Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Will Cluett; Peter Weiss; Kim Woodhouse; David Bagley; Susan McCahan

cohesive course outline. The newcourse, entitled Engineering Strategies and Practice (ESP), is a two-course sequence (26 weekstotal) that was offered on a pilot basis for 100 students in the 2003-04 academic year.There are many different elements that have been developed for design courses.1 The two-course sequence that was piloted this past year combines a number of these elements and hassome special attributes. There is a major design project carried out for a real client. The team ofinstructors is a mix of engineering professors, communication instructors, and industryprofessionals. In addition, considerable class time is allocated to understanding how human,social, and environmental issues are brought into the design process. This is done, in

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ming-Sung Koh; Mick Brzoska; William Loendorf

department utilizes multi-disciplinary, problem-oriented team projects. This approach allows students from differentprograms and departments to work together on projects that simulate real working scenarios.Group projects and assignments stressed throughout the program culminate with a team seniorproject and a capstone design class.Direct involvement of industry. Industrial representatives are given the opportunity to provideinput into curriculum, laboratory refinements and to identify skill sets required in the SET workenvironment through the advisory broad. These relationships have helped identify a series ofindustry related problems that exemplify current and cutting-edge trends and related workforcepreparation needs that have been addressed in

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Cambron; H. Joel Lenoir

traditionalservice courses in each of the disciplines. Although mechanics and thermal/fluid courses for theEE’s and circuits/machinery courses for the ME’s are important and necessary, they are notsufficient to give the students the skills to deal with these new systems.Western Kentucky University has implemented a course, EE 285: Introduction to IndustrialAutomation, in an attempt to build a bridge between the EE and ME programs. The goal is givethe students a common language in this area so that multidisciplinary capstone and professionalprojects are more easily accomplished. The results of two years of offering the course, includingstudent feedback and course assessment are included. Examples of projects tackled by thestudents, lessons learned by the

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approaches

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Dunn; John Brauer

with two practice rounds followed by an eight weekcompetitive series. Using this simulation, the students learn the interaction of all corporatefunctions and the trade-offs necessary for a company to gain market share and make profits. Astockholders meeting presentation by the team is conducted at the end of the 8 simulated years ofcompetition. The CAPSTONE business simulation is used in hundreds of business curriculumsalso being used in undergraduate engineering education at University of Colorado-Boulder,Arizona Western College, and Milwaukee School of Engineering.2. Effective Business PresentationsEffective business presentations are learned in a project based exercise taught by the members ofthe class. Sections of the book The Articulate

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Richards; Daniel Pack; David Ahlgren; Igor Verner

of robots created by another set of students during the past academic year. (a) Walking Robot (b) Flying Robot (c) Search Robots Fig. 4. Three example robotics projects used in a senior design courseMotivations: Projects based on robotics are ideal for a senior capstone design course since they Page 9.504.8provide ample opportunities for students to exercise skills and knowledge associated with (1)Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationelectrical/electronics engineering as

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Howard Smolleck

programs, and have assisted with laboratorymaintenance and instruction. Perhaps the most rewarding on-campus activity, asdiscussed below, has been the involvement of these students in laboratory development,primarily through senior design classes (Capstone projects).3. The Laboratory Beginning in 2000, the faculty began a concerted effort to develop and equip a newlaboratory in the Energy Systems area. The focus of the efforts was to create a modernlaboratory that would allow us to explore concepts at a system level and then graduallyexpose students to the details of individual pieces of equipment, including design, testingand operational issues. The “Systems” approach, outlined in Table 1, is consistent with ourrecent curriculum review. It

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeannie Brown Leonard; Janet Schmidt; Linda Schmidt; Paige Smith

”occupations and projects. As engineering educators, we would like each student to be proficientin all aspects of the subject matter and be prepared to work in the rapidly changing world ofengineering and industry. Rather than focusing on a specialized task role in the team such as“Construction Expert,” each team member should multi-task, performing all tasks necessary tocomplete the team project and learn all the engineering content.Study MethodUsing a qualitative methodology (focus groups), six intact teams from selected courses (e.g.,first-year students taking the Introduction to Engineering course (ENES 100) and seniorscompleting their senior capstone experience) were interviewed. This methodology was chosenbecause the aim was to solicit a

