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Design for Society and the Environment

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Reichle, Old Dominion University; Avery Bang, University of Colorado; Carol Considine, Old Dominion University

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2009-1875: INTERNATIONAL SERVICE-LEARNING PROJECTS FORSENIOR CAPSTONE PROJECTSScott Reichle, Old Dominion University Scott L. Reichle is an Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering Technology at Old Dominion University. His prior work experience includes work within the construction industry, engineering design and approximately 10 years as an attorney handling a wide range of matters including construction law. He has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech, a M.S. in Civil Engineering from Old Dominion University and a Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School in New Orleans. He is also a registered Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia.Avery Bang, University of

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen W. Laguette, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2012-3439: ASSESSMENT OF PROJECT COMPLETION FOR CAP-STONE DESIGN PROJECTSMr. Stephen W. Laguette, University of California, Santa Barbara Stephen Laguette is currently a lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in the College of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) and the Technology Management pro- gram, and is responsible for the undergraduate M.E. capstone design program. He received his B.S., M.S. in M.E. from the University of California, Los Angeles. His professional career has included executive research and development management positions with a number of medical device companies. He has been responsible for the creation of complex medical devices with more than 15

Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taskin Padir, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Fred Looft, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; William Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Michael Ciaraldi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Eben Cobb, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kenneth Stafford, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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semester of 2008, the program is the fourth largest discipline at theinstitution in terms of freshman enrollment. At the core of the curriculum are four signaturecourses called Unified Robotics I-IV. The educational objective of these courses is to introducestudents to the multidisciplinary theory and practice of robotics engineering, integrating thefields of computer science, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. In addition totaking these and other courses, it is a requirement that all WPI undergraduates, regardless ofdiscipline, complete a senior-level project in their major field of study called Major QualifyingProject (MQP). This paper discusses the capstone design experience within the context of ournew RBE degree program

Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yuyi Lin, University of Missouri

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AC 2010-1370: LEARNING FROM RENEWABLE ENERGY RELATEDCAPSTONE PROJECTSYuyi Lin, University of Missouri Page 15.835.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Learning from Energy Conversion Related Capstone ProjectsAbstractStudents’ capstone-design projects are more and more focused on renewable energy generationand conversion due to ever-increasing energy consumption and a concern for environmentalprotection. The initial challenge arises from the first step in any design process -- how to justifyworking on energy-related topics given severe constraints on time and other resources in atypical capstone project. Since many topics and problems related to renewable energy

Conference Session

Capstone Pedgagogy

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Stephen Andrew Wilkerson P.E., York College of Pennsylvania; Stephen Andrew Gadsden, University of Guelph; Elyse Hill

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Paper ID #29793Drones for a Project-Based Learning (PBL) Capstone DesignDr. Stephen Andrew Wilkerson P.E., York College of Pennsylvania Stephen Wilkerson (swilkerson@ycp.edu) received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1990 in Mechanical Engineering. His Thesis and initial work was on underwater explosion bubble dynamics and ship and submarine whipping. After graduation he took a position with the US Army where he has been ever since. For the first decade with the Army he worked on notable programs to include the M829A1 and A2 that were first of a kind composite saboted munition. His travels have taken him to

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farid Farahmand, Sonoma State University; Kirsten M. Ely, Sonoma State University

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and non-business courses. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Generating Start-up Relevance in Capstone Projects1. IntroductionAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) requires students to complete acapstone design experience that prepares them for engineering practice through team-basedprojects incorporating the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work [1]- [4].While capstone course pedagogy differs widely from one program to another, in all cases,students are expected, through the process of completing the capstone project, to understanddesign constraints, such as economic factors, safety, reliability, ethics, and social impact. Inaddition, students are

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Theodor Freiheit, University of Calgary; Julian Wood, University of Calgary

