we are in for a career of stressful project rewrites, but it does mean if we want to keep thecourse current, we will have to find a pace of making changes that we can maintain indefinitely,reminiscent of one the principles of agile development: Agile processes promote sustainabledevelopment. [Everyone] should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely. [4].Related WorkWeb-development projects – especially those involving the development of small e-commerceweb sites – are popular in software engineering education. They work well with project-basedlearning [5] and agile methods [6]. They are well-suited for courses where industry collaborationor a real-world feel is desired [7][8], especially in capstone projects [9]. We found that
inthe engineering curriculum, the projects were completed in single classes.In this study, a PBL approach is implemented by developing projects in a series of requiredcourses in a Mechanical Engineering curriculum. The projects assigned in each course are relatedand planned to build up the knowledge and skills needed to develop a successful senior designproject or capstone project. In implementing the approach, the instructor identifies the topic orproblem to be proposed as a senior design project. In the first of the sequential courses, anexperimental measurements laboratory course, a project is assigned regarding a sensor that couldbe used in the senior design project. In the second of the sequential courses, a thermal-fluidslaboratory course
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Conceptual Cylinder Head CAD Project for AssessmentAbstractA cylinder head design project is used to assess 3D prismatic modeling skills during a capstonecourse sequence. The capstone course sequence features a large, multi-year project that may nothave 3D modeling components of similar complexity for all students. The project ensures thatall students are assessed using a similar project. The geometric model is designed to support thecreation of a physical prototype that may be used for airflow development models. Models areprinted using filament deposition printing techniques. The solid model also supports the use ofvirtual airflow analysis using computational fluid dynamics
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Paper ID #31251Interdisciplinary Design Project Teams: Structuring an ImpactfulExperienceProf. Jeanne M Homer, Oklahoma State University Professor Homer received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her Master of Architecture from Arizona State University in Tempe. She has been a practicing ar- chitect in Chicago, Phoenix, and Oklahoma. While she was practicing, she taught at the Art Institute of Chicago and at Arizona State University before teaching in Stillwater full time for 17 years. Profes- sor Homer received the 2013 International Education Faculty Excellence Award, the
can lead to mismatches in expectations as wellas missed opportunities for fruitful collaboration.This paper explores the perceived value of participating as an industry-sponsor tomultidisciplinary engineering design capstone courses. Four industry partners wereinterviewed in the beginning, middle and end of two project-based courses (and one industrypartner once) to track what value they expected from the course and what value theyperceived to be delivered. The thirteen in-depth interviews averaged 50 minutes, were audio-recorded and transcribed for analysis.Based on the qualitative analysis, the motivation to take part as a sponsor in these project-based courses initially centered around new innovative products. However, there was acontinuum
, the quality and quantity of the support staff, in particular undergraduateteaching assistants, were found to be more crucial than anticipated and a robust recruitmentprocess became necessary. The high-stake design project in ME 250 changes each semester toprevent students from obtaining a set of solutions or project reports from prior terms, so teachingassistant training is continuous. The specifics of each problem encountered will be described inthe paper, along with lesson learned on how best to handle each situation and create a structurewhere continuous improvement can be made sustainable.Keywords: first year design, mechanical engineering, Arduino, project-based engineering1 IntroductionME 250 is a first-year design course offered at
reasoning used by five differentmembers of a mechanical engineering capstone design team as they partnered with a veterinarianto design a device for horse lung functioning assessment. Technology for veterinary medicinecan be a rich and engaging context for undergraduate design projects. Veterinary technologiesoffer an appropriate level of complexity and provide a new viewpoint on science concepts thatare part of the mechanical engineering canon [7], [8]. Moreover, because veterinarians have bothvery real technological needs and deep STEM knowledge to help mentor students, they can beideal capstone design clients.This case study looks specifically at one fourth-year undergraduate engineering team whosecapstone design client was a professor of
civil engineering design projects. The projects ex- pose the civil engineering students to real world design problems. The students gain first hand experience communicating professionally, developing schedules, meeting deadlines and preparing professional qual- ity reports and presentations. Prof. Brunell is also the director of the Water Resouces graduate program. In addition to Senior Design she teaches Surveying and Water Resources. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020AbstractCivil Engineering Capstone Design requires undergraduate students to work in teams withprofessional mentors to develop solutions to relevant real-world problems. Recent changes toboth ABET Engineering
is no study that explores the change in leadership behaviors among engineering students asthey are transitioning from their senior year to workplaces. Even though CVF has not beenwidely used in identifying leadership behaviors in the engineering education context, throughthis study CVF offers a valuable way to compare different leadership behaviors amongengineering students as they progress into their early careers.MethodologyThe participants in this study are drawn from a larger study of capstone design courses from fourdifferent universities across the United States [25]. There were 62 participants recruited fromCapstone courses from these universities. Sequential mixed methods analysis was carried out inthe larger project. The full data
