer is used to send a control word to the DDS chipto set the frequency.Comments from Student Project ReportsTo date four RF Communication Laboratory sections (48 short wave radio projects) have beentaught using the Capstone Electronic Design Experience as a central theme for the laboratory.The following

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Idowu

2004-558 A strategy for innovative capstone design projects Peter Idowu Pennsylvania State University - Harrisburg 777 W. Harrisburg Pike, Middletown, PA 17057AbstractThe capstone design course is used by many engineering programs to provide students in theirfinal year of training an opportunity to integrate knowledge from coursework and other sourcesin order to provide a solution for an engineering problem. The strategy for conducting thecourse, the process, implementation, and expectations vary between programs and disciplines.Often, there are

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramana Pidaparti

techniques andeffectively solve today’s complex design problems. In Spring 2003, senior design projectscompleted at the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI (Indiana UniversityPurdue University Indianapolis) illustrated the results of a harmonious merger of the artistic andtechnical talents of our students. This paper presents information on a unique capstone designproject that involved collaboration between the arts and engineering, and the impact on thequality of the final design. It is very likely that multidisciplinary design projects will beincreasingly developed and implemented in institutions of higher learning across the country asmore art and engineering collaborations lead to creative design projects and valuable

Conference Session

Experience with Experiential Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mary Beth Lakin; Gary Crossman

Session 2249 Utilizing Experiential Learning for Capstone Project Credit Gary Crossman, Vernon Lewis, Mary Beth Lakin Old Dominion UniversityI. Abstract The typical student at many (urban) universities works a part or full time job whileattending school and may already have several years of industrial experience. This experiencemay very well be applicable to courses in their engineering, engineering technology or othercurricula. In 1998, Old Dominion University established and implemented an assessmentprogram called Experiential Learning with the primary purpose of

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Dennis Silage

Session 1532 Reintroducing Amateur Radio In ECE Capstone Design Projects Dennis Silage Electrical and Computer Engineering College of Engineering, Temple UniversityAbstractPresented here from experience are the salient steps for the reintroduction of Amateur Radio intothe capstone design project in Electrical and Computer Engineering and diverse examples ofsuch projects. These steps include the involvement of the faculty supervisor, the establishmentof an Amateur Radio station as a communications laboratory sponsored by the department, asurvey

Conference Session

ET Capstone Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chong Chen

Session 3447 Radio-Controlled Robot Lawnmower Chong Chen and Jonathan Derr Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro, TN 37132Abstract This paper presents an engineering technology senior project: radio-controlled robotlawnmower. The lawnmower can go forward and reverse. It can also turn around. The speed ofthe lawnmower is comparable to a push lawnmower. This project involved use of the student’s knowledge acquired from many major courses,which included

Conference Session

ET Capstone Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Eydgahi; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

Session 3447Designing a Microprocessor Controlled Heater Fan for a Fireplace Mohammad Fotouhi, Ali Eydgahi, Robert McCulley University of Maryland Eastern Shore Princess Anne, MD 21853AbstractThis Paper describes the details of an undergraduate design project completed as part ofthe final senior design class for the Electrical Engineering Technology Program atUniversity of Maryland Eastern Shore. The objective of this project was to use a PIC16C622 microprocessor to control the speed of a fan depending on the temperaturesensed just below the mantel of a fireplace. The PIC 16C622 was

Conference Session

ET Capstone Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Subhash Bose; Immanuel Edinbarough

Session 3447A vision and robot based on-line monitoring of defects in Electronics Manufacturing – A collaborative effort in capstone project. Immanuel Edinbarough, Subhash BoseThe University of Texas at Brownsville/The University of Texas – Pan AmericanAbstractThis paper discusses the integration of an automated neural network-based visioninspection system with robots to detect and report IC lead defects on-line. The visionsystem consists of custom software that contains a neural network database for eachIC to be inspected on a PCB. The vision system uses gray scale images and a singlelayer neural network with three outputs based on defect