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tord Dennis; Robert Fulton

virtual meetings (see Figure 9).To start, a series of planning teleconferences were held between the sponsor administrators to set theroles and responsibilities of each entity. It was expected that this phase would be more of a researchand discovery activity as the teams learned more about the scope of the project and how to collaboratewith distributed members. The project managers at GT and John Deere prepared a Project Plan toserve as a living document to guide the team through the project. A master ProE model of the vehiclewas built using skeletons to help define the interfaces between functional subsystems. At GT the projectincorporated both the CAx/PxM class (ME 4041) and the senior capstone design course (ME 4182).Five students were charged

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Coffin; Catherine Almquist; Amit Shukla; Michael Bailey-Van Kuren; James Kiper; Christine Noble

involve upper class students toassist first year students in learning and research to promote an active environment.Integrated Threads: This reform will build upon the first-year experience by integrating a key setof skills through out the curricula. Communication skills, logical problem solving, designmethods and ethics, trade-off analysis, and computing methods are possible skills that will beintegrated. Each of these skills will form a “thread”. These threads will be incorporated in thecurricula by appropriately selecting the courses for each major for a unifying experience. Thisexperience will culminate by a multidisciplinary capstone senior design project to furtherembellish the overall experience and training of our students. In this

Conference Session

Design And Manufacturing Experiences I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jim Lyall; Rachel Shinn

course is afollow on course to a one-semester preliminary design course. Together, they constitute theprogram capstone design component. In detail design the principles of design are taught andapplied to the multiple subsystems and integration required for spacecraft. This requiresconsideration of the practical requirements and constraints typically required for spacecraft. It isimportant to note that the design course employs the entire class as a single team, and that thefinal result of the course is a design and tested prototype of an integrated spacecraft model.The objectives of the Spacecraft Detail Design course are to 1) teach the detailed design process,including analysis leading to configuration managed specification drawings, assembly

Conference Session

Service Learning in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Carla Zoltowski; Frank DeRego; Lynne Slivovsky; William Oakes

of the service theyprovide to their community and, in a broader sense, the impact they can have on the world. Researchhas shown that students participating in service learning have a higher comprehension of the coursematerial and also develop an awareness of their local community and the issues it faces. In engineering,there are many examples of service-learning programs ranging from freshman introductory courses tosenior capstone courses. Despite their successes, an area that the engineering education community hasyet to fully develop is the reflection component of service learning. This paper addresses thedevelopment of reflection activities and materials in the Engineering Projects in Community Service(EPICS) program at Purdue University

Conference Session

Innovation in Continuing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Martin Cala; Jaymin Patel; Ganesh Kudav; Burke Davis

), which exposes engineering students to real world undergraduate consultingopportunities in the community [3, 4, 5, 6]. This aspect of the project meets the intellectual meritand the broader impacts criteria.3. MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS OF ENGAGEMENT The Parker Hannifin Hydraulics Research and Education Center at Youngstown StateUniversity is a prime example of integrating an industry-sponsored program with curricularinnovation. This center, described below, provides the opportunity to design and develop multi-disciplinary experiments, and creates project opportunities for students both in the laboratory andin the field. Furthermore, it sets the framework for proposed experimentation capstone courses,improves the “demonstrations” in the

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Daughton

and Exposition Copyright  2002 American Society for Engineering EducationCurriculumThe program curriculum through 2003 with individual course titles is illustrated in Table 1. Thecurriculum is divided into three focused tracks. These tracks are in quality and processmanagement, R&D management, and operations management. Students are required to selectone of the three core curriculum track options when they begin their course of study. Threetechnical electives and a final capstone research project are also required to complete the degree Table 1. Program Curriculum Core Technical Management Curriculum (18

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shana Craft; David Click; P. Paxton Marshall

domestic hot water and space heating using a radiant floor. There is also a stone-linedsunroom for collecting and storing solar energy, and adjustable louvers over the extensive south-facing glazing to regulate incoming solar radiation. Data logging, control and user interface areintegrated by a LabVIEW-based automation system. The house continues to serve as alaboratory for multidisciplinary capstone design team projects. The project, which allows students to learn energy concepts in an integrated realisticsetting, provides numerous benefits for engineering students that are often lacking in standardengineering instruction, and that are being emphasized by the new ABET EC 2000 criteria. Itintroduces them to holistic systems thinking—that

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Stewart; Carole Goodson; Susan Miertschin; Luces Faulkenberry

(CIES). The CIES is a survey instrument that has been used for a number of years to gather data about student satisfaction of courses and instructors. It is administered every regular semester and it is scored by the University Measurement and Evaluation Service. Their evaluation of the CIES indicates it is a reliable and valid instrument. Additionally, records and statistical analysis of components of the CIES are readily, though not always speedily, available. This measurement tool provides course-by-course data from which teacher and course effectiveness information can be gleaned. • Capstone Courses. Upper level capstone courses with projects, research