) and Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT), HAWT is relatively ineffective forbuildings and locations near buildings, and faces local resistance due to noise as well asaesthetic, visual and public safety concerns [6]. Alternatively, VAWT has been predicted as apotential solution for small-size wind turbines that are installed at buildings and near buildings[7, 8].Responding to that line of discussions, one of the engineering capstone teams have been workingon designing and building an Aesthetically Pleasing Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (APVAWT)system with a logo of the Liberty University School of Engineering for their capstone project. Toachieve the functionality and aesthetics of the APVAWT system, art design team joined fordesigning aesthetically
Paper ID #28316The Use of MATLAB Live as a Technology-enabled Learning EnvironmentforComputational Modeling Activities within a 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.Ms. Aparajita Jaiswal, Purdue University, West Lafayette Aparajita
Education, 2020 Mini-Project Explorations to Develop Steel and Concrete Gravity System Design SkillsAbstractCore undergraduate steel and concrete courses focus their content on the fundamentals ofanalyzing and designing members. While this builds core knowledge in future structural engineers,many times these examples, homework, and exams approach isolated systems and/or members toconvey topics. It is often up to the capstone to connect members to systems; yet, there is often agap between offerings. If larger picture systems can adopted earlier, then stronger connections tothe topic while also informing students of real project complexity has potential. This paperdiscusses a two offerings of a yearlong piloted
epistemological thinking at the starting point before the SDPsexperiences. This was designed in such a manner because of our limited access toopportunities to distribute surveys among the students. Qualitatively, an interview protocol was designed to explore the roles of students,their peers/teammates, and advisors in the context of SDPs and relevant factors. Sampleinterview questions include descriptive questions such as, can you describe theprocesses of completing your capstone project briefly? What roles did you play in acapstone project? What method did you use in order to finish your task? As you thinkabout your instructors, professors, advisors, what role do you think they have played?What kinds of interactions with them helped you with your
graduation rates of participating students in Computer Science and Engineering. 3. Provide leadership training and opportunities for students within a student chapter of a professional organization, through multidisciplinary projects, and through student-to- student mentoring. 4. Strengthen engaged learning opportunities for students through a CS 1400 (Fundamentals of Programming) course project (freshman level) and through multidisciplinary IEEE student section projects and a required for-credit capstone project. 5. Provide faculty mentors for each program participant; increase the efficacy of faculty mentoring provided to each student participant in the scholarship program by faculty- mentor training and
multiple admin domains without requiring significant local IT resources [11]The second project is providing the monitoring tools deployed on the platform developed by this project.3. Project SetupDuring their degree seeking studies students are mostly exposed to individual projects or projectsinvolving classmates studying the same subject matter. Capstone projects, when offered, are the mostcommon opportunities for more diverse and more creative learning opportunities. The challenge faced bythe video-conferencing service provided an opportunity to explore models for formalizing models ofengaging students from different departments to advance their own domain knowledge and to workacross domains by addressing real-life problems. In this section we
,mechatronics-style courses and design experiences that have been developed to address this gap[1, 8, 9, 10] (for a thorough sampling of mechatronics education resources, please see [11]).Inevitably, resource and time restrictions, coupled with needing extensive training through pre-requisite courses, limits early exposure to mechatronics-style design projects. Unfortunately, thisoften delays this important introduction to mechatronics and system design to late in theengineering curriculum, likely coinciding with other courses which would benefit from studentshaving had prior experience of such skills (such as capstone design projects). As a result, there isa growing interest in providing systems-level, mechatronics-like training early on in
level rise to prepare for the inevitability of severestorms. Engineering students from Old Dominion University joined the effort, first as volunteersand then as capstone design students.The project began with significant community engagement which was orchestrated through thecivic league. Students were thus able to pin-point flooding, shoreline erosion, and the rates atwhich basements were taking on water and develop an urgent level of motivation to helpcommunity members with whom they became acquainted. Simultaneously, students met withacademics and area professionals with expertise in pieces of the puzzle (preservationists, marinebiologists, landscape architects, oceanographers, and hydrologists among them) and with cityplanners and storm
for the class, students areinformed at the start of class that they will be purchasing the custom PCBs and components fortheir project.While the tools and facilities necessary to support PCB assembly and testing are inexpensive,most serve a multipurpose role and support graduate research, capstone projects, and otherelectronics exercises as well. These include: • Professional ECAD Software: This course uses Altium Design Workbench as the PCB design software. This software was chosen because it is a powerful professional tool commonly used in local industry and, after 2018, Altium reestablished very reasonable rates for university licenses. • Assembly tools: Good stencil printers, either accepting standard framed
engineering laboratories in the thirdyear. The final year consists of traditional capstone design projects, similar to those at mostaccredited programs.As noted in the previous section, retention can be improved by many different factors. One ofthe results of having a project course with professional skills every semester during the entiredegree program is that as students work in teams and present so that they get to know each otherwell and develop a community. As already noted, a community aids in student retentionthroughout the entire four-year sequence [4]. Particularly in the second year, more benefit isgained when a focus is placed on directing students toward their future careers and providingmentorship to aid their motivation to continue in
