Conference Session

Design Projects

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Farris, Grand Valley State University; Paul Lane, Grand Valley State University

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Design in Engineering Education

difficult but transporting the beans between processeswhile minimizing the overall size of the product was difficult. This technical challenge became afocused class project in the advanced product design class. Similarly the students discoveredthat containing the odor generated during roasting the beans was very difficult. The strategiesthey used did not function well. This technical challenge became senior research topic in thechemistry department’s capstone class. In addition, improving the control system was identifiedas a difficult challenge and a team of electrical engineering students undertook the design andmanufacture of a circuit board to control the roasting, grinding and brewing processes. On thebusiness side, the original team could not

Conference Session

Design Projects

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frederick Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; William Eccles, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Bruce Ferguson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Daniel Moore, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Mihaela Radu, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Terry Schumacher, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; David Voltmer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Mark Yoder, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Edward Wheeler, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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teaching loads required by grading the many writing assignments. Moreover,the students’ critical reading skills are enhanced by the process. Assessment data verifies the positive contributionsof CPR to the course.Student teams are encouraged to submit their proposal for review by external funding organizations such as theNational Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA)8 for funding consideration. Those teams that aresuccessful in attracting funding can use this external validation and funding as the basis for their project during thesenior year courses.ECE460 & 461 – Engineering Design I & II – 10 credits – distributed over 25 weeks of senior yearThe sequence is concluded by the “senior project” courses, in essence a capstone

Conference Session

Design Tools and Skill Development

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cory Cooper, United States Air Force Academy; Daniel D. Jensen, United States Air Force Academy; Michael Lawrence Anderson P.E., United States Air Force Academy

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Design in Engineering Education

Unmanned Systems Program Committee. His research at the Academy focuses on innovative design methodologies applied to UAV problems. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Designettes in Capstone: Impact of Early Design Experiences in Capstone Education with Emphasis on Depth of Design Process Content Cory A. Cooper, Daniel D. Jensen, and Michael L. Anderson United States Air Force Academy, Colorado, USAAbstractThe engineering design process can be a complex and lengthy process, and be considered adaunting experience for engineering students embarking on their first full-length project.“Designettes” are a

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cory A. Hixson, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; James J. Pembridge, Virginia Tech

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Design in Engineering Education

seek to develop new design educators and provide ongoing supportfor current faculty. Such understanding could help support existing capstone design facultymembers’ growth in expertise, create relevant professional development resources, andencourage new faculty members/university departments to implement capstone design courses. Itcan also provide course coordinators with strategies for engaging project and industry advisorsand for positioning the role of practice-oriented courses across the curriculum.However, little if any work to date explores faculty motivation with respect to design education.To address this gap, this paper analyzes secondary interviews conducted with capstone designfaculty; the interviews focus specifically on teaching

Conference Session

Design Pedagogy and Curriculum 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy F. Wheeler, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Design in Engineering Education

) and a Master of Science in Curriculum and Instruction from Penn State University (2010). He is course coordinator for the Senior Capstone Design program. He has directed project-based programs for undergraduates with an interest in space-related fields as well as service-learning programs for those interested in community service.Ms. Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Page 23.540.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Enhancing the quality of senior design projects: The introduction of a coordinated sequence of design courses to

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teodora Rutar, Seattle University; Brandon Shuman, MS

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Design in Engineering Education

andresponsibility while maintaining a framework for collaboration and milestones, and as suchcould fill the gap usually encountered in capstone design projects. In the 23-year history of year-long industry-sponsored capstone design team-projects at Seattle University, projects oftensuffered from the following shortcomings: failures to meet deadlines, poor contribution fromsome team-members, and incomplete use of available resources. Furthermore, advice from ourprogram’s industry advisors indicates that engineering graduates should have some projectmanagement skills and understand the importance and challenges of managing projects. Inresponse, we adopted MOPM to our senior design projects.The paper describes implementation of MOPM in our senior design

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andy S. Peng, University of Wisconsin - Stout; Brian Eickhoff, Sentera, LLC; Kenan Baltaci, University of Wisconsin - Stout; Liang Zhan, University of Wisconsin - Stout; Robert M. Nelson, University of Wisconsin - Stout

