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
instructional redesign process. Two majorcharacteristics of threshold concepts, integrativity and transformativity were used to identifyhorizontal alignment candidate-concept for the highway design process.Using concept maps generated as guides through the integrativity of learning associated with thehorizontal alignment, several adjustments to the structure of lecture materials and project taskswere made. In addition, reflective assessment items were administered after each redesignedinstructional task and at the end of the course. Students’ answers to these reflective assessmentshelped identifying trends associated with the transformativity of horizontal alignment in thecontext of highway design. The analysis of students’ reflective assessment
AC 2010-1327: WATER TURBINE: IMPROVING A PROJECT FORREINFORCING MACHINE COMPONENT DESIGNHarold Henderson, United States Miliary Academy MAJ Harold Henderson graduated as an Armor officer from the United States Military Academy in 1998. He has served in the U.S. Army in the United States and Iraq. He holds a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Auburn University. His research interests include unmanned ground vehicles, energy harvesting, instructional technology and distance education. He is currently serving as an Instructor in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at West Point.Joel Dillon, United States Military Academy
AC 2010-126: DESIGN OF A BUNGEE LAUNCH SYSTEM TO SUPPORT AKITE-BASED LIFTING PLATFORM FOR AERIAL IMAGINGIbibia Dabipi, University of Maryland, Eastern ShoreChristopher Hartman, University of Maryland, Eastern ShoreJames B. Burrows-Mcelwain, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore Page 15.355.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010Design of a Bungee Launch System to Support a Kite-Based Lifting Platform for Aerial Imaging Abstract Freshman engineering design students were given the problem of designing a bungee launch system to support a kite-based lifting platform for aerial imaging. The unique nature of the project lies in its support
team began research into the methodof rapid prototyping as a means of production. Rapid prototyping was selected because of theguaranteed tolerances and the efficient manner in which multiple hands-on models could beproduced. The team received funds from the Michigan Space Grant Consortium which were usedto finance the production of this project. The devices were tested against the original designspecifications to evaluate the practicality of rapid prototyping as a method of producing enoughdevices to outfit a classroom.IntroductionThe demand for science, technology, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) occupations hasbeen increasing, which means those interested in pursuing STEM related careers needs to beincreasing as well. Many adolescents
projects, graduate research, three master’s theses and invaluablecommunity exposure for STEM education. In addition to research opportunities, the work withJagBot resulted in the development of a 400-level senior elective engineering class in LabViewand provided justification for University funding of a laboratory based on National Instrumentsdata acquisition systems. This paper describes the design process and the contribution of thestudents to the final JagBot design.2. IntroductionRobots, as much as any other advance in science, epitomize progress. Robots have starred inmotion pictures, are routinely used in industry, and, although they have not become integratedinto society as fast as imagined by science fiction writers, they have been
Paper ID #32618Design Review: A Teaching Tool for Project-based LearningLeandra Ramos, United States Military Academy Leandra Ramos is a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and will report to her first duty station at Fort Drum, NY. She holds a BS degree in civil engineering from USMA (2021).Heather J. Yoshii, United States Military AcademyKyle Beyer, United States Military AcademyMorgan R. Corliss, United States Military AcademyLt. Col. Brad C. McCoy, United States Military Academy Brad C. McCoy is a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army, and currently an Asst. Professor in the De- partment of Civil and
Force Institute of Technology in 1994. Her current research interests include engineering education, student motivation and retention, and the psychology of student teams. She is a retired Lieutenant Colonel and a licensed professional engineer in the State of Florida. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Using Team Time Cards to Encourage Accountability in Senior Design Projects Using Team Time Cards to Encourage Accountability in Senior Design ProjectsAbstractIn senior design projects, it is often a challenge to hold all students on a team accountable fortheir fair share of the work, and the problem becomes worse for large teams. A
AC 2007-2851: IMPACT OF STUDENT SELECTION OF DESIGN PROJECTS ONTEAM PERFORMANCEPeter Orono, Indiana University-Purdue University-IndianapolisStephen Ekwaro-Osire, Texas Tech University Page 12.827.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 IMPACT OF STUDENT SELECTION OF DESIGN PROJECTS ON TEAM PERFORMANCEAbstract In the capstone design courses, the instructor can choose among different strategies ofassigning students to project teams. One of these strategies allows the students select the projectthey would like to work on from a list. This sometimes proceeds in an ad-hoc manner. Currently,literature offers limited research that looks at
AC 2007-1699: USE OF ASSESSMENT SURVEY TO ASSIGN PROJECT TEAMSAND ROLESPromiti Dutta, Columbia UniversityAlexander Haubold, Columbia University Page 12.1526.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Use of Assessment Survey to Assign Project Teams and RolesAbstract:Effective assignment of teams and distribution of tasks within a group is an arduous task.Successful teams display harmony, successfully completed projects, and effective skill utilizationof all members. Weak teams demonstrate ineffective dynamics, poorly completed projects, andunderutilized team members. We propose a method to assign team members and to delegatemembers with equally weighted