, including seniordesign or capstone projects. So how do students continually practice creativity if the number ofopportunities to improve only occur during the later years of an engineering program? Theauthors of this paper explore a PBL pedagogical opportunity for first-year engineering students inan electrical and computer engineering course that they believe provides students with sufficientopportunities to expand their creative processes.The intention of this work-in-progress paper is tooutline the process of replication of this PBL approach from Universidad T´ecnica Federico SantaMar´ıa to be implemented in a research study at Texas A&M University.4 Description of class structure and teaching methodsPrior to implementing a new project, it
havethe opportunity to earn academic credit for their engineering design work. A key difference in thisframework as compared to other typical capstone designs, independent studies, or research creditcourses is that undergraduate TAs and project managers within the project teams are responsiblefor developing many of the assignments distributed to those students enrolled the course as theproject progresses. The methods of student assessment within this framework include: individualor small-group weekly assignments, design notebook checks, peer and self-evaluations,participation, summative technical reports, and the Humanitarian Library. Additionally, unlikemany traditional problem set or laboratory courses, student skills are developed through
those core courses serve as thesteppingstone to advanced professional courses in the discipline. Other curricula rely on themechanics courses in a similar way but have a different disciplinary core at the junior level anddifferent professional courses at the senior level.The three courses are generally associated with three semester credit hours each. At the rise ofThe Mechanics Project, these courses were taught in a lecture-based format that met twice aweek using common mechanics textbooks. We will refer to this context as the “traditional”learning environment, which is comprised of lecture during class time, homework outside ofclass, and a few exams to assess learning. Capstone
Paper ID #28413Work in Progress: Inquiry-Based Lessons for Introduction to EngineeringInstructionDr. Michelle M Blum, Syracuse University Dr. Blum is interested in research in improving undergraduate engineering education; including develop- ment of inquiry based activities for first year engineering courses, improvement of student design projects, hands-on activities, professional skills development and inclusion and outreach activities. Dr. Blum also specializes in high performance materials development and characterization for tribological (friction and wear), structural, and biomedical applications
Paper ID #28825The emergence of the project manager role in student design teams: Amixed-methods exploratory studyMeagan Flus, University of Waterloo Meagan Flus is a MASc student in the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo. Her current research area is engineering design education with specific interest in design cognition. Her future work will focus on the intersection of data and design.Dr. Ada Hurst, University of Waterloo Ada Hurst is a Continuing Lecturer in the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo. She has taught and coordinated the capstone design courses in the
BME capstone design course. BMECore 1 will comprise biomechanics, instrumentation, and sensors; BME Core 2 will comprisebiophysics, biomaterials, and transport; and BME Core 3 will comprise modeling biologicalsystems and signals. BME Design course 0 will provide the fundamentals of the design processand engage students with small team-based design projects motivated by the clinical needs ofcolleagues in our adjacent medical school. Design courses 1 and 2 will cover regulatorystandards and validation testing, respectively. BME Design 3 will consist of small-scale, team-based collaborations to aid in the transition into Capstone Design, which is required during the4th year. An elective second capstone semester will focus on commercialization of
assignment was added to the co-op sequence, it was noticed that students wereproposing some projects that had a lot of merit but that they were too complex for one student tocomplete within a single co-op semester. To support the overall curriculum within the GVSUengineering programs, the employers were encouraged to submit these proposals forconsideration as a project for the industry sponsored capstone projects that all GVSUengineering students are required to complete. These multi-disciplinary projects are completedby teams of four to six students over the course of two semesters. Having a well-defined projectproposal and a student that is familiar with the company, which the employer can request be amember of the team, leads to very successful
sxover 80% of the theoretical satisfaction ( smax ), based on every student getting their firstpreference. On average, it took 350 generations to converge at a solution, which translates tounder 3 minutes on most systems.User study 1: a Mechanical Engineering capstone coursejunto was used by the instructor of a senior capstone course in the Mechanical EngineeringDepartment of a large public research university in Fall 2019 and Spring 2020 semesters. Whilethe front end was not yet complete, the backend code proved effective both semesters. Thissection summarizes background information about the course, and the method previously used toassign students to projects, the results from junto and the instructor feedback.Course descriptionThe capstone
professional development of a competent biomedical engineer workforce that can effectivelyaccomplish emphatic innovation, and one that can frame and re-frame problems through theinnovation process. Our research examined how engineering students empathize with users anddevelop empathic abilities that have implications on their design innovation skills. The projectteam developed empathic innovation workshops and embedded them into existing biomedicalengineering capstone courses. Data were collected using surveys, student project reports,ideation tasks, and observations. These workshops resulted in significant changes in students’emphatic tendencies. From our qualitative studies, we also conjectured that the overall empathicpotency of a student design
courses in ET Masters program. Also, she introduced the first experiential activity for Applied Mechanics courses. She is coordinator and advisor for capstone projects for Engineering Technology.Mr. Mike Stine JrMr. Douglas Brian Forbes, Lockheed MartinMr. Benjamin Cohen,Ryan Buckley c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020Interdisciplinary Senior Design Project to Develop a Personal Blind Spot Information SystemIntroductionIn recent years there has been a big push to get students into the STEM fields. However, what seems to belacking in this academic push is the hands-on side of it. Engineering simply just is not about equations, butactually design and developing as well as fabricating a physical