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Developing a Computer Engineering Capstone Design Course with a Startup CompanyAbstractEngineering faculty responsible for leading capstone projects are often faced with challenges indefining project topics for students. There is an ongoing need for developing new project topicsthat can be tackled by teams of upper-division undergraduate students. In contrast, during theearly phases of establishing a profitable business, many startup companies are faced with anoverwhelming number of research and development tasks required to build innovative products.Due to constraints in engineering resources or subject matter expertise, some of these projectsmay be deferred or left unsolved within the startup organization. Some of these

Conference Session

Design Teams 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Caroline Clay, Arizona State University; Johannah Daschil; Melissa Wood Aleman, James Madison University; Julie S. Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology; Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University

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Design in Engineering Education

- sity. Dr. Nagel joined James Madison University after completing his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Oregon State University. Nagel teaches and performs research related to engineering design. Specifically, through research, Nagel explores how design interventions commonly used to teach design influence stu- dent learning. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Work in Progress: Qualitative Differences in Learning Processes and Skill Development Across Engineering Capstone TeamsAbstractThis work in progress paper presents a study that follows four engineering capstone teams overthe course of their two-year projects. Students on four

Conference Session

Design Across Disciplines

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Iem H. Heng, New York City College of Technology; Andy Zhang, New York City College of Technology; Farrukh Zia, New York City College of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

cross-departmental collaboration. The hands-on robotic design project is introduced in the capstonecourses to teach interconnected STEM concepts. This type of project, which has proven veryeffective in engaging students, is used in many areas of technical courses as hands-on activitiesand demonstration and, in addition, lab work. Additionally, the focus of robotic project is onhardware/software interface, data communication, electrical circuits, and mechanisms whichreflect actual engineering activities in a company. These areas provide a tight integration ofmany STEM concepts and activities for capstone course. In general, the capstone course is aparent course that has inherited the knowledge of many feeder (pre-requisite) courses, and

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin William Weiser, Eastern Washington University; Hani Serhal Saad, Eastern Washington University; Robert E. Gerlick, Eastern Washington University

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Design in Engineering Education

produce a total of15 fully functioning products. This was a good approach to the course when the students were amix of MET and applied technology students. When the ME degree was added to the program in2010, the course shifted more to a research and development focus than production. It requiresone single functioning prototype instead of 15, and has ME and MET students working togethersince a separate capstone course was created for the applied technology students. This hasdefinitely increased the complexity of the projects and made it easier to reach out to assist localindustry. In order to successfully complete these projects, students must spend a lot of time onresearch and design before they begin building their working prototype. This was

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith G. Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Christos Christodoulatos, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Kate D. Abel, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Leslie R Brunell, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Sandra V. Furnbach P.E., Stevens Institute of Technology; Vikki Hazelwood, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Kishore Pochiraju, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Eirik Hole, Stevens Institute of Technology (SSE); Bruce McNair, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Thomas G. Lechler, Stevens Institute of Technology

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published in the leading technology manage- ment journals and he has published four books. His research has received several awards. In 1999 at the Rent 13 Conference in London he received the best Paper Award. In 2010 he received the PMI Project Management Journal Paper of the Year Award. He has received several research grants from NSF and from other funding organizations. From 2003-2005 he was appointed NASA research fellow in project management. Page 26.81.3 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015  A Pilot for Integrating Capstone Design with a Two-Semester

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Eduaction - Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University; Christine Co, Oklahoma State University; Bear Turner, Oklahoma State University

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2007-748: IMPROVING TEAM PERFORMANCE IN A CAPSTONE DESIGNCOURSE USING THE JIGSAW TECHNIQUE AND ELECTRONIC PEEREVALUATIONAlan Cheville, Oklahoma State UniversityChristine Co, Oklahoma State UniversityBear Turner, Oklahoma State University Page 12.864.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Improving Team Performance in a Capstone Design Course using the Jigsaw Technique and Electronic Peer EvaluationIntroductionMost engineering departments use capstone design courses to give student teams theopportunity to design, build, and test a complex project. The advantages of capstoneprograms are numerous. Such courses expose students to many of the realistic