AC 2007-758: DESIGN TEAM SKILLS CURRICULUM FOR INTERMEDIATELEVEL PROJECT CLASSSteven Zemke, Gonzaga University Steven Zemke is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Gonzaga University. He teaches design classes at the sophomore, junior, and capstone level. His research pursuits are in the pedagogy of design. Steven received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a dissertation on pedagogy from the University of Idaho in 2005. Prior to teaching, Steven was a design engineer and engineering manager for 25 years.Diane Zemke, Gonzaga University Diane Zemke is a Doctoral Student in the Leadership Studies Program at Gonzaga University. Her interests include pedagogy, paradigms
AC 2008-961: ENGINEERING SENIOR DESIGN PROJECTS TO AIDINDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIESMohamed Samir Hefzy, The University of Toledo Dr. Mohamed Samir Hefzy is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research Administration of the College of Engineering at The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio 43606.Mehdi Pourazady, The University of Toledo Dr. Mehdi Pourazady is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio 43606.Abdollah Aliakbarkhan Afjeh, The University of Toledo Dr. Abdollah Afjeh is Professor and Chair of the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at The University of Toledo, Toledo
AC 2008-1741: SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT: A ROBOTIC SYSTEM USINGSTEREOSCOPIC CAMERAS FOR NAVIGATIONAndrew Willis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Andrew Willis is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He received his B.Sc. in Computer Science and B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic University in Worcester, Massachusetts. After working in industry for four years, Andrew attended graduate school at Brown University where he obtained a Sc.M. in Applied Mathematics and a Sc.M. in Electrical Engineering completing a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences in 2004. He is a member of the ASEE, IEEE
AC 2008-1885: SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE DESIGN PROJECTS IN ANUNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING EDUCATION PROGRAMAmir Rezaei, California State Polytechnic University-PomonaMariappan Jawaharlal, California State Polytechnic University-PomonaJohn Caffrey, California State Polytechnic UniversityKyu-Jung Kim, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona Page 13.1090.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Socially Responsible Design Projects in an Undergraduate Engineering Education ProgramABSTRACT- This work describes several design projects in an undergraduate engineeringprogram which are directed to benefit an individual or a community
AC 2008-1961: A SEMI-AUTOMATIC APPROACH FOR PROJECT ASSIGNMENTIN A CAPSTONE COURSEMark Chang, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Mark L. Chang is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering.Allen Downey, Olin College of Engineering Allen Downey is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. Page 13.99.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 A Semi-Automatic Approach for Project Assignment in a Capstone CourseAbstractThis paper presents a semi-automatic
AC 2008-2381: GROUP SELECTION TECHNIQUES FOR A MECHANICALENGINEERING SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT COURSEGregory Watkins, California State University, Chico Page 13.656.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Group Selection Techniques for a Mechanical Engineering Senior Design Project CourseAbstractThe mechanical engineering program at California State University Chico utilizes a two-semester capstone course in senior design project. It is required that students perform the projectwork in groups, as that is a measured outcome in the course. Assigning students to groups haslong been problematic, with no satisfactory solution despite numerous
AC 2009-1788: PROJECT DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS USINGUNIVERSAL DESIGN LEARNING (UDL)Saeed Monemi, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Dr. Saeed Sean Monemi is currently a Professor and Graduate Program Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, CA (Cal Poly Pomona). He is teaching a broad range of Undergraduate and Graduate level courses in electrical and computer engineering. His research areas are: Algorithms and Complex Computations, Energy Management Environments, Operating Systems, Software Engineering and Robotics. Before that, Dr. Monemi was Senior Associate Research Professor and Research Scientist at
AC 2009-639: FORMING AND MANAGING PROJECT TEAMS IN A LARGECAPSTONE DESIGN COURSEEdward Lumsdaine, Michigan Technological University Dr. Edward Lumsdaine is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Technological University (MTU) and Special Professor of Business, Institute for Enterprise and Innovation, University of Nottingham (UK). For many years he was management consultant at Ford Motor Company in high-tech education and training. In 1994 he received the ASEE Chester F. Carlson Award for innovation in engineering education. He has co-authored books on creative problem solving, engineering design, entrepreneurship and innovation. He has work experience in industry, seven
wafer to interface with the electrical test equipment. During wafertesting, electrical probes are lowered onto the semiconductor wafer and make electricalconnections to the wafer. This paper presents the design and implementation of a probe stationproject that was carried out as a capstone senior design project in School of Engineering at GrandValley State University. The probe station was designed to have a durable, stable base and a 4inch vacuum-assisted hot chuck as a sample stage. A microscope was integrated to view thewafers and to assist in making the electrical connections. In addition, microprobes with theability to probe the wafers of 25om structure were designed. The project team consisted ofstudents with majors in mechanical and