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2007-778: AN ALGORITHM FOR PROJECT ASSIGNMENT IN CAPSTONEDESIGNTheodor Freiheit, University of CalgaryJulian Wood, University of Calgary Page 12.196.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 An Algorithm for Project Assignment in Capstone DesignAbstractThis paper presents an algorithm to automate the assignment of students to project teams.Students bid on a limited set of choices of the projects being offered. The algorithm thenattempts to place students into projects such that the overall project assignment solution providesthe highest ‘satisfaction’. Satisfaction is defined by a scoring methodology for assigningstudents to their preferred project. The

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jheng-Wun Su, University of Missouri; Zhengwei Nie, University of Missouri; Jiamin Wang, University of Missouri - Columbia; Yuyi Lin P.E., University of Missouri

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electronic content. We also encounter difficulty with insufficientenrollment of students from a specific major or skill to make an interdisciplinary design team.Several case studies illustrate our lessons learned, and plans to do more and bettermultidisciplinary senior capstone design projects for the future.IntroductionMixing students from different departments in the College of Engineering, and from differentcolleges such as Business and Law, into senior capstone design teams, has been a practice forsome years [1,2]. Many engineering educators have employed combining students fromEngineering and other academics disciplines in senior capstone design courses [3-6]. Someeducators believe engineering schools should not be divided into disciplines and

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mansoor Nasir, Lawrence Technological University; Darrell K. Kleinke P.E., University of Detroit Mercy; Molly McClelland, University of Detroit Mercy

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Engineering Education, 2016  Multidisciplinary Patient-Centered Capstone Senior Design ProjectsAbstractCapstone design projects are the culmination of the student learning process at the undergraduatelevel and provide an opportunity for students to work on real-world, open-ended problems.Following the engineering design process, students discover needs, propose solutions, buildprototypes and test the implemented design. There are many models that exist in the exactimplementation of this student experience, which satisfies many of the outcomes required by theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), ranging from need-based designto basic research.1 A common model for biomedical engineering

Conference Session

Design and the Capstone Experience

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory K Watkins P.E., California State University, Chico

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Peer Project Management for Capstone Design TeamsAbstractThe mechanical and mechatronic engineering programs at California State University Chicoconclude with a robust, externally funded, two-semester capstone design experience. Students inboth majors work in interdisciplinary teams on year-long design projects sponsored by industrialpartners. Project teams are assigned a faculty advisor whose role [1] is multi-faceted, but doesnot include day-to-day project management or responsibility for project success.Design projects in industry typically have an assigned project manager (PM) with responsibilityfor overall project success as well as a lead role in initiating, planning, executing, monitoring,and controlling the project

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jon-Michael Hardin, Virginia Military Institute; Gerald Sullivan, Virginia Military Institute

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Polytechnic Institute in 1987 and 1991 respectively. He has held teaching positions at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, and the University of Vermont. Prior to joining the faculty at the Virginia Military Institute in the fall of 2004, Dr. Sullivan was employed by JMAR Inc. where he was involved in research and development of next generation lithography systems for the semiconductor industry. Page 11.1426.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Vertical-Integration Framework for Capstone Design ProjectsThe importance of Capstone design projects within an undergraduate engineeringcurriculum is

Conference Session

Design Across Disciplines

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hosni I. Abu-Mulaweh, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Hossein M. Oloomi, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Donald W. Mueller Jr. P.E., Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Omobola Ayoyimika Thomas, Cummins Filtration, Inc.

