vehicleof interactive device design. Students having a general familiarity with the products of electricalengineering engage with the underlying tools and technologies that make such products possible.By focusing the class project on the design of a digital music player, we aim to attract a broaddemographic, and to illustrate how human-centered design considerations can to be integratedinto the system design process.We present this course description—which encompasses motivation, implementation and as-sessment—to provide insights and inspiration for those looking to teach similar courses.1 IntroductionBuild a better music player—yourself! is how Interactive Device Design is advertised to studentsconsidering a concentration in engineering. The
Paper ID #22177Work in Progress: Building a Functional Cardiograph Over Four SemestersDr. Gail Baura, Loyola University Chicago Dr. Gail Baura is a Professor and Director of Engineering Science at Loyola University Chicago. While creating the curriculum for this new program, she embedded multi-semester projects to increase student engagement and performance. Previously, she was a Professor of Medical Devices at Keck Graduate In- stitute of Applied Life Sciences, which is one of the Claremont Colleges. She received her BS Electrical Engineering degree from Loyola Marymount University, her MS Electrical Engineering and MS
Designettes in Capstone: Characterizing the Impact of Early Design Experiences in Capstone Education with Emphasis on Designette Project Choice Cory A. Cooper,a Michael L. Anderson,a Daniel D. Jensen,a Joseph M. Fulton,a Kristin L. Woodb a United States Air Force Academy, Colorado, USA b Singapore University of Technology and Design, SingaporeAbstractFull engineering design experiences often require months to accomplish. In an effort toincorporate design, design thinking, and design innovation into curriculum without consumingextensive time, the use of shortened design
Paper ID #12099Mini-Design Projects in Capstone: Initial Design Experiences to EnhanceStudents’ Implementation of Design MethodologyMajor Cory A Cooper, United States Air Force Academy Major Cory Cooper is currently an Assistant Professor of Systems Engineering and Capstone Coordinator at the US Air Force Academy (USAFA) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He holds a PhD an MSc in Systems Engineering from the Technical University of Delft and the Air Force Institute of Technology respectively. He has held various developmental engineering and program management positions in the US Air Force, to include Deputy Director for
AC 2012-5247: A NEW VISION FOR ENGINEERING DESIGN INSTRUC-TION: ON THE INNOVATIVE SIX COURSE DESIGN SEQUENCE OFJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITYDr. Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University Olga Pierrakos is an Associate Professor and founding faculty member in the School of Engineering, which is graduating its inaugural class May 2012, at James Madison University. Pierrakos holds a B.S. in engineering science and mechanics, an M.S. in engineering mechanics, and a Ph.D. in biomedical en- gineering from Virginia Tech. Her interests in engineering education research center around recruitment and retention, engineering design instruction and methodology, learning through service (NSF EFELTS project), understanding engineering
Paper ID #11107Capstone and Faculty Mentors/Advisors/CoachesDr. Gene Dixon, East Carolina University Gene Dixon is a tenured Associate Professor at East Carolina where he teaches aspiring engineers at the undergraduate level. Previously he has held positions with Union Carbide, Chicago Bridge & Iron, E.I. DuPont & deNemours, Westinghouse Electric, CBS, Viacom and Washington Group. His work expe- rience includes project engineer, program assessor, senior shift manager, TQM coach, and production reactor outage planner, remediation engineer. He gives presentations as a corporate trainer, a teacher, and a
failure mechanisms at the micro-scale. In 1998 he received a NSF CAREER award to study thermal barrier coatings and was later active in studying dura- bility of solid oxide fuel cell materials. After one year at the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics in Holzkirchen, Germany, in July of 2015, Dr. Walter joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. At UCI Dr. Walter teaches regular MAE classes and helps to manage the senior projects program.Prof. Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine Natascha Trellinger Buswell is an assistant professor of teaching in the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of
CapstoneDesign course where teams work on company-sponsored projects. Teams include bothengineering and non-engineering students and projects include product, process, and systemdesign opportunities. This active learning opportunity allows students to apply their academic,professional, and practical skills to real-world problem solving. This two-semester programbegins with a seven-week pre-capstone course. During this time the capstone coordinators formteams based on student preference and disciplines appropriate to the project scope. Thecoordinators assign a faculty advisor and identify an industry liaison to provide leadership andcoaching throughout the project.The program enhances critical thinking skills by providing open-ended projects. By
