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Teams and Teamwork in Design

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen W. Laguette, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2011-1226: PROGRESS REPORT - THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHPERFORMANCE CAPSTONE PROJECT TEAMS AND THE SELECTIONPROCESSStephen 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 been responsible for the creation of complex medical

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Steiner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Junichi Kanai, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Richard Alben, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Lester Gerhardt, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Cheng Hsu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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AC 2010-226: A HOLISTIC APPROACH FOR STUDENT ASSESSMENT INPROJECT-BASED MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING CAPSTONE DESIGNMark Steiner, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteJunichi Kanai, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteRichard Alben, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteLester Gerhardt, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteCheng Hsu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Page 15.42.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A Holistic Approach for Student Assessment in Project-based Multidisciplinary Engineering Capstone DesignAbstractA capstone design course involves multiple variables and complexities which make its teachingconspicuously challenging1,2; e.g., sponsors

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Beyerlein, University of Idaho; Denny Davis, Washington State University; Phillip Thompson, Seattle University; Michael Trevisan, Washington State University; Olakunle Harrison, Tuskegee University

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design instructors indicates that most use a collectionof custom-designed, single-purpose assessments that are not well-integrated with one anotherand are largely untested for reliability or validity11. This led participants in the TransferableIntegrated Design Engineering Education (TIDEE) consortium to shift their focus fromarticulation between 2-year and 4-year programs12,13,14 to capstone course assessment15,16. In2004, TIDEE received a National Science Foundation grant to develop transferable assessmentfor capstone engineering design courses. This research project responds to the need for a deeper,richer, more rigorous definition of the knowledge, behaviors, and attitudes that are important toengineering practice.The assessment framework

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Pezeshki, Washington State University; Jacob William Leachman, Washington State University; Michael Richey, The Boeing Company

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #16111A Tale of Three UAVs - or Design Lessons in Education for Projects Demand-ing Cross-Disciplinary IntegrationProf. Charles Pezeshki, Washington State University Charles (Chuck) Pezeshki is the Director of the Industrial Design Clinic in the School of MME at Wash- ington State University. The Industrial Design Clinic is the primary capstone vehicle for the School and focuses on industrially sponsored projects with hard deliverables that students must complete for gradua- tion. His research area is in knowledge construction as a function of social/relational organization.Prof. Jacob William Leachman, Washington

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary; Denis Onen, University of Calgary

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Diversity

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showcase the nexus of science and design using case studies, news, and articles. As an instructor, she was one of the recipients of The Allan Blizzard Award, a Canadian national teaching award for collaborative projects that improve student learning in 2004. In 2005, she was one of the recipients of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Curriculum Innovation Award. She is - as PIC II chair - currently a board member of ASEE.Dr. Denis Onen, University of Calgary Dr. Onen is a registered professional engineer with a broad industrial background in electrical engineering, in the following areas: electronics and embedded systems, integrated circuit design (signal processing and crytpography), biomedical engineering

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Student Empathy & Human-centered Design

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devanshi Shah, Florida Institute of Technology; Elisabeth Kames, Florida Institute of Technology ; McKenzie Carol Clark, Florida Institute of Technology; Beshoy Morkos, Florida Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Paper ID #27601Examining the Differences in Student Motivation for Industry Projects andNon-Industry Projects in Senior Capstone DesignDevanshi Shah, Florida Institute of Technology I am a graduate student pursuing M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology with specialization in Structures, Solid Mechanics and Materials. I graduated with B.E. in Mechanical Engineering in India in May 2016. My research is focused on Student’s Motivation in Engineering under the advisement of Dr. Beshoy Morkos.Elisabeth Kames, Florida Institute of Technology Elisabeth Kames is a graduate student working on her Ph.D. in

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

E James Nelson, Brigham Young University; Tatevik Christensen; Fernando S Fonseca, Brigham Young University; A. Woodruff Miller, Brigham Young University

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Design in Engineering Education

capstone design projects are playing anincreasingly important role in meeting the educational objectives of Civil & EnvironmentalEngineering degrees. In recent years both the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) andthe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) have placed a focus on thedevelopment of management, leadership and general business skills. Capstone programs offer anideal environment that provides a synthesis of the fundamental technical engineering skills indeveloping a culminating design while creating an opportunity to focus on all of the professionalpractice skills necessary for students to become future leaders in their field.Recognizing the opportunity to enhance development of these complimentary

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Elise M. Barrella, James Madison University; Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University; Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University; Justin J Henriques, James Madison University; Daniel Devon Imholte

