jurisdictionalauthorities to establish a $200 million airport infrastructure improvement program, which issolely focused on increasing roadway capacity for a critical area surrounding an internationalairport and associated industrial manufacturing facilities. The transportation improvementprogram includes three new interchanges and a realignment of the primary airport access road.The capstone design project at The Citadel focused on determining an optimal solution for one ofthe new interchange locations. The use of this real-world assignment as a capstone design projectwas enthusiastically supported by the region’s airport authority, local jurisdictions, consultingengineering, and construction community. Students work in teams of 4-5 to develop designsolutions to
Transportation Engineers (ITE) student chapter. Page 23.721.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Improving Students’ Capstone Experience with Community ParticipationSenior design projects are a culmination of students’ academic and lifelong lessons, and as aresult, should be meaningful, have multiple outcomes, and far-reaching benefits. Moreover, theyshould challenge students and provide a real-world experience. One component of the designprocess it that is often overlooked is community involvement. Local citizens are a critical part ofthe project success and must be included.In order to
product. Another problematicassumption made in the students’ economic proposal was that what works under consumercapitalism in the U.S., where a high percentage of the population has expendable income, wouldwork in the very different economic circumstances of Nicaragua. The project was ultimatelystalled at the proposal stage because of disagreement about this point.By the time they reach their senior capstone, engineering students have often had few- if any-courses that require them to consider empathic approaches to designing for a client orcommunity whose racial, ethnic, national, socioeconomic, or other demographic backgrounddiffers from their own. This experience gap is reflected when students don’t have the tools tounderstand the needs of
Capstone course sequence was created to meet the increasing student demand for projectswith a humanitarian engineering context and to develop the global competencies required for studentsto successfully complete these projects. The demand was created due to the number of OSU studentspursing a Humanitarian Engineering Minor and/or the Global Option distinction. Students in theseprograms are required to participate in a capstone design experience that involves a global orhumanitarian focus.This paper will: 1. outline the Global Capstone course sequence development process, 2. describe the structure and learning outcomes of the Global Capstone course, 3. reflect on the challenges associated with managing a program focused on complex real
Paper ID #18534Global Humanitarian-based Projects: A Documentation Strategy for Strength-ening Project SustainabilityDr. Randy S. Lewis, Brigham Young University Dr. Randy S. Lewis is professor and chair of Chemical Engineering at Brigham Young University (BYU). He received his B.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from BYU and Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, respectively. He currently serves as vice-chair of the Education and Accreditation Committee of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and as an ABET commissioner for accrediting engineering programs. He previously served in several national
Paper ID #18808Case Study: A College-Wide Engineering Capstone Experience at the Uni-versity of TennesseeDr. Jennifer Q Retherford, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Dr. Retherford is an alumna of the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and received her graduate degrees from Vanderbilt University. She currently teaches a variety of courses supporting the department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Tennessee. Among many structural engineer- ing courses, Dr. Retherford manages the Senior Design Project course for all undergraduate seniors.Dr. J. A. M. Boulet, University of Tennessee, Knoxville J. A. M
Paper ID #16049Impacts of a University-wide Service Learning Program on a Senior Under-graduate Capstone CourseDr. Jennifer Queen Retherford, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Dr. Retherford is an alumna of the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and received her graduate degrees from Vanderbilt University. She currently teaches a variety of courses supporting the department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Tennessee. Among many structural engineer- ing courses, Dr. Retherford manages the Senior Design Project course for all undergraduate seniors.Kelly Summerford Ellenburg, The University of Tennessee
Paper ID #34139Engagement in Practice: Creating an Enduring Partnership in a MechanicalEngineering Capstone CourseMs. Shoshanah Cohen, Stanford University Shoshanah Cohen is the Director of Community Engaged Learning for Engineering and Lecturer in Me- chanical Engineering at Stanford University. She has more than 20 years of industry experience managing complex supply chain projects; her teaching focuses on experiential project-based operations courses. Shoshanah is actively engaged in local community organizations focused on public education and services for underserved students. She is a passionate advocate for girls in
Paper ID #7121An Assessment Approach to Project-Based Service LearningMs. Antonette T. Cummings, Purdue University Antonette Cummings is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.James Huff, Purdue University James L. Huff is a Ph.D. candidate in Engineering Education at Purdue University as well as the assistant education administrator for EPICS. He earned his B.S. in Computer Engineering at Harding University and an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He is currently on an academic
. Acciaioli, "Improving the success of “bottom-up” development work by acknowledging the dynamics among stakeholders: a case study from an Engineers Without Borders water supply project in Tenganan, Indonesia," Water Science and Technology, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 279-287, 2009.[5] A. Wittig, "Implementing Problem Based Learning through Engineers without Borders Student Projects," Advances in Engineering Education, vol. 3, no. 4, p. n4, 2013.[6] A. R. Bielefeldt, M. M. Dewoolkar, K. M. Caves, B. W. Berdanier, and K. G. Paterson, "Diverse models for incorporating service projects into engineering capstone design courses," International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 27, no. 6, p. 1206, 2011.[7] D. Akbar