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. Omobola Thomas graduated from Purdue University in 2011 with a bachelor’s of science degree in elec- trical engineering with highest distinction. She currently works as a Test Engineer for Cummins Filtration, Inc., and is also working towards her master’s degree in electrical engineering. Her Interest areas in elec- trical engineering include automatic control systems and digital signal processing. She enjoys watching movies, traveling, and reading. Page 25.74.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 A Multidisciplinary Capstone Senior Project: Interactive

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew A. Carr, U.S. Naval Academy; Michael V. Cristiano; Patrick Caton, U.S. Naval Academy

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2012-4707: THE NEWCOMEN PUMPING ENGINE: A CAPSTONEDESIGN PROJECTDr. Matthew A. Carr, U.S. Naval Academy Matthe Carr is Permanent Military Professor of mechanical engineering and a nuclear submarine Officer.Michael V. CristianoProf. Patrick Caton, U.S. Naval Academy Page 25.1325.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 The Newcomen Pumping Engine: A Capstone Design ProjectabstractThe purpose of this article is to describe the undergraduate mechanical engineering capstonedesign project of building an operating and instrumented scale model Newcomen Engine.Thomas Newcomen built

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wael Mokhtar, Grand Valley State University

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2010-921: CAPSTONE SENIOR PROJECT MENTORING AND STUDENTCREATIVITYWael Mokhtar, Grand Valley State University Page 15.259.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Capstone Senior Project Mentoring and Student CreativityAbstractAfter the 2000 ABET accreditation changes, many Engineering Schools expanded or startedcapstone senior projects to meet the realization aspect of the engineering education. It is offeredin several versions including one and two-semester course. The capstone project offers anintegrated experience for the senior students to apply their engineering knowledge to solve aresearch or applied open-ended problem. The typical project includes

Conference Session

Design Teamwork

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen W. Laguette, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #5904Team Leadership on Capstone Design Project TeamsMr. Stephen W. Laguette, University of California, Santa Barbara Stephen Laguette is currently a Lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the College of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) and the Technology Management Pro- gram and is responsible for the undergraduate ME Capstone Design program. He received his BS, MS in ME from the University of California, Los Angeles. His professional career has included executive Research and Development management positions with a number of medical device companies. He has

Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brent Guenther, Wright State University; Bruce Rahn, Wright State University; Mark Falknor, Wright State University; Adam Kelly, Wright State University; Bin Wang, Wright State University; Zhiqiang Wu, Wright State University

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project was measured by post-coursequestionnaires, course evaluations and student interviews conducted by the department chairbefore graduation. All students expressed positive learning experiences after participating in thisinterdisciplinary project and indicated that the learning outcomes were successfully achieved. I. IntroductionWith engineering students facing increasing distractions, it has become more and morechallenging to design and create attractive means to recruit and retain them. This paper reports aninterdisciplinary collaborative capstone senior design project for electrical and mechanicalengineering students to bring real-time videos from a High Altitude Balloon (HAB) to a groundstation. The HAB project has proved to be a unique

Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Dawson, York College of Pennsylvania; Stephen Kuchnicki, York College of Pennsylvania

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Design in Engineering Education

to test the abilities students have gainedover their college careers and to provide a design experience that simulates real-worldengineering. An important factor in giving students a valuable Capstone Design experience isthe selection of an appropriate project. A good project for this purpose should have appropriatetechnical rigor and allow students to focus as much as possible on engineering design rather thanon logistical activities like fundraising. Further, the work done by students in the course shouldbe assessable, both for the purposes of accreditation and for assignment of grades. Additionally,the deadlines imposed must be appropriate, and evaluation criteria need to be established.One solution for many of the project planning

Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Wahlstrom, Argonne National Laboratory; Frank Falcone, Argonne National Laboratory; Doug Nelson, Virginia Tech

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Design in Engineering Education

beengreatly reduced so that it is feasible for the two companies to sponsor HIL systems for all of theschools.Recommendations and SuggestionsThe use of HIL can be very useful in research situations that require vehicle control. It isrecommended that universities that are doing either vehicle system research or vehiclecomponent control research (engines, motors, fuel cells, etc) explore the usage of HIL in theirlabs. Developing an HIL simulator is a great research project in itself and will enable manyfuture projects in a much shorter timeframe yielding significant results in laboratoryexperiments. Page 15.767.10Bibliography1. Hanselmann, Herbert

Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Stephen Bitar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Robert Labonté, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Design in Engineering Education