. Page 25.590.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Evaluation of Design Work and the Achievement of Learning Outcomes in Senior Capstone CoursesAbstractThe two-semester Mechanical Engineering Capstone course at Brigham Young University(BYU) was created in 1990 to help students learn a structured design process and assist them indeveloping design skills for the practice of engineering. Course outcomes were establishedbased on stakeholder input and students receive classroom instruction as well as do projectdesign work on projects provided by industry sponsors. To date more than 575 design and buildprojects have been completed for more than 300 industry project sponsors
Rechargeable Electric VehicleAbstractThere is a need to improve the efficiency and reduce tailpipe emissions while maintaining theaffordability of vehicles that are currently used for daily commuting. As petroleum depositsdwindle, automobile populations soar, gas prices inflate and cities become choked withcombustion emissions, the internal combustion engine (ICE) is increasingly becoming the victimof its own success. Assuming that private automobiles continue to be a vital link in modernsocieties, they must become cleaner and more energy efficient.Students working toward a baccalaureate degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology at theUniversity of Cincinnati are required to complete a “Design, Build, and Test” Senior CapstoneDesign Project. During
stage. In the course, these process stages and visual steps are used tostructure and facilitate a semester long, student-directed, teacher-facilitated design project inwhich students are asked to design an innovative, inventive, or inspirational idea. Students arefree to choose a project focus in their area of interest. Students in the Digital Media program tendto choose topics such as: character, product, and game design, and architectural, interior, andenvironmental visualization. Self motivation, individuation, and actualization are pedagogicaldrivers that dramatically improve the students’ work ethic and academic performance.ScopeThe scope of this paper is intended to provide an outline of a design process and to describevisual thinking
Stevens Institute of Technology. He is coordinator of core engineering design courses in Freshman & Sophomore years. Prior to his current position, Blicharz worked for 25 years in project management and systems engineering in the aerospace & telecommunications industries. He has a B.E in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Fairleigh Dickinson University.Bernard Gallois, Stevens Institute of Technology Bernard Gallois is George Meade Bond Professor of Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he was the founding dean of the Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering. He received the Diplôme d' Ingénieur Civil des Mines at the École
Students in Engineering Design through Engineers Without Borders ProjectsAbstractIt is important that first year engineering students learn that the engineering design processinvolves more than mathematics and physics. To accomplish this, students choose designprojects from a variety of disciplines, developed with Engineers Without Borders (Canada) andsituated in either a developing country or a remote area of Canada. All projects required, not onlya technical solution, but also consideration of ethics, health and safety, economics, and impact onthe community. Among the design projects were a rain-water harvesting system and ceramicwater filter for villagers in Cambodia and a press for extracting oil and producing biodiesel
) platform. The primary design requirement of the projectwas the need for the parachute system to be able to deploy in the event ofcommunications malfunction, loss of control or any other critical failure that couldimpact the safety of persons or property on the ground. Project requirements stipulatedthat the design focused primarily on safe, successful recovery of the given airframe.Team members were given the opportunity to suggest alternative materials or changes indesign that may yield increased performance benefits for future prototypes.Students utilized a model Piper Cub and were able to meet the minimum designspecifications articulated by the customers. The aircraft would fly with a suitable centerof gravity (CG) and could manually deploy the
. Passionate about the intersection of education and technology, her dual degree in computer science and education has helped her to contribute to projects such as automatic essay grading and Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s App Inventor, a blocks-based programming language. She is inspired to help people of all ages enjoy learning. Page 26.1455.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Ta-Da! You’re a design thinker! Validating the DesignShop as a Model for Teaching Design Thinking to Non-Designers and Achieving Systemic Re-Design in the Education