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports

Is It Senior Design or a High Tech Start-Up? Ken Ports Florida Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe Senior Design course taken near the end of an engineer’s undergraduate tenure isincreasingly recognized as a “capstone” activity, enabling these future professionals to applytheir collegiate education and experience in a team environment to solving real world problemsor to creating new capabilities. Ideally, Senior Design teams are also cross-functional, tobroaden the projects and better replicate the professional world. In addition, there is a growinginterest in linking Senior Design with entrepreneurial activities, even to the point ofcommercializing

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dillard

the sophomore level andtwo in the junior, to introduce students to laboratory procedures and design projects13. Thefinal laboratory, an autonomous robot, is intended to be an open-ended project that preparesstudents for a senior-level capstone design course. In the lab, students use the PIC12F675microcontroller from Microchip Technology, Inc. to create an embedded systems solution14.We found that although the robot laboratory was being completed successfully, our averagestudents were not prepared for the independent thinking required in their capstone designs.To address this issue, we identified six new goals and methods for the robot laboratory. 1. Fully custom design – As much as possible, we wanted students to have complete control

Conference Session

Support and Partnership Opportunities

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ochs

their capstoneprojects. Professor Ochs from Mechanical Engineering, Professor Watkins fromEconomics and Professor Snyder from Design Arts, co-teach the IBE freshman course innew product development and the two-semester capstone projects courses. Based on Page 9.857.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education 2June 2004 ASEE Conference Entrepreneurship Division #54previous year’s experiences, for the year 2004 capstone

Conference Session

Technology-Based Entrepreneurship Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hsu Tze Chi; Han Bee Shan

" 2004_1612business and business administration. The fuel cell scooter and educational kitpowered by fuel cell were used as capstone design projects to integrate the knowledgetaught in the modular courses. To facilitate these capstone projects and provide a closelink to the business environment, the design projects were implemented as a virtualcompany. In doing this, we believe that students will be more effectively prepared tomeet the challenges in the future job market.II. Modular Courses Sophomore and junior students are qualified to join these modular courses. Allinvolved courses are classified in Fig.1. Students must join one of the modularcourses and fulfill all of the requirements specified in that module. In addition to therequirements stated in

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii

). Thisconcept is part of an educational philosophy that distributes design experience across thecurriculum before it culminates into two capstone-design courses in the senior year. This successhas led the author to change the way he teaches engineering science courses.In this paper, the author synthesizes the experiences and success that he has had in integratingdesign in fluid mechanics (Njock Libii, 2002)25 and in vibration analysis into the essentialpedagogical practices that led to this success.There has been renewed interest in examining the teaching of design in the engineeringcurriculum in the past decade (Martin, Adams, &Turns, 2002)21. This interest has been spurredin part by the new accreditation criteria required by ABET-2000 and in part

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Vaz

credit-hour senior year project in the major field. Called the Major Qualifying Project (MQP), this finalproject serves as ECE students’ capstone design experience.The ECE Design course was originally motivated by assessment5 indicating the need to improvestudents’ understanding of the process of design in preparation for the MQP. A second objectivefor the ECE Design course is to assure that students, who typically take the course at the end ofthe second year, are able to apply the fundamentals of ECE in the context of an independent,team-based design project. The course takes place roughly midway through ECE students’undergraduate careers, and is intentionally a formative design experience, rather than asummative capstone design project. At the

Conference Session

Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Thompson; William Oakes

, September.Bodner, G. M., D. MacIsaac, D., & White, S. R. (1999). Action Research: Overcoming the SportsMentality Approach to Assessment/Evaluation, University Chemistry Education, 1999, 3(1), 31-36.Catalano, G. D., Wray, P., and Cornelio, S. (2000). Compassion Practicum: A Capstone DesignExperience at the United States Military Academy, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 90, No. 4,Oct. 2000, pp. 471-477.Coyle, E. J., Foretek, R., Gray, J. L., Jamieson, L. H., Oakes, W. C., Watia, J. & Wukasch, R. (2000).EPICS: Experiencing engineering design through community service projects. 2000 ASEE AnnualConference, Charlotte, NC, June 2000.Coyle, E. J., Jamieson, L. J. & Dietz, H. G. (1996). Long-term community service projects in the