PolytechnicInstitute determined that, while the vast majority of capstone design projects satisfied ourrequirements for Capstone Design, there were several disturbing trends. Specifically, it was noticed that students were lacking the skills to perform serious designsynthesis; they were not adequately addressing issues of quality, safety, reliability andmaintainability; little attention was being paid to issues associated with economics; students werehaving difficulty understanding how different areas of Electrical Engineering related to eachother; and significant amounts of faculty time were spent teaching project teams the designprocess. To correct these problems, a course was developed which focused on teaching students,during their second

Conference Session

Design Projects

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cesar Luongo, Florida A&M/Florida State University; Chiang Shih, Florida A&M/Florida State University

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Design in Engineering Education

2006-717: SENIOR DESIGN PROJECTS IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING – ACASE STUDY OF CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE WITH STRONG INDUSTRIALPARTICIPATIONCesar Luongo, Florida A&M/Florida State UniversityChiang Shih, Florida A&M/Florida State University Page 11.1116.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Senior Design Projects in Mechanical Engineering -- A Case Study of Capstone Experience with Strong Industrial ParticipationAbstractThe Department of Mechanical Engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering adoptedan integrated curriculum in the late 90s. The curriculum features a capstone one-year seniordesign course in which students work in teams tackling

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University

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Design in Engineering Education

, particularly capstone courses, that has received little attention is how to characterize andchoose suitable design projects.To better understand what aspects of design projects lead to successful capstone designexperiences for students, six years of evaluation data on electrical engineering capstone designprojects at a large, public research university were reviewed. Additionally, transcripts from fouryears of a capstone design course end-of-semester “after action review” by faculty, students, andteaching assistants were reviewed. From this work several characteristics of “successful”capstone projects emerged. While a definition of success is, of course, highly dependent onprogram specific outcomes, for this study success was defined as a project that

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Hitt, United States Military Academy; Daisie Boettner, United States Military Academy; Stephen Suhr, United States Military Academy; Joel Dillon, United States Military Academy

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Design in Engineering Education

provided about the efficacy of those changes. In theinitial offering of the course, students were assigned to their senior capstone project teams andthe formal design process was taught “just in time” for students to apply the process to theircapstone projects. Based on both student and instructor assessments from the initial offering, thecourse was revised to teach the design process in the context of two simple projects (design aportable illumination device and design a device to store a West Point class ring) followed by thesenior capstone project. The illumination device project served as an in-class examplethroughout formal instruction and the ring storage device project provided context for students‟individual out-of-class work (homework

Conference Session

Capstone Pedgagogy

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Joyce Blandino P.E., Virginia Military Institute; Jon-michael Hardin P.E., Virginia Military Institute

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design and fabricate a low-cost transtibial prosthetic limb.Capstone projects typically span one to two semesters. In many cases, a single student designgroup is only able to concentrate on the design aspects of a capstone design project conductedwithin a single semester. In two-semester projects, the second semester typically provides thesame student design group the necessary time to build and test the design they completed duringthe first semester. Unlike these typical capstone projects, the authors’ prosthetic capstone designproject spanned four years and involved multiple student design groups. Students in the first-yeargroup conducted a feasibility study and built a basic prototype of the design. The iterativedesign process then started

Conference Session

Capstone Pedgagogy

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Andrew P. Ritenour, Western Carolina University; Chip W. Ferguson, Western Carolina University; Patrick Gardner, Western Carolina University; Brett Ronald Banther, Western Carolina University; Jeffrey L. Ray, Western Carolina University

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Paper ID #29689Collaborative Project-Based Learning Capstone for Engineering andEngineering Technology StudentsDr. Andrew P. Ritenour, Western Carolina University Andrew Ritenour is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering + Technology at West- ern Carolina University (WCU). Prior to joining WCU in 2018, he spent a decade in industry managing and developing innovative technologies across a broad spectrum of applications: high voltage transistors for energy-efficient power conversion, radio frequency (RF) surface acoustic wave (SAW) filters for mo- bile phones, and flexible paper-like displays for e