CourseAbstractEngineering Design is a project-based first-year student course that introduces systematicengineering design methods. Using the engineering design cycle, students are walked througheach phase of the cycle using real world examples. Two faculty members introduced asustainability theme into the existing project-based course to around 180 students (approximatelyone third of the incoming freshman). With the university’s mission to become a more sustainablyaware campus, this piloted theme synchronized well with long term goals. Thematicsustainability lessons that focused on water, materials, and alternative energy technologies wereintroduced throughout the course alongside traditional methods used to teach the engineeringdesign cycle and culminated with a
three departments in the Frank H.Dotterweich College of Engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville have incorporatedengineering design instruction and hands-on design projects in the last two years as part of NSFgrant award #1928611. A primary objective of this grant is to increase the retention andpersistence of minorities in the engineering programs by incorporating high-impact enrichmentactivities into courses early in the student’s academic career. A logical course to include high-impact activities for first-year students is the introduction to engineering courses in thedepartments, which are titled “Engineering as a Career” (GEEN 1201), within the Frank H.Dotterweich College of Engineering.This work presents the approach used for a
-enabled frequent feedback. Prior to her role and Director of Instructional Effectiveness, she worked as the Education Project Manager for the NSF-funded JTFD Engineering faculty development program, as a high school math and science teacher, and as an Assistant Principal and Instructional & Curriculum Coach.Dr. Ryan J Meuth, Arizona State University Dr. Ryan Meuth is a Freshmen Engineering Senior Lecturer in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, and also teaches courses in Computer Engineering for the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering at Arizona State University.Dr. Brent James Sebold, Arizona State University Dr. Brent Sebold is an expert faculty designer and administrator of
recentlyestablished interdisciplinary capstone design experiences. Design experiences involvingstudents of differing engineering disciplines offer the possibility of more complex,meaningful projects and introduce traditional engineering students to the terminology andtechnology of related disciplines. At the same time, the value of undergraduates trainedin the Systems Engineering and Systems Engineering Management disciplines has beenrealized both by industry and the Department of Defense. While capstone designexperiences which involve interaction among students schooled in different engineeringand engineering technology disciplines are becoming more common, those which alsoinclude students trained in Systems Engineering and Systems Engineering Managementare
return to graduate school. She teaches design and entrepreneurship courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her work is often cross-disciplinary, collaborating with colleagues from engineering, education, psychology, and industrial design.Prof. Seda Yilmaz, Iowa State UniversityDr. Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder Dr. Daniel Knight is the Program Assessment and Research Associate with the Design Center Colorado in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Science at University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Knight’s duties include assessment, program evaluation, education research, and teambuilding for the Center’s hands-on, industry-sponsored design projects. Dr
an Assistant Professor of Writing Arts at Rowan University and has been a part of Rowan’s Sophomore Clinic team since 1998. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Page 11.281.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 BOTTLE ROCKETS AND PARAMETRIC DESIGN IN A DIVERGING-CONVERGING DESIGN STRATEGYAbstractThe Sophomore Engineering Clinic covers two semesters in an eight-semester design sequence.The course integrates engineering with writing and public speaking. In the past the course hasused two semester-long design projects to teach design through a series of
technology in a professional setting.Within engineering education, wikis have been used in several ways at several different levels.One example is the creation of ePortfolios in a freshman engineering design course8. Thestudents were given writing assignments in which they reflected on the human implications ofdesign. Another example can be found in a team-based capstone design project in which thewiki was used to document social knowledge and assess group performance9. A third example isa student-written online textbook5. In a senior level chemical engineering process controlscourse, an open-source text was written, edited, and reviewed by the students to allow them tolearn the course content though teaching it.This paper describes the use of a
projects, one in the fall and one in the spring. An example from the fall 2003 and2004 semesters was the Hoistinator project. Student teams of 4-5 were challenged to build acrane that could lift at least 420 pounds, using no more than 75 cubic inches of aluminum and 50cubic inches of plastic. Teams would receive a score that was directly proportional to theamount of weight lifted, and inversely proportional to the amount of material used. The projectwas successful in many respects but there was room for improvement in the student’s overallapproach to the design problem. Students were generally successful at using statics to predicttheir crane’s performance, but the cranes they designed and built were generally not welloptimized. Many student teams