, 2006 How Women Perform on Individual Design Projects Compared to MenAbstractThe relative performances of males and females are analyzed for two individual projects in asophomore engineering design class. The first project could be described as creative design forboth groups and required the building, testing and describing of devices to tell time using thesun. The females outperformed the males by a considerable margin in all aspects of the project.In the second project, requiring the explanation and demonstration of devices (elements of drivetrains) largely unfamiliar (by their own statements) to the females, the females faltered onlyslightly, relative to the males. However, the females overcame
2006-837: A SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT TEAM OF ENGINEERING ANDENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY STUDENTSGregory Watkins, University of North Carolina-Charlotte Gregory Watkins received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State University, a Master of Engineering Management from Old Dominion University, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from UNC Charlotte. He has taught in the Engineering Technology department at UNC Charlotte for the past 3.5 years. He taught in the Engineering Technologies Division at Central Piedmont Community College for 8 years and has 9 years of industrial work experience.Michael Smith, University of North Carolina-Charlotte Michael Smith is a Mechanical
Engineering and Assistant Dean of the T.J. Smull College of Engineering at Ohio Northern University. Her doctorate is from The Ohio State University. Research interests include control systems, nonlinear system identification, and undergraduate pedagogical methods. Dr. Hurtig is a member of IEEE, ASEE, and Tau Beta Pi. Page 11.1409.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Using Rubrics for the Assessment of Senior Design ProjectsAbstractThe process of evaluating senior design projects typically involves assessing reports andpresentations, then assigning relatively broad performance
Paper ID #19216Difficulty in Predicting Performance in a Project-Based Learning ProgramLouise Chan, Minnesota State University, Mankato Louise Chan is currently a graduate student at Minnesota State University, Mankato pursuing her Master’s in Industrial-Organizational Psychology. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from University of California, San Diego.Prof. Rob Sleezer, Minnesota State University, Mankato Rob Sleezer earned his Ph.D. in Microelectronics-Photonics from the University of Arkansas. He attended Oklahoma State University where he graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science and an M.S. and B.S
collaborating on the Dynamics Concept Inventory, developing model-eliciting activities in mechanical engineering courses, inquiry-based learning in mechanics, and design projects to help promote adapted physical activities. Other professional interests include aviation physiology and biomechanics.Mr. Eltahry Elghandour, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Eltahry Elghandour earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the Mechanical Design Department of the University of Helwan, Cairo, Egypt in 1989. He later earned his Philosophy of Doctor in Engineering degree from the Mechanical Engineering Department at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and University of
Paper ID #29635A New Framework for Student-Led Cocurricular Design ProjectsMiss Nicole Danielle Trenchard, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Nicole Trenchard is an Engineering Sciences degree candidate at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. A member of the Harvard College Class of 2020, her professional focus has been on hardware engineering. In addition to her mechanical engineering coursework, Miss Trenchard has served as a student volunteer, project lead, and state representative with the Harvard SEAS Engineers Without Borders Chapter. In 2019 she started her three-year term as the
Paper ID #28348A team build-test-redesign project in an engineering statics courseDr. Xiaobin Le P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology Professor, Ph.D, PE., Department of Mechanical Engineering and Technology, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA 02115, Phone: 617-989-4223, Email: Lex@wit.edu, Specialization in Com- puter Aided Design, Mechanical Design, Finite Element Analysis, Fatigue Design, Solid Mechanics and Engineering ReliabilityProf. Richard L Roberts, Wentworth Institute of Technology Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering College of Engineering and Computer Sci- ence Wentworth
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
Paper ID #29669Collaboration Patterns and Design Practices in First-Year Project-BasedEngineeringHa Nguyen, University of California-Irvine Ha Nguyen is a PhD student studying systems thinking and collaborative learning in STEM.Dr. Liang Li Wu, University of California, Irvine Liang (Lily) Wu is the Director of Academic Innovation, Programs at the Henry Samueli School of En- gineering, University of California, Irvine. Dr. Wu is responsible for implementing, overseeing and assessing the first-year engineering program and international programs to enhance and support the engi- neering education at the School of
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
flipped classroom freshman engineering mechatronics design projectAbstractHere we present an account of the development and evaluation of a mechatronics design project,the Supercapacitor Car Challenge, intended for freshman engineering students. The projectconsists of four weeks of structured lab activities, two weeks of unstructured free design work,and a final week devoted to the design challenge, the Distance Trial.At the onset of this seven-week project, students are given a kit with parts to build a standard cardesign, and some additional materials they need for lab activities throughout the design project.The standard car is powered by supercapacitors and is designed to run for a short time until thecharge in