Conference Session

Graduate Education in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Koontz

to three management courses, which are offered by RIT’s Collegeof Business.Finally, the MSTET program includes a capstone project, which may be a thesis (8 quarter credithours) or a project (4 quarter credit hours). Students who choose the project option mustcomplete an additional elective, which can be a fourth management course.Table 2 summarizes the MSTET program requirements for both the thesis and the project option. Table 2 Thesis Option Core courses 6 4 24 Technical electives 1–4 4 4 − 16 Management electives 0–3

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Johnson

information is communicatedfrom the device to each assembly workstation using a specialized wireless infrared system with aprogrammable microcontroller. This proof-of-concept project was one of several components ina Manufacturing Engineering Technology senior capstone course. The resulting device wasgiven the name “Smart Pallet” by Dr. Wesley Baldwin who also presented the original conceptfor the project.Background:The operating environment for this project is a student constructed computer integratedmanufacturing (CIM) laboratory. A 15 foot by 6 foot oval assembly line track is the centralcomponent in the CIM laboratory. Assembly workstations are positioned at several pointsaround the outside perimeter of the assembly line track. In addition, GE

Conference Session

The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

kenneth weaver

Multidisciplinary Design Projects Multidisciplinary Design ProjectsMost engineering programs currently include a Capstone Design course to meet the designneeds, but this approach has some shortcomings. In a one- or two-semester long course, the needto include such varied skills as communications, project management and teamwork takes awayfrom the focus on design skills development. Furthermore, the traditional Capstone Designcourse is not multidisciplinary, which is a valuable experience for preparing students in theworkplace. Finally, since the Capstone project occurs at the end of a student’s undergraduate Page 9.351.3career, it does

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Cambron; Jian Peng

Spring 2004, we are going to replacesome 7400 labs with Xilinx CPLD, which are donated by Xilinx through their UniversityDonation Program [5].Introduction to Industrial AutomationWestern Kentucky University has implemented a course, EE 285: Introduction to IndustrialAutomation, in an attempt to build a bridge between the EE and ME programs [6]. The goal isgive the students a common language in this area so that multidisciplinary capstone andprofessional projects are more easily accomplished.Students are assigned hardware kits containing an Allen-Bradley PLC and an Atmel AVRmicrocontroller, along with various sensors, switches, and other input/output devices. Thestudents work on a range of projects to build an understanding of not only the use

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karim Muci-Kuchler; Jonathan Weaver

the knowledge and skills required to successfully complete this task.To explore the benefits of this approach, a formal process to actively identify customerrequirements was introduced into a sophomore PD course, a senior capstone design course, and agraduate level course in PD. Although the level of interest demonstrated by the teams varied,some of them managed to understand the customer requirements at a level that was above theinstructor’s expectations. In this paper, the approach followed, the results obtained, andsuggestions for future improvement are discussed in the context of projects carried out by thestudents. Page 9.851.1

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Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafiqul Islam

tradition ofaddressing this issue of entrepreneurship in our curriculum by the universities and colleges is thesenior capstone project. But the author thinks that the recent tendency of developing coursesaimed at teaching entrepreneurship must be accelerated throughout the United States andbeyond. The ultimate outcome will enable the engineering and technology graduates to work forsomeone or to start their own companies. This will benefit the society by reducing burden ofunemployment. Entrepreneurship in the engineering and technology curriculum is presented hereafter studying from different perspectives.Global Accreditation of Engineering and Technology ProgramIt is a familiar fact that we are not producing enough engineers and technologists from

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lopez; Roger Gonzalez; Paul Leiffer

endeavors? At LeTourneau University we involve research as part of our two-semester capstone senior design sequence. While not all of our students are required to have aresearch project, several students do participate in funded research projects – especially thosewho may be considering graduate school. As an added bonus, the engineering program atLeTourneau University allows a student to take a 3-hour technical elective during his/her junioryear to participate as a “junior member” of the senior research team. This junior technicalelective is spread throughout the entire junior year and involves a significant commitment of thestudent. In one particular major, Biomedical Engineering, the junior research experience is

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dilip Mirchandani; Kathryn Hollar; Beena Sukumaran; John Chen; Yusuf Mehta

Laboratory Sophomore Multidisciplinary Design 16-Week Multidisciplinary Design Modules Project Junior Product Development Process Development Senior Multidisciplinary Capstone Design/Research ProjectTable 1 contains an overview of course content in the 8-semester engineering clinic sequence.As shown in the table, each clinic course has a specific theme although the underlying concept ofengineering design pervades throughout. The solutions of these problems require not onlyproficiency in the technical principles, but, as importantly, require a mastery of written and oralcommunication skills and the ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team. In