and light gauge steel design and construction. Page 13.1130.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Sustainable Research and Design in a Civil Engineering Senior Design CourseAbstractIn an effort to help students understand the broader impacts of land development, a significantsustainability component was added to a capstone senior design project course in a small civilengineering program. This year-long course traditionally involves students completingstraightforward designs in the areas of structural, transportation, geotechnical, and municipalenvironmental engineering. In a
Bioengineering Capstone DesignAbstractStudy abroad course-work presents unique collaboration potential with capstone engineeringdesign, specifically as a source for student projects. Project-based instruction of bioengineeringcapstone design hinges upon engaging the students’ interest and commitment early in the project.Strategies to achieve this level of student commitment can include encouraging student-originated project ideas, seeking projects from real-world external clients in research andindustry, or offering instructor-originated projects orchestrated specifically to elicit studentinterest. Another alternative, soliciting student-originated engineering design projects derivedfrom study abroad courses, allows for practical projects with real
R’ Us, Home Depot, Sears and the wireless charging system recently released for Tesla vehicles through Plugless Power. His specialties include systems engineering, design, and project management for new product development. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with a Mechanical Specialty (’04) and a Master’s degree in Engineering with a Systems Specialty (’09), both from the Colorado School of Mines.Dr. Kristine R. Csavina, Colorado School of Mines Dr. Kristy Csavina is a Teaching Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. She has her bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Dayton and her doctorate in Bioengineering from Arizona State
and project success [40]. It was found that when descriptions are poor, theproject tends to result in a cost overrun or failure. Purpose, overview, and general context ofrequirements were ample in normal projects and poor in overrun projects. Knauss, (2009)investigated the impact of requirement quality on project success as well [38]. Using metrics onrequirement quality such as # Critical Types, Grammar, Rules of Expression, Ambiguous Terms,Existing Identifier, and Unexpected Tech Terms, the research question was investigated. Using apoint system to rank requirement quality, it was found that projects that scored more than 44points were successful, while requirements scoring below 40 points were not satisfactory. When examining design
undergraduate students. In order to effectively enhance creativity, tools have to bedeveloped to map it. Here an attempt will be made to differentiate team creativity fromindividual creativity. Individual creativity here will relate to the process of generating ideas onthe basis of learning types and brainstorming techniques. Team creativity will relate to theadditional creativity, which is generated through synergy and team dynamics. In this study, theauthors extended the use of design notebook used in design project to research notebook used ina research project on the selection of freshman design projects. For the research notebooks, acoding rubric will be constructed that is used describe and quantify the creativity instances thatoccur in the
-autonomous operation and vehicle response tosensors (such as an ultrasonic distance sensor) under computer control. This flexibilityallows this electric car platform to support a wide range of future experimentation anddesign projects. Educational resources (lab exercises, team projects) developed tosupport this activity will be presented.1. Introduction Penn State University was awarded an NSF grant ‘Toys and MathematicalOptions for Retention in Engineering (Toys ‘N More) in 2008. This is a five year grantextending to 2013. This project is being conducted at the University Park campus, as wellas fourteen other Penn State campuses throughout Pennsylvania. The overall goal of thegrant is to improve the numbers of students enrolled in retention
which several of the student authors have been involved. Dr. Beyerlein has been active in research projects involving engine testing, engine heat release modeling, design of curricula for active , design pedagogy, and assessment of professional skills.Dr. Matthew John Swenson P.E., University of Idaho, Moscow After graduating from Oregon State University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1999, I im- mediately pursued a career in industry, quickly excelling and continuously accepting roles of increasing responsibility. The first five years, I worked at GK Machine, Inc., a small company south of Portland, designing customized agricultural equipment. Next, I worked at Hyster-Yale Material Handling, most re