where they provide asupportive foundation for the students above them.The authors hypothesize that this supportive structure lends itself ideally to faculty mentorship ofengineering design-and-build projects; for example capstone senior design projects. In well-managed student projects, faculty members do none of the actual design or construction work.Instead, they mentor a team of students toward successful completion of the challenge.To evaluate the impact of a servant-leadership teaching pedagogy in an engineering setting, aninterdisciplinary faculty collaboration was implemented that combined three components: 1) acurriculum-integrated design-and-build project; 2) an industrial engineering project managementcourse; and 3) sponsored service
being fulfilled. Service learning allows engineering to be donewith a community that serves as a customer, while creative and original design solutions can be Page 24.188.4developed by students to meet the community’s needs. Projects can be chosen as a group effortor as a senior capstone design project.Since 2005, the College of Engineering (CoE), Engineering, Education Innovation Center (EEIC)at The Ohio State University has conducted an engineering service-learning program in Honduras.The program is designed to introduce and teach students the concepts of humanitarianengineering through a practical, real-world, hands-on, service-learning
Humanity, museums, and natural resources and conservation organizations. Anumber of institutions of higher education have engaged in K-12 outreach work6. Typically,students work with K-12 partners in order to produce curricular materials intended to introduceyoung students to engineering and to promote interest in engineering and science. Padmanabhanand Katti7 described an example of a capstone project in civil engineering at North Dakota Stateinvolving community engagement. In this project, students worked with a local homeownersassociation to mitigate slope instabilities.In common to these engineering projects is a sometimes limited amount of back-and-forthbetween the students and the community sponsors. Typically the students contact the
, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) at the University of Colorado Boulder. She has also served as the ABET assessment coordinator for the CEAE Department since 2008. She has taught first-year introductory courses for CEAE students and capstone design for environmental engineer- ing since students since 1998. The capstone design course first included service-learning projects in 2001. Bielefeldt currently conducts research on social responsibility among engineering students and practition- ers, teaching sustainable engineering, engineering ethics, and faculty attitudes toward service-learning.Prof. Derek T Reamon, University of Colorado, Boulder
Paper ID #33788Engagement in Practice: Pedestrian Bridges as EngineeringService-learning ProjectsJay H. Arehart, University of Colorado Boulder Jay Arehart is an Instructor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder and has volunteered as the Education Manager for the Engineers in Action Bridge Program since 2017. Jay’s teaching focuses on project-based courses for architectural engineering students including architectural studios and capstone projects.Kathryn Langenfeld, University of MichiganMr. Brenton Kreiger American
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
, recruitment, and retention in K-12 and undergraduate engineering.Prof. Derek T Reamon, University of Colorado, BoulderDr. Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt, Ph.D., P.E., is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder (CU) in the Department of Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering. She has been at CU since 1996. During that time, she has taught Introduction to Civil Engineering to first-year students numerous times. She also teaches the senior capstone design course for environmental engineering, and this course has included service-learning projects for local or international communities since 2000. Bielefeldt has been researching teaching innovations
nature of the integration between the sophomore and senior students is slightly distinct, andis not as interactive as the one discussed above. The sophomore students are required to attendsome of the presentation sessions and group meetings of the senior students (working on theirCapstone projects). They are also required to attend the poster presentation session made by thesenior students at the culmination of their Capstone project. The sophomore students are requiredto write reflection papers to explain their experience and to explain their understanding of theproject. The main rationale behind this interaction is to introduce the sophomores to the open-ended, and often vague, project objectives of the Capstone projects. Furthermore, the
, high school students — especially those in underrepresented groups — are unlikely to be adequately prepared for college and have the requisite information for choosing a career, in STEM or other fields. (pp. 62-63)In the design of HA, we chose upper level (3rd and 4th year) university engineering students to bethe role models for several reasons. First, they are in the midst of experiencing the rigors of theirengineering program and have completed a significant number of courses within their majors.All have experience in learning to use the tools and procedures important to their engineeringdisciplines. Second, many have experienced early career elements that extend beyond theclassroom, such as serving on a capstone design team
Engineering Course Through a Critical Review over its Offerings Orner, K. , Prouty, C. , Naughton, C. , Manser, N. , Verbyla, M. , Trotz, M. and Mihelcic, J.R. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 University of South Florida Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 1AbstractThe Sustainable Development Engineering course has evolved over its seven offerings at aresearch university in which interdisciplinary groups of graduate students engage in criticalthinking, problem solving, and collaborate with community partners. Students provide on-siteskilled labor, multi-media presentations, and project proposals for the community; in