Conference Session

Developing the Design Skillset

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daria A. Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado, Boulder; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Seda McKIlligan, Iowa State University; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Madeline Polmear

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Design in Engineering Education

77 cards, with each heuristic represented on a single card with examples.For this study, Design Heuristics were incorporated into a year-long mechanical engineering Page 24.544.2capstone design course, and students had open access to the 77 Cards representing DesignHeuristics for the entire year of their projects. Formal training was implemented in the capstonedesign course as a strategy to introduce concept generation and the 77 Design Heuristic cards.Our work explores the use of the 77 Design Heuristic cards by the capstone design teams,including their reactions to these strategies and how they, and their advisors, believed thesestrategies

Conference Session

The Best in DEED

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susannah Howe, Smith College; Laura Mae Rosenbauer, Smith College

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Design in Engineering Education

Australia and New Zealand to identify how capstone courses areimplemented outside the United States and what strategies can be shared across countries. As intheir United States counterpart, the 2015 Australia and New Zealand surveys includedquantitative, categorical, and open-ended questions on capstone course information, pedagogy,evaluation, faculty, students, projects and teams, expenses and funding, sponsors, and respondentexperience and opinion. This paper presents highlights of the resulting data by country, drawingcomparisons where possible across countries: Australia, New Zealand, and the United States.Overall, the essence of capstone design courses in the three countries is quite similar; there arevariations in implementation details, but

Conference Session

Communication in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Schmidt, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Deborah Sharer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Nabila (Nan) BouSaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Daniel Hoch, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; James Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Bruce Gehrig, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Steve Patterson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Design in Engineering Education

whendealing with documentation. This is especially true of any technical professional who isinvolved with projects that must be designed for a competitive bidding process.The simple structure must also be flexible. Just as projects undertaken by practicingengineers can differ in scope and focus, multidisciplinary capstone projects vary indiscipline specific content. The system must be able to accommodate projects withdeliverables that are real and full size, to models of large systems and even softwarebased simulations of control system design.The basic document list required in the subject capstone program also allows projects toexpand their documentation where necessary or desirable. For example, a project thatdelivers a prototype mechanical device

Conference Session

DEED Postcard Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Design in Engineering Education

developed design based curriculum for multiple K-12 teach PDIs and student summer camps.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. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Work in Progress: Senior Design Day: Multidiscipline and Multidepartment Capstone Presentation EventAbstractSenior Design or "Capstone" projects are one of the most important

Conference Session

1st and 2nd Year Instruction in Design

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ruturaj Soman, Florida A&M University/Florida State University ; Nikhil Gupta, Florida State University; Chiang Shih, Florida A&M University/Florida State University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

the modern engineering world, traditional in-class teachingmethods may need to be modified to adequately prepare students to be competent in today’sindustry. Therefore, there is an increased emphasis in providing design experience throughintegrated project-based learning throughout the engineering curriculum. In this paper, we willpresent our recent efforts at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Florida Agriculturaland Mechanical University-Florida State University College of Engineering (FAMU-FSU COE)to develop a coordinated and integrated three-semester course sequence to the capstone experience.The broad aim is to introduce the overall design process through project planning, management,and product development with an emphasis

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Capstone Design Practices

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kris Jaeger-Helton, Northeastern University; Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University; Hugh L. McManus, Northeastern University

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Design in Engineering Education

Team, a select group of teaching faculty expressly devoted to the first-year Engineering Program at NU. In addition, she serves as a Faculty Advisor for Senior Capstone Design and graduate-level Challenge Projects in Northeastern’s Gordon Engineering Leadership Program. Dr. Jaeger-Helton has been the recipient of over 15 awards in engineering education for both teaching and mentoring and has been involved in several engineering educational research initiatives through ASEE and beyond.Dr. Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University Dr. Smyser is an Associate Teaching Professor and the Lab Director of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. Her research interests include Capstone Design and Lab Pedagogy.Prof. Hugh L