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this is achieved is the team-based capstone experience, which starts in the fallsemester of junior year and ends in the spring semester of senior year. Our pedagogical approachin the capstone experience is for students to take ownership of their projects and their learning.The design instructors and faculty advisor(s) support and facilitate mastery learning throughdirected and non-directed, group-based and independent, simple and complex, structured andunstructured, project tasks that incrementally expose and reiterate the design process. In thispaper, we not only describe the conceptualization and implementation of this two-year capstoneexperience, but also present outcomes assessment data of student learning during this

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University; Beverly Kris Jaeger, Northeastern University

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Design in Engineering Education

building prototypes to solve real-worldproblems sponsored by industry and research faculty. Industrial Engineers (IE), by the nature oftheir discipline, often work on problems that do not involve a physical object. Instead, thedeliverables may be simulations, facility layouts, procedural modifications, databases, or otherprocesses or products less tangible than a physical prototype. Previous work by one of theauthors presented a validated scheme for assessing Mechanical Engineering (ME) solutionsbased on examination of the Executive Summary document written three weeks before the end ofthe Capstone course. For the present work, this same evaluation scheme was applied to theIndustrial Engineering projects presented during the past seven years. The

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jamie Gravell, University of Texas at Dallas; Robert Hart P.E., University of Texas at Dallas; Todd W. Polk, University of Texas at Dallas

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Design in Engineering Education

research interests are in multiscale modeling of crystalline material defects such as the interaction of dislocations and grain boundaries with application to enhanced material design for thin film semiconductor devices.Dr. Robert Hart P.E., University of Texas at Dallas Robert Hart is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Uni- versity of Texas at Dallas (UTD). He teaches the capstone design course sequence and serves as a Director for the UTDesign program, which facilitates corporate sponsorship of capstone projects and promotes re- source sharing and cross-disciplinary collaboration among engineering departments. His professional interests are in the areas of engineering

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cory A Cooper, United States Air Force Academy; Michael Lawrence Anderson P.E., United States Air Force Academy, Department of Engineering Mechanics; Chad Bruce; Sarah Galyon Dorman; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Kevin Otto; Kristin L. Wood, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

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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

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bob Rhoads, The Ohio State University; Clifford A Whitfield, Ohio State University; Jacob T Allenstein, The Ohio State University; Peter Rogers, The Ohio State University

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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

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Briana Lucero, Colorado School of Mines; Cameron J Turner P.E., Colorado School of Mines

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Design in Engineering Education

incorporating communities in the design process. Teaching students to designwith communities and not for communities is dependent upon the context of the design process.This paper addresses the pedagogy of social engineering in the capstone design projects rooted inthe framing of the design process for collaborative creativity.The programs that enact multidisciplinary curriculums are exemplar in satisfying the ABET a-kguidelines. Institutions of higher education that additionally use multi-year projects and employdesign progression though the undergraduate curriculum have more success in generatingprojects that have lasting effects on the communities. Due to the long-term commitment of thestudents to a specific project or community, there is greater

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kimberly B. Demoret P.E., Florida Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

students” to improve learning within the university.based on the idea of students teaching and learning from each other. Student attitudes aboutteaching and learning from peers are explored, along with the relative importance of factors Background and Motivationhighlighted in the Self-Determination Theory (SDT) of intrinsic motivation- autonomy, masteryand relatedness (i.e., feeling a connection to a larger group). The first approach described is the The work in this paper was motivated by a desire to improve student performance in Aerospaceuse of capstone design projects with explicit educational objectives to enhance the hands-on Engineering (AE) capstone design at a mid-sized southeastern private university. At this school

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ding Yuan, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Ananda Mani Paudel, Colorado State University, Pueblo

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Design in Engineering Education

sustainable engineering design skills. Moreover, thestudents can practice and demonstrate their capability on sustainable engineering design throughtheir capstone senior design experience. Typically, our engineering students select project ideasand work in teams to prepare their senior design proposals in a fall Senior Seminar course andcomplete them in the following spring semester. Hence, this new module was designed to beimplemented in fall, right after each team was formed and selected a senior design topic.This new module included lectures, group discussions, in-class activities, team assignments, andsurvey. It started with an in-class discussion about the relationship of sustainability toengineering. Then, a six-factor table was introduced as a

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Trevelyan, University of Western Australia

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Paper ID #13710Incremental Self-Assessment Rubrics for Capstone Design CoursesProf. James Trevelyan, University of Western Australia Professor James Trevelyan works part-time as a Winthrop Professor in the Mechanical and Chemical En- gineering School at The University of Western Australia, Fellow of Engineers Australia, and also practices as a mechanical and mechatronics engineer developing new air conditioning technology. His main area of research is on engineering practice, and he teaches design, sustainability, engineering practice and project management. He is well known internationally for pioneering research that