Conference Session

Capstone Pedgagogy

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Nicholas A Baine P.E., Grand Valley State University; Karl Brakora, Grand Valley State University; Christopher P. Pung P.E., Grand Valley State University

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, design processes and student teams. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Evaluating ABET Student Outcome (5) in a Multidisciplinary Capstone Project SequenceAbstractABET has published a revised list of student outcomes detailed under ABET General Criterion 3,which replaces outcomes (a) through (k) with outcomes (1) through (7). The revised studentoutcomes place greater emphasis on measuring students’ ability to consider a wide range of factorsin engineering situations and to address problems in multidisciplinary teams. The wide scope ofoutcome (5) presents unique challenges. This paper describes an assessment method for ABETstudent outcome (5), which assesses

Conference Session

Capstone Design Practices

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University; Andrew Gouldstone, Northeastern University

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Paper ID #28734Are Creative Capstone Design Projects Successful? Relating projectcreativity to course outcomes.Dr. Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University Dr. Smyser is a Teaching Professor and the Lab Director of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University. Her research focuses on lab and design pedagogy.Prof. Andrew Gouldstone, Northeastern University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Are Creative Capstone Design Projects Successful? Relating project creativity to course outcomes.In the past ten years, numerous papers have

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Schmaltz, Western Kentucky University

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Paper ID #7334Delivering the Senior Capstone Project: Comparing Year-Long, Single Semesterand Hybrid ApproachesDr. Kevin Schmaltz, Western Kentucky University Kevin Schmaltz has been at Western Kentucky University for ten years, after serving as the Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Lake Superior State University. Before entering the academic world, he was a project engineer for Shell Oil responsible for the design and installation of oil and gas production facilities for offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. He has a combined 23 years of experience as an engineer in industry and in teaching. He teaches a

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Design Teams

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

B. Matthew Michaelis, Eastern Washington University; Heechang (alex) Bae, Eastern Washington University

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Washington University Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering Technology Program Department of Engineering & Design c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Optimizing Capstone Team FormationAbstractFor senior capstone teams, team composition is one of the primary factors in student satisfactionand project success. Previous team formation were done manually after students submitted theirtop five choices from the available projects and were time consuming and ineffective. Toimprove team composition and reduce formation time, mixed-integer linear programming isutilized to optimize the team formation process. The presented approach allows control of

Conference Session

Student Evaluation in Design Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Krista M Kecskemety, Ohio State University; Bob Rhoads, Ohio State University; Clifford A. Whitfield, Ohio State University; Jacob T. Allenstein, Ohio State University

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multi- manages both first year engineering students in the First Year Experience Program and senior capstone students going through the Multidisciplinary Capstone Program. Outside teaching, he is also a graduate research associate (GRA) with a research focus on the aerodynamics of jet engines, jet engine simulators, and jet engine testing facilities. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Capstone Advisor Valuation of a Multidisciplinary Capstone ProgramIntroductionReal-world engineering projects typically lend themselves to multidisciplinary teams. Industryprojects are multidisciplinary in nature and require interdisciplinary teams and

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Capstone Design Projects

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yupeng Luo, California State University, Fresno; Silvana Polgar, California State University, Fresno; Wei Wu, California State University, Fresno

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Design for Homeless (DfH): A capstone experienceAbstractCapstone projects are usually designed to promote critical thinking, problem-solving, andcreativity using the knowledge and skills students acquire in their coursework. This paperpresents the initial findings of a two-semester-long, industry-facilitated, and collaborativecapstone project in Spring and Fall 2018. A team of construction management and interiordesign students at California State University, Fresno was tasked to design and build a temporaryhome prototype for a local homeless shelter to raise awareness of an urgent social and economicissue in the community. The new design aims to create a more comfortable and upliftingenvironment for the homeless. The project provides an