Paper ID #8657Student Perceptions of Design Projects That Involve Developing Assistive De-vices for Elementary School Children with DisabilitiesDr. Matthew T. Siniawski, Loyola Marymount University Dr. Matthew T. Siniawski is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. He teaches the senior capstone design project courses and has recently begun mentoring students on the design of assistive devices for children with disabilities. One of his research interests lies in understanding how these Learning Through Service projects impact participating engineering students
interests in engineering education focus on project-based learning and service-based pedagogies.Dr. Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Dr. Angela Bielefeldt, PE, is a professor and associate chair for Undergraduate Education in the De- partment of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. She began incorporating service-learning projects into the capstone design course for environmental en- gineering in 2001. Her engineering education research interests include attracting and retaining students, sustainable engineering education, engineering ethics, and assessment of learning outcomes.Prof. Kurt Paterson P.E., Michigan Technological UniversityProf. David O
attach to their helmets or shirts.• For mine tailings remediation, students developed a conceptual design to use remediated tailings as raw material to make construction bricks.• For miner’s safety and health, students identified a number of ergonomic backpack designs to minimize back injuries when carrying ore out of mine shaftsEDNS 491-92 Engineering for Community Development (ECD) Capstone Design Studio. Tocontinue addressing the problems associated with design for industry mentioned above, wedeveloped a design studio environment inside of our university’s Capstone Design course thatallows us to bring in multiple ECD projects at the same time, requiring different time frames fortheir completion, and different skill sets required
, CAD, and Capstone Design. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 An Undergraduate Engineering Service-Learning Project Involving 3D-Printed Prosthetic Hands for Children ABSTRACTThis paper describes a service-learning project in our mechanical engineering program in whichstudents 3D print and build prosthetic arms and hands for children in need within the community.Three engineering students worked with three faculty members to adapt 3D models currentlyavailable through the E-NABLE organization’s website. The children involved typically have alimb missing either below the wrist or below the elbow. The 3D printed device provides a
proficiency with tools such as a 3D printer, laser cutter, CNC router, solderingiron, and SolidWorks. Interestingly, although enhanced fabrication skills was a key learningobjective, no students indicated that this was a primary reason to enroll in the course, nor didthey view fabrication skills as directly benefitting them in either college coursework or in theengineering profession. Although they believed the construction experience might help with asenior capstone project, they saw fabrication as disparate from engineering practice, which theyviewed as heavily focused on theory and application. Rather, they believed the soft skillsembedded in the project – such as time management, scheduling, and communication – were thekey takeaways for
Paper ID #15776Comparison of Students’ Outcome to Different Types of Project Based Ser-vice Learning Experiences for CEE Senior DesignDr. Dan Budny P.E., University of Pittsburgh Dr. Dan Budny joined the University of Pittsburgh faculty as Academic Director of the Freshman Pro- grams and an Associate Professor in Civil Engineering in January 2000. Prior to that time he served as Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Freshman Programs at Purdue University. He holds a B.S. and M.S. degree from Michigan Technological University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. degree from Michigan State University. His research has focused on
Paper ID #11739Impacts of Service-Learning Projects on the Technical and Professional En-gineering Confidence of First Year Engineering StudentsDr. Matthew Siniawski, Loyola Marymount University Dr. Matthew T. Siniawski is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Loyola Marymount University. He has advised over 40 different senior capstone project design teams since 2004, and is particularly interested in the design of assistive devices for children with disabilities. He is a an active proponent of service-learning and is interested in understanding how such experiences impact the technical
23.835.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 It’s all about relationship – expanding relational learning opportunities in a community engagement project experienceIntroductionIt pays to think big for student project experiences - not in terms of project scope but in terms oflearning opportunities and overall impact. A diverse body of research, as well as 15 years ofpersonal experience with capstone projects and extracurricular student projects, has shown thatthe overall impact of a student project grows through the establishment of relationships thattranscend boundaries. In our ongoing program development, we have worked to create a rangeof relational learning opportunities for
electives and through capstone projects. As a part of thecurriculum, students participate in a three semester capstone sequence that consists of a projectbased junior design course, followed by a yearlong industry sponsored design experience.Originally, the program proposed a capstone model of incorporating Junior students into onesemester of the senior capstone course, but quickly determined students (Juniors and Seniorsalike) were not well prepared to interact with industry clients (whom are financial sponsors andact as clients for each project). As a result, the Junior semester of the capstone course is now itsown standalone course that is taught during the spring semester each year.Course Design and ExecutionThe junior level course in its
undergraduate program at the University of ColoradoBoulder piloted an innovative engineering design course available to students in all engineeringdisciplines (link to course site, including examples of student projects:https://www.colorado.edu/eplus/courses/geen-2400-engineering-projects-community). The purposeof this course is to provide engineering students with the next step in a sequence of hands-on,team-based, interdisciplinary engineering design courses and create a natural progression between afirst-year projects course and senior capstone course. The University already offers anentrepreneurial design course option for juniors but the second-year of coursework was lacking arelated course option. Based on research around project-based service