career in automotive research as a product development engineer at the University of Windsor/Chrysler Canada Automotive Research and Development Centre (ARDC), conducting vehi- cle durability studies and associated research activities in the Road Test Simulation (RTS) laboratory. In 2005, she joined the University of Windsor as an Experiential Learning Specialist, focusing on teaching and educational research in hands-on learning and cooperative education as it relates to undergraduate engineering. She has developed neural network models for automotive rubber bushings for incorporation in durability simulations with the goal of accelerating product development. Additional work related to the field of composites
Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Dr. Wood completed his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology, where he was an AT&T Bell Laboratories Ph.D. Scholar. Dr. Wood joined the faculty at the University of Texas in September 1989 and established a computational and experimental laboratory for research in engineering design and manufacturing, in addition to a teaching laboratory for prototyping, reverse engineering measurements, and testing. During his academic career, Dr. Wood was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the United States Air Force Academy. Through 2011, Dr. Wood was a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Design
Paper ID #13654Valuing and engaging stakeholders: The effects of engineering students’ in-teractions during capstone designIbrahim Mohedas, University of Michigan Ibrahim Mohedas is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2011. His research focuses on the design of medical devices for resource limited settings, particularly related to the use of design ethnography in developing these technologies. He works in the Laboratory for Innovation in Global Health Technology (LIGHT
across the nation. Engineering curricula during this period was based on specializedtechnical training to allow graduates to become immediately useful in industrial design careersand to efficiently meet the needs of the quickly developing economy. This trend of educationcontinued and “by 1900, it was generally recognized that American laboratories and methods forthe teaching of engineering were not surpassed and often not equaled in any other part of theworld. This could not be claimed, however, for much of the theoretical instruction in design” 1.Despite the weakness of design theory instruction, the focus on applied learning and hands-onexperience in engineering schools sufficiently met the needs of the booming manufacturing,automobile
runs for thirteen weeks,and includes both a lecture and laboratory component. It was chosen as the initial situation fortesting due to the flexible project environment and the heavy emphasis on design.In 2012, ENGG 200 students were asked to create a computer game as one of their multi-weekdesign projects. Students were asked to choose a client market, and then to justify their resultingdesign specifications, decisions, and game mechanics for the target audience. Few restrictionswere built into the project, allowing teams to exercise as much creativity as possible. A freegame creation platform was suggested and made available, but students were free to use anysoftware or environment they preferred. The development process lasted several weeks
, University of Michigan Kathleen H. Sienko is a Miller Faculty Scholar and Associate Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Page 26.1131.1 Engineering at the University of Michigan (UM). She earned her Ph.D. in 2007 in Medical Engineering and Bioastronautics from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology, and holds an S.M. in Aeronautics & Astronautics from MIT and a B.S. in Materials Engineering from the University of Kentucky. She directs both the Sensory Augmentation and Rehabilitation Laboratory (SARL) and the c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015
knowledge, modeling skills andanalysis abilities of using BIM in the sustainability domain were addressed by developinggrading rubrics for specific project deliverables.The joint course project was coordinated by instructors of two upper division electives enrolledmajorly by senior students with a few juniors, including CM-132: Advanced ArchitecturalDesign and CM-177: Sustainable Construction, with assistance from the industry partner who isthe general contractor of the selected campus laboratory project. The overarching joint courseproject goal set for students was to develop strategies, create designs, conduct analyses andprepare documentation in pursuit of LEED certification facilitated by BIM. Project teams weremade of 4-5 students from the two
Paper ID #12191The Capstone Marketplace: An Online Tool for Matching Capstone DesignStudents to Sponsors with Challenging ProblemsMr. Michael DeLorme, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES) Mr. Michael DeLorme Mr. DeLorme has 11 years of professional experience as a Research Associate/Engineer at Stevens; Davidson Laboratory, DHS National Center for Secure and Resilient Maritime Commerce (CSR), and Systems Engineering Research Center. Research concentrations include experimental marine hydrody- namics, unmanned marine vehicles, the implementation of hydro-acoustics for the detection of marine vehicles, and the coordination
running was manageable and could be completed by one or two trained technicians who spent about two to five hours each week maintaining or servicing the laboratory equipment. The most common problem is for the extruder to jam in some way, which could either be a blockage in the drive gear or a blockage in the nozzle. The first can usually be fixed quickly by disassembling the extruder, removing the blockage, and reassembling. In order to fix a nozzle jam, the nozzle has to be cleared out with a 0.4 millimeter drill bit, removed and cleaned with a propane torch, or replaced entirely. The next most common failure is that the filament cooling fan duct hits a part that has warped and breaks off. In this case, the duct can easily be replaced by one
projects that include the layout optimization for wind farms, array design for novel wave energy conversion devices, optimization of collaborative power systems, the sustainable redesign of commuting bicycles, and the quantification of sustainability during the early de- sign phase. Dr. DuPont completed her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2013 in the Integrated Design Innovation Group, and her projects are currently funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Energy Technology Laboratory, Oregon State University, and Oregon BEST/Bonneville Power Association.Dr. Christopher Hoyle, Oregon State University Dr. Christopher Hoyle is currently Assistant Professor and Arthur Hitsman
process and design educational and research programs that bring the concepts of innovation and entrepreneurship into the classroom and the research laboratory. Dr. Christodoulatos is leading the implementation of academic entrepreneurship through the creation of innovative curric- ula and overseeing the commercialization of the Institute’s intellectual property. He has been teaching and performing research since 1988 and has managed over a hundred and fifty major research projects exceeding $30M. Dr. Christodoulatos has developed and delivered entrepreneurship curricula and special- ized innovation and entrepreneurship workshops for faculty, administration and technical entrepreneurs in Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan. He
manufacturing activities at Yale’s academic makerspace. His professional interests in Mechanical Engi- neering are in the areas of data acquisition/analysis and mechanical design. He is the Co-Chair of the Executive Advisory Board of the FIRST Foundation and is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechan- ical Engineering. Previously, he was the Dean of Engineering at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and has had fellowships at the MIT Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, the Harvard School of Public Health and with the American Council on Education. He has also served as the Vice President of Public Awareness for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and was the 2001 Baccalaureate College Professor of the Year by the Carnegie
Page 26.951.2support research activity at an internationally competitive level for a top 100 university.Coordinating two courses for 300 or more students is normal, with support from teachingassistants for tutorials and laboratory classes. (In Australian universities, each course isnormally 25% of a full-time student’s study load for a semester.) In view of its importance,the capstone design course has a slightly higher level of teaching resources than most othercourses.The second challenge is students’ lack of practical knowledge. Practical knowledge amongstudents entering our engineering courses is usually limited to basic domestic repairs andassembling flat-packed furniture. Almost all the prior courses completed by students focuson
engineering science and towards design-centeredactivities. The restructuring of how we educate aspiring engineers has taken place at theclassroom, departmental, and institutional levels. Laboratory and design courses have beenparticularly instrumental in this shift. Engaging learners within engineering courses has beenwidely studied and can occur through active and cooperative learning, experiences inside andoutside the classroom, interaction and support from experts, and the creation of supportivelearning environments that promotes challenge, effort, and social interaction.2 Across thesestrategies for engagement, design education is central to the engineering classroom. As design isa distinguishing activity done by engineers, design education
ParticipantIdea Pitches to rally to teams, for Workshops by EdExperts wherein students could learn moreabout a specific organization’s tools, and for a lab safety training to use the shop tools.Three topic categories enticed participants: Hands-On Learning, Digital Learning, and SystemsRe-Thinking. There were four key design parameters of the event— i) Three topic categorieswere framed: Hands-On Learning, Digital Learning, and Systems Re-Thinking, ii) EducationExperts were brought in to pitch Challenge Presentations, lead workshops, and serve as ad hocmentors, iii) A laboratory equipped with prototyping materials and a spending budget for eachstudent enabled physical project developments, and iv) Award categories were not matched to thethree topic
Practical Experience: Students will let you do thismaterials and expenses will be normally covered by project if you take charge. Resist the urge to useexisting laboratory sources. Some projects require your knowledge and experience to give themmore extensive (what is not normally in our labs) short-cuts and a path to a quick finish. You shouldmaterials and fabrications. Students are directed in use little of your brain on this. It is their project,the Capstone handbook to provide a bill of materials their design. If they do something stupid, theyand an assembly drawing with their requests for learn. If they continue to generate stupid design,purchases. Additional instrumentation and or special they
University. Adrienne’s research interests include electrokinetics, predominantly di-electrophoretic characterizations of cells, and the development of biomedical microdevices. She earned aNSF CAREER award and was nominated for Michigan Professor of the Year in 2014. Research within herMedical micro-Device Engineering Research Laboratory (M.D. – ERL) also inspires the development ofDesktop Experiment Modules (DEMos) for use in chemical engineering classrooms or as outreach activi-ties in area schools (see www.mderl.org). Adrienne is currently co-Chair of ASEE’s Diversity Committeeand PIC I Chair; she has previously served on WIED, ChED, and NEE leadership teams and contributedto 37 ASEE conference proceedings articles