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David A Saftner, University of Minnesota Duluth; Sara D. Ojard, University of Minnesota Duluth; Eshan V. Dave, University of Minnesota, Duluth; Nathan William Johnson, University of Minnesota Duluth; Eil Kwon; Rebecca Teasley, Civil Engineering University of Minnesota Duluth

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a New ProgramABSTRACTThe University of Minnesota Duluth’s Department of Civil Engineering accepted its firststudents in 2008, graduated its first class in 2012, and first offered a capstone design course inthe spring semester, 2012. Groups of five to six students designed a building on a local site.Students organized their teams based on interest in a particular branch of civil engineering,allowing individual students to focus their efforts on a particular subject. Based on feedbackfrom faculty, practicing engineers, and students, several changes were implemented prior to thefall 2012 semester. These changes included making the group size smaller, modifying the gradedsubmissions, and changing the project location. Most significantly, the

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Andrew L. Gillen, University College London; Michael L. Woodrow, University College London; Jose Luis Torero, University College London

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Design in Engineering Education

a projectwhere the interactions of the sub-disciplines are complex and where extrinsic variables,associated to professional practice, many times drive decisions.Our work takes place within a larger project to reform the integrated civil engineeringcapstone course. This course is offered as a final year experience for undergraduates, butmasters-level students are also allowed to participate. The course is offered at a large, publicresearch institution in the United Kingdom where professional certification can be attainedvia the accredited undergraduate or master’s programs. The course was implemented morethan a decade ago, and through these years it has been modified several times. In its currentform, the capstone course has been largely

Conference Session

Capstone Pedgagogy

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

C. Richard Compeau Jr., Texas State University; Austin Talley P.E., Texas State University

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #29114Work In Progress: Is Our Capstone Mentorship Model Working?Dr. C. Richard Compeau Jr, Texas State University C. Richard Compeau Jr. is a Professor of Practice in the Ingram School of Engineering, and the Electrical Engineering Program Coordinator. He is interested in teaching and curriculum development. His work is typically project-specific for the EE Capstone courses, with an emphasis on applied electromagnetics.Dr. Austin Talley P.E., Texas State University Dr. Austin Talley is a Senior Lecturer in the Ingram School of Engineering at Texas State University. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Valerie Vanessa Bracho Perez, Florida International University; Anilegna Nuñez Abreu, Florida International University; Ameen Anwar Khan, Florida International University; Luis Enrique Guardia, Florida International University; Indhira María Hasbún, Florida International University; Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University

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engineering design practice [9], [10], [11], indicating that there is a need to furtherunderstand what factors influence engineering students’ perceptions of design skills.Additionally, there is a gap between what engineering students and practicing engineers believeengineering work, design, and practice to be, demonstrating a need to understand therepresentations students have of engineering, design, and engineering practice [5].The study presented in this paper is part of a larger project exploring the overall studentexperience within a redesigned senior design mechanical engineering capstone course at a large,public, Minority Serving Institution (MSI). This study highlights students’ perceptions of theskills developed, and courses taken throughout

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Capstone Design Practices

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly B. Demoret P.E., Florida Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

]. Social loafing tends to increase withteam size [3].At the Florida Institute of Technology (Florida Tech), aerospace engineering majors take a three-semester Capstone Design sequence- a one-credit Junior Design class in the spring, then twothree-credit Senior Design 1 and Senior Design 2 classes. Aerospace projects are complex andcostly, and teams tend to be large, averaging eight students per team. Teams are self-organizedand pick their own project managers after being assigned to a team. One instructor is responsiblefor grading the entire class (a typical class size is ~70 students), though other faculty may act astechnical advisors to individual teams. Student grading is based on team products (60%), peerfeedback (20%), and individual

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Capstone Design Practices

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine; Mark E. Walter, University of California, Irvine

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Design in Engineering Education

. The senior designor “capstone” project course became MAE189 Senior Projects, and students were required totake 3 units of MAE189 for graduation. With only 3 “decentralized units,” the ambitions of thestudents were limited and projects were also, unsurprisingly, of low quality. Around 2005, theunit limit on MAE189 was removed; the 3 unit requirement was maintained, but up to 8additional MAE189 units could be used for technical elective credit. This was done both toplease students who were increasingly finding that project involvement was the easiest way toget an engineering job, and the projects were getting larger, needing students to be active formultiple quarters. In fact, students were starting to get involved in projects prior to their

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Capstone Design Practices

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Elliot Gaines, University of South Florida; Olukemi Akintewe, University of South Florida; Schinnel Kylan Small, University of South Florida; Terreonn Henry

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #25238Engineering Design Instruction Using Slack for Project Support and Team-workDr. Jonathan Elliot Gaines, University of South Florida Jonathan E. Gaines is faculty in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of South Florida. He is the Director of First Year Experiential Education and Learning. Through this position, he develops and implements the curriculum for USF’s Foundations of Engineering Lab course. He is also the Principle Investigator for Bulls Engineering Youth Experience (Bulls-EYE Mentoring) a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math based outreach program that uses undergraduate

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Renee D. Rogge, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Glen A. Livesay, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jameel Ahmed, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; William A. Kline, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Robert M. Bunch, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Michael Wollowski, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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fromproduct design, business, and marketing in a way that more closely represents the process as itoccurs in practice.4-7 In addition, it may provide design educators with an assessment tool forstudent learning as it provides an opportunity to compare initial, mid, and final versions of the ICduring the course of a capstone design project. The IC may also help design teams focusattention on critical issues that can determine the success of a new design and to recognize theinterconnection and overlap between the various technical and non-technical issues related tosuccessful product development. Another potential strength of the IC for use in a capstone designcourse is the “at-a-glance” view of the critical components that must be considered

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Delorme, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES)

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of complex, multi-disciplinary, systems engineering focused student de- sign and development projects. Page 26.1509.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 “Work-in-Progress:” The Capstone Marketplace: An Online Tool for Matching Capstone Design Students to Sponsors with Challenging ProblemsThe Capstone Marketplace is an online tool developed and maintained to match multi-disciplinary student teams with challenging engineering projects. While web based tools exist formatching students to projects at individual institutions, the Capstone

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter L. Schmidt, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; James M. Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Design in Engineering Education

LearnedA “lessons learned” exploration of the capstone program at UNC Charlotte could constitute anentire publication. The main lessons learned over the 6 year life of the program will be addressedhere. Lessons described in the sections above will not be repeated.Student projects must not appear to be “make-work” or lack realistic expectations – Despitestudent inexperience in the workplace, they are extremely adept at identifying projects that seemto be unimportant to sponsoring organizations, or projects that do not require the delivery of realengineering content. All projects placed before students for selection or assignment should beformatted in the same way, require deliverables that are defined and achievable and offer thepossibility of

Conference Session

1st and 2nd Year Instruction in Design

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cory A. Cooper, United States Air Force; Michael Lawrence Anderson, United States Air Force; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Joseph M. Fulton, U.S. Air Force Academy; Kristin L. Wood, Singapore University of Technology and Design

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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

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susannah Howe, Smith College

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Design in Engineering Education

Education, 2008 Focused Follow-Up to 2005 National Capstone SurveyAbstractThis work details a survey of engineering capstone design courses focused on faculty teachingload and capstone funding levels. The survey was distributed to the attendees of the inauguralNational Capstone Design Course Conference in June 2007. The survey yielded responses from59 participants, representing 45 institutions. The results of the survey provide valuable insightinto number and duration of design projects, team size, capstone teaching credit, facultyinvolvement, direct project costs, and external funding levels.1. IntroductionCapstone design courses offer engineering students a culminating design experience through anapplied engineering project

Conference Session

Making, Hacking, and Extracurricular Design

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luis Javier Martinez, New Mexico State University, Department of Industrial Engineering; Patricia A. Sullivan, New Mexico State University; Edward Pines, New Mexico State University

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Paper ID #17708Integration of Engineering Capstone within a Makerspace EnvironmentMr. Luis Javier Martinez, New Mexico State University, Department of Industrial Engineering Luis J Martinez is a MS graduate student in the Department of Industrial Engineering at New Mexico State University. His current work involves the integration of capstone projects from the College of Engineering of NMSU with the Aggie Innovation Space (the university maker space) with hopes of transitioning these projects to a Technology Acceleration process with the Student Technology Incubator of the University. Luis is involved in the Institute of

Conference Session

Design for Community and Environment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Kimes, University of Missouri-Kansas City; Deborah O'Bannon, University of Missouri-Kansas City

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Design in Engineering Education

completed the work within the two semesterclass time and worked closely with City of Kansas City engineering staff. The construction isplanned for late 2006 and will use the students’ design.IntroductionThe Civil Engineering Capstone Design course at the University of Missouri-Kansas City haspartnered with the City of Kansas City, Missouri Department of Public Works to design useful,traffic-bearing structures since 2003. Civil engineering projects for the senior design class areparticularly difficult to identify because civil engineering projects are typically large andcomplex. Past projects at the University of Missouri-Kansas City were usually eitherretrospective/paper designs or projects of such great scope that the students seldom got a senseof