Oxide materials and devices. His current research interests include development of semiconductor heterostructures and nanostructures for high efficiency light emitting devices and biosensors. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Capstone: Rules of Engagement Afroditi V. Filippas and Ümit Özgür Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284AbstractThe execution of the Capstone project at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School ofEngineering is one of the most intense educational experiences for the student teams and theirinstructors/mentors. For many students, it is the first
design lifecycle Engage in community-based educational activitiesWith these goals in mind the Capstone Experience was designed so a team of three or fourstudents would form small “consulting engineering” companies and then, over the course of twoquarters (six months), work on projects submitted by companies in the area.The student teams are mentored by an engineer or manager at the company and “managed” atour university by part-time faculty from the local industrial talent pool. The Capstone facultybrings the necessary real-world experience and soft skills, such as creating and trackingschedules that students need to execute their projects within the allotted time.In Capstone I the student team creates their development contract. It is then
Engineering Education, 2017 Design and Implementation of a Wireless GPS-Based Bicycle Tracking Device for Capstone DesignAbstractThe need to track the locations of bicycles in an Automatic Bicycle Rental System presentsseveral challenges for control, communication, power management, reliability, and security. Thispaper details an effective bicycle-tracking system designed as part of a capstone project thataddresses these challenges. Additionally, a number of student learning outcomes were assessed.1 IntroductionThe Automatic Bicycle Rental System (ABRS) is an engineering capstone design project at YorkCollege of Pennsyvania1. This project was a collaboration of mechanical, computer, andelectrical engineering
SystemsTable 1: Basic structure of the two course EE sequence for non-EE majorsAs shown in Table 1, the second EE course both builds off the previous course, as well asintroducing topics quite separate from a traditional electrical or electronics topic sequence. Thereason the first course is kept somewhat generic with light coverage of three distinct topics(circuits, electronics, digital systems) is because it serves a wide population of non-EE students.The second course in the sequence is almost exclusively manufacturing students who rely on thecourse to prepare them both for their capstone project and for a subsequent robotics elective.Previous offerings (Spring 2015 and Spring 2014) of EE 352 followed a traditional structure of 3hours of lecture
cost of all components in our system, whichincludes the base unit and four experimental daughter boards, is under $1000 in single unitquantities.11The Remote EE Lab has been a very successful source of capstone projects for our senior students. Itworks as it was intended to work, and we expect to deploy a number of the stations in our EE lab sostudents can work on their EE lab experiments when it is convenient for them. At some point, itwould be quite beneficial to us if Intronix, the manufacturer of the LogicPort logic analyzer, wouldprovide or license a public API so that applications could be better integrated with their excellentlogic analyzer.11 This cost can be reduced even further by using off-shore PCB fabricators and adopting a lower
engineering degree programs, includes combined with an embedded computer on mobileproviding a two-semester capstone project designexperience. In a few cases, undergraduate electrical 1platforms to demonstrate automatic following Details of these technologies were received asscenarios in indoor environments.Figure 1.0 Illustration of stop-and-go and adaptive cruisecontrol (ACC) technologies. Figure 2.0 Raspberry Pi 2B Single Board Computer intriguing by
framework to connect and integrate the individual courses.This goal of the lab framework is to make students aware of the big picture, help them to connectthe individual subjects, and apply and integrate the previous learning in a new context. The labs cover the entire computer engineering curriculum, including freshman engineering,introductory digital systems, advanced digital systems, computer organization, embeddedsystems, hardware-software co-design, and senior capstone design. The complexities andabstraction levels of the experiments and projects gradually grow. The key concepts are repeatedin different courses with increasing sophistication and studied from different aspects andcontexts, such as hardware implementation versus software
increased from the new courses approach to teaching its core topics. References[1] D. R. S.-M. Dr. Afsaneh Minaie. "Capstone Projects in a Computer Engineering Program Using Arduino," 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. New Orleans, 2016, pp.[2] D. S. G. N. Dr. Jose Antonio Riofrio. "Teaching Undergraduate Introductory Course to Mechatronics in the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Using Arduino," 120th ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. Atlanta, GA, 2013, pp.[3] D. Y. E. Dr. Warren Rosen, Mr. M. Eric Carr. "An Autonomous Arduino-based Racecar for First-Year Engineering Technology Students," 121st ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. Indianapolis, IN, 2014
Singapore, in Singapore. He has also done biomedical research during post doctorate research positions at the Uni- versity of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan), and Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN). He has taught classes for and been an advisor on capstone senior design projects for Wentworth students in the programs of electrical engineering, computer engineering, electromechanical engineering, and biomedical engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Using Telecommunication Instructional Modelling System (TIMS) in Communications Systems CourseAbstract:Conventional courses in communications systems use lecture and readings to explain
Col- leges; ”Building Learning Communities to Improve Student Achievement: Albany City School District” , and ”Educational Leadership Program Enhancement Project at Syracuse University” Teacher Leadership Quality Program. She is also the PI on both ”Syracuse City School District Title II B Mathematics and Science Partnership: Science Project and Mathematics MSP Grant initiatives.Dr. Ali Reza Osareh, North Carlina A&T State University Ali Osareh received his PhD from Virginia tech in 1994. He has worked in the industry including wireless design before joining the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina Agricul- tural and Technical State University in 2000. He is specializing in Energy
development of "Introduction to Embedded Computing," which provided avaluable model for both pedagogical approaches as well as laboratory and instructor resourcesthat would be required.7 All of these courses are taught in a studio style in which the laboratoryand lecture material are combined into a single cohesive period and in the same physical space,as shown in Figure 1. Each class meeting typically consists of a short lecture in which conceptsthat are relevant to the experiment are introduced followed by the experimental section of themeeting; all classes have both experimental, and lecture components and each course in thesequence is taught each semester. Educational research has demonstrated the effectiveness of hands-on project-based learning
capstone design project reports. However,the difference here is to have a structure to provide multiple formative feedbacks from theinstructor, the peers, and the student writing fellow (trained by the writing center) to helpstudents reflect on their weaknesses in writing through multiple interactions and assessment overa period of a semester. Furthermore, this vigorous writing-to-learn process is repeated in twosubsequent courses to ensure students proficiency in the process. In this format, the benefits ofusing writing-to-learn methodology have been expressed in many ways in the literature, such asimproved student writing, increased student learning and engagement, student-facultyinteraction, collaborative learning, and critical thinking to name
is the course director in circuits and electronics area. She taught variety of underrated and graduate courses including capstone design in Electrical and Computer Engineering area. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Embedding