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Woodruff; Farhad Reza

Session 1793 INTRODUCING DESIGN-BUILD CONCEPTS INTO SENIOR CAPSTONE DESIGN PROJ ECTS Far had Reza and Shawn J . Woodr uff Ohio Nor ther n Univer sity, Ada, OH 45810 /Pr inceton Univer sity, Pr inceton, NJ 08544Abstr actTraditionally, there has been a widespread sense on the part of the construction industry of a lackof connection between design engineers and contractors. There have been numerous cases whereit has been discovered during the construction phase of a project that a proposed design is verydifficult and sometimes even

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikas Jain; Durward Sobek

Session 2425 Two Instruments for Assessing Design Outcomes of Capstone Projects Durward K. Sobek II, Vikas K. Jain Montana State UniversityAbstractA “good” design process is perhaps best defined by its output—good design processes producegood design outcomes. As part of an NSF-funded research effort to better understand studentdesign processes, we developed two assessment instruments to measure the “goodness” of adesign outcome. This paper describes the development and validation of the two instruments,presents the instruments and their

Conference Session

Capstone Course in Industrial Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Akbar Eslami

2004-2128 session# 3250 A capstone design project- Machine Vision System in Inspection Process Kenneth Joyner, Joshua Shipman, Benjamin Mott, Dana Harper, Edward Morris, Akbar Eslami ITT Technical Institute, Norfolk Campus/ Elizabeth City State UniversityAbstractThe purpose of this project is to design an automated inspection system that will identify, accept,or reject parts on a production line. The project simulates a major goal of industry—to monitordeviations in parts geometry. The project begins by integrating five components that worktogether as a system: a

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Forsberg

Session 1566 A Student-Centered Senior Capstone Project in Heat Exchanger Design Charles H. Forsberg Department of Engineering, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549OverviewHofstra University recently received a grant from the American Society of Heating,Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) for students to design and build a heatexchanger demonstration unit for the mechanical engineering laboratories. The grant wasawarded through ASHRAE’s Undergraduate Senior Project Grant Program. Senior mechanicalengineering students designed and built the heat exchanger unit as their

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Monte Tull; Gerald Crain

industry sponsored design in the course implementation.A. Introduction:The Capstone experience is an ideal opportunity for Seniors to apply their design skill and tolearn management skills with which to control the design1,2,3 . The learning experience has beenshown to be multiplied by exercising creative alternatives in a structured environment4,5 . TheSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Oklahoma (OU) usesa process to help transition their design perspective from an answer-driven arena to a creative,needs-based, project environment. Industry sponsorship of Capstone projects provides a uniqueopportunity for students to begin working under practicing engineers. We impose designmanagement processes that simulate

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sig Lillevik

Industry representatives very helpful Student’s first large-scope project in team environmentIndustry Representative Founder’s Day presentations comparable to a technical conferenceEvaluation Not sure how “hard” to push student team Design process very similar to real-lifeStudent comments range widely but, overall, they feel that the capstone design sequence is avaluable learning experience. For many, it is the first time they have taken on a significantproject and, as a result, it is the first time they have integrated the skills learned in their earliercourses and “put it all together.” Unfortunately, students report that senior design is a difficultclass because it is

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kraemer; Bijan Pashaie; David Probst

engineering flavor. Another lingering concern wasthat the Engineering Physics degree, as the only engineering program at Southeast, requiresabout 12 more credit hours than most other programs on campus, which might tend to reduce itscompetitiveness when recruiting majors. In order to address these concerns, we developed asenior capstone course that has been accepted into the University Studies Program, which isSoutheast’s liberal education program. It therefore counts both in the major and for the liberaleducation program, thus reducing the total number of hours required. The course requiresstudents from at least two departments on campus to work on a project requiring expertise fromboth disciplines. In Spring 2004, in collaboration with a faculty

Conference Session

TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Erik Bowman; Kenneth Siegenthaler

Session 3266 A Community Public Service Capstone Engineering Design Project: A Collapsible Ramp for an Electric Cart/Wheelchair Kenneth E. Siegenthaler and Erik C. Bowman Department of Astronautics United States Air Force AcademyAbstractA capstone engineering design and construction course, required for graduation at theUnited States Air Force Academy, has often involved community service projects. Onesuch project was the design and construction by students of a collapsible electriccart/wheelchair ramp for a

Conference Session

The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Rossi; Herbert Ingley; Erik Sander; Dow Whitney; Marc Hoit; R. Keith Stanfill

Session 1693 Integrating Entrepreneurial Projects into a SuccessfulMultidisciplinary Capstone Design Program at the University of Florida R. Keith Stanfill, Erik J. Sander, William J. Rossi, H. A. Ingley, E. Dow Whitney, Marc I. Hoit University of Florida Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering / University of Florida College of Engineering / University of Florida Warrington College of Business Administration / University of Florida Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering / University of Florida Department of Materials Science

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Greco

Session 1793 Designing a Computer to Play Nim: A Mini-Capstone Project in Digital Design I John Greco, Ph.D. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Lafayette College Easton, PA 18042AbstractThis paper describes a design project suitable for inclusion in an introductory course indigital circuit design. The project is the design and realization of a special-purposecomputer to play the game of Nim, an ancient game involving the removal of pieces fromstacks. Two players alternate turns, and each turn consists of removing any number ofpieces from any one stack. The person taking the last

Conference Session

Capstone Course in Industrial Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Recayi Pecen; Ronald O'Meara

Session 3250 Design and Construction of a Solar Powered Outdoor Digital Display as a Capstone Design Project by Recayi Pecen Ronald O’Meara Electrical & Information Engineering Technology Manufacturing Technology Ayhan Zora Department of Industrial Technology, University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, IowaAbstractThe senior design project is a capstone course taken in the final year of the Electrical andInformation Engineering

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kishore Kotteri; Joan Carletta; Amy Bell

Session 3232 Quantized FIR Filter Design: A Collabor ative Project for Digital Signal Processing and Digital Design Cour ses Kishor e A. Kotter i, Amy E. Bell, J oan E. Car letta Vir ginia Tech / Vir ginia Tech / The Univer sity of Akr onAbstr actWe describe a collaborative, team-based filter design project for students in two senior-levelelectrical and computer engineering courses: Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and Digital Design(DD). The objective of the project is to replicate real-world issues involved in the design andimplementation of digital filters. These issues can not be

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Kramer

Session 2225 Achieving EC2000 Outcomes in the Capstone Design Via Structured Industry Advisory Board Involvement Kathleen A. Kramer University of San DiegoAbstractThe capstone design sequence was selected as a focus for the structure of the activities of anindustry advisory board. The focus on the capstone sequence provided both a framework forongoing industry involvement and an improvement in student project results. Activities includedsupplying input on changes in the approach to the design process within the capstone sequence,such as team

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Denny Davis; Yi Min Huang; Larry McKenzie; Michael Trevisan

Engineering EducationOne aspect of design education now receiving attention is the capstone design experience. Todd etal. in 1995 surveyed capstone engineering courses throughout North America to understand currentpractices in capstone education4. The study found that many engineering programs were usingsenior design/capstone-type courses to help prepare students for engineering practice, and asignificant number of institutions engaged industrial clients to sponsor capstone projects. Inaddition, a number of schools were using undergraduate team based projects, with a few using inter-departmental undergraduate teams from different disciplines. They concluded that this facultyintensive investment was valuable in producing competent engineering

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Sayed

followed across different capstone classes with application to machinedesign and automotive capstone classes is presented. The developed process fosters creativity,develops students’ communication skills and provides a logical product realizationengineering/management experience.The educational design process starts with team building and brainstorming focusing oncreativity as right brain activity. From the brainstorming list of projects one is selected based oncreativity, effort and timing. Each team proceeds to develop a written and oral proposalcontaining product history, state of the art, Bill of Product, development and simulationmethodology, project management/impacts and cost estimates. The Bill of Product represents theset of product