Conference Session

Assessing Design Course Work

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Schmidt, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; James Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; William Heybruck, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Daniel Hoch, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Deborah Sharer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Linda Thurman, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Nabila (Nan) BouSaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Patricia Tolley, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Martin Kane, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Design in Engineering Education

has shown, the Millennial student does not respond to traditional instructionaltechniques as past experience might indicate. This readjustment must also be made by employersin general and by first line managers in particular.Assessing the experience that students had with an interdisciplinary capstone senior designcourse provides valuable insight into workforce expectations and areas for management styleadaptation to maximize retention of technical staff. This work details and evaluates the responsesreceived from students taking an anonymous survey of their experiences working with technicalcontacts associated with sponsored design projects. This body of knowledge is important forfaculty in capstone design programs to understand, and more

Conference Session

Student Evaluation in Design Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amber N. Lyerly, East Carolina University; Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

fellow of the American Society of Engineering Management and serves as the 2015 ASEM President. Dixon also serves on the Eugene L. Grant Award Committee for the Engineering Economy Division of ASEE. He is a board member of the ASEE Design in Engineering Education Division and Secretary for the ASEE Industrial Engineering Division. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Work In Progress: Grading the Capstone Written Design Reports: a comparison of external judges and faculty scoresAbstractCapstone projects often require senior engineering students to develop oral and writtencommunications skills. Both reports are sometimes graded by faculty advisors, coursecoordinators

Conference Session

Professional Skills and Teaming in Design

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd W. Polk, University of Texas, Dallas; Margaret Garnett Smallwood, University of Texas, Dallas; Jeanne Sluder; Robert Hart P.E., University of Texas, Dallas; Joe Pacheco Jr., University of Texas, Dallas

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

, he developed the capstone course sequence in the newly-formed Bio- engineering department and has been responsible for teaching it since. Todd also serves as a Director for the UTDesign program, which facilitates resource sharing and corporate sponsorship of projects for all engineering disciplines at the university. He attended the Capstone Design Conference in 2014 and 2016, and is an active member of IEEE and EMBS.Prof. Margaret Garnett Smallwood, University of Texas, Dallas I am a Senior Lecturer II in the Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. I teach three business communication courses to undergraduate students. I have an MBA in international management and marketing from UTD and

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olga Pierrakos, Virginia Tech; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech; Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2007-849: ASSESSING LEARNING OUTCOMES OF SENIOR MECHANICALENGINEERS IN A CAPSTONE DESIGN EXPERIENCEOlga Pierrakos, Virginia Tech Olga Pierrakos is currently a National Academy of Engineering CASEE AGEP Postdoctoral Engineering Education Researcher (PEER) at Virginia Tech in the Department of Engineering Education. Dr. Pierrakos holds an M.S. in Engineering Mechanics and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Virginia Tech. Her Ph.D. work pertained to vortex dynamics in left ventricular flows. She has served as faculty advisor to over thirty mechanical engineering seniors involved in biomedical engineering design projects and taught several mechanical engineering fluid mechanics

Conference Session

Best of DEED

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibrahim Mohedas, University of Michigan; Grace Louise Cravens, Sienko Research Group; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Kathleen H. Sienko, University of Michigan

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

to address this gap in the literature by determining what students perceive therole of stakeholders should be during the design process and identifying the design project traitsthat facilitate learning the value of human-centered design processes.Research DesignStudy PurposeThe goal of this study was to determine how student perceptions of stakeholders differed beforeand after their capstone design experience, and to determine if and how the students’ interactionswith stakeholders during the semester changed their perceptions. We also explored how different Page 26.1695.2design project traits may have affected the level of stakeholder

Conference Session

Assessing Design Course Work

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oliver Platts-Mills, University of Virginia; Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

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Design in Engineering Education

introduced which assesses theeffect that differences between capstone experiences have on student outcomes.The proposed framework identifies sources of variation in a student’s capstoneexperience that are endogenous to the course (e.g., project type, team size) andexogenous to it (e.g., students’ prior knowledge, students’ demographics). This approachemphasizes an understanding of the underlying aspects of each student’s individualcapstone experience. In addition, differences that students bring with them to capstone,including prior industrial experience, academic performance, and demographicdifferences, are integrated into the framework. Understanding the connection betweenthese differences and the fulfillment of desired outcomes is important to

Conference Session

Teamwork and Student Learning in Design

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly B. Demoret P.E., Florida Institute of Technology; Kyi Phyu Nyein, Florida Institute of Technology; Jessica L. Wildman, Florida Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

, Competencies, and Trust Measured in Student SurveysAbstractAerospace engineering students at the Florida Institute of Technology are required to complete a3-semester capstone design project. In their junior year students propose topics, form teams, andwrite a proposal for their senior project, then as seniors they complete preliminary and detaileddesign, then fabricate and test their system. Their efforts culminate in a Student DesignShowcase, where industry participants judge the final projects. Many students identify thecapstone design project as the most significant event in their academic career. In this paper wedescribe changes made in the aerospace engineering capstone curriculum during the 2016-2017season and

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Design in Engineering Education

education are addressed.BackgroundA critical component of the education and training of engineering professionals is thecapstone design course. The purpose of this course is to provide a culminating experiencefor senior engineering students that foreshadows the type of project work practicingengineers encounter on the job. In these courses students must work under real-worldconstraints on ill-defined problems, typically in teams, and often receive industryfeedback during various phases of a design project1.A recent national survey of capstone engineering design course instructors acrossprograms and disciplines found that respondents reported using the capstone designcourse to document student achievement for accountability and accreditation

Conference Session

Best In DEED

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

Cornerstone Design, Senior Capstone Design,Engineering Education, Engineering Retention1. IntroductionEngineering curriculum at the university level typically culminates in a senior design capstonecourse. The goal of the senior capstone design course is to challenge the students with an exampleof a real-world project, preparing them for industry. University curriculum used to focus heavilyon design and design challenges, typical of industry level engineering. Due to increasing systemcomplexity, engineering curriculums were prompted to add more science and mathematics classesto help students understand needed tools and methods.1 However, over time this produced studentswith a decreasing understanding of the practical applications of engineering and

Conference Session

Idea Generation and Creativity in Design

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shraddha Sangelkar, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; Charlotte De Vries, Penn State Erie, the Behrend College; Omar Ashour, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; William C. Lasher, Pennsylvania State University, Erie

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

Erie we are limited to three 50-minute class periods to teach concept generation.Given this limitation, a balance must be chosen between quantity of the methods taught, and thedetail in which students learn them.In spite of the wide array of ideation methods, undergraduate students often end upimplementing only the basic brainstorming method for their capstone projects. The senior designprojects in the Mechanical Engineering (ME) capstone program at Penn State Erie, the BehrendCollege vary widely from traditional mechanism design and construction projects where standardconcept generation techniques are appropriate, to design optimization problems with a strongfocus on mathematical modeling where concept generation relies heavily on the results

Conference Session

The BEST InDEED

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Gewirtz, Virginia Tech; Daria A. Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Sidharth Arunkumar; Julie Dyke Ford, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Susannah Howe, Smith College; Laura Mae Rosenbauer, Smith College; Nicholas Emory Alvarez, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Jessica Deters, Virginia Tech ; Cristian Hernandez

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Design in Engineering Education

Jessica Deters is a PhD student at Virginia Tech in the Department of Engineering Education. She holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics & Statistics and a minor in the McBride Honors Program in Public Affairs from the Colorado School of Mines. Jessica is engaging in projects that emphasize the sociotechnical na- ture of engineering with a focus on social justice and diversity. She aims to educate the next generation of engineers to understand and value the social, political, economic, environmental, and human implications of their designs.Mr. Cristian Hernandez c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 New engineers’ first three months: A study of the transition from capstone

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Ruhala, University of Southern Indiana

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Design in Engineering Education

Universal Eye Speculum with Vibrational AnesthesiaAbstractIn these days of universities encouraging interaction between students and the community,faculty members sometimes need look no further than their own personal lives to find suchopportunities. This professor was undergoing a simple ophthalmological procedure when shenoticed the discomfort related not to the procedure itself, but to the eye speculum used to holdback her lashes during the procedure.Discussions began immediately with the ophthalmologist regarding the causes of the discomfortand other limitations of what appeared to be a simple, mechanical device; from these discussionsa senior capstone design project was proposed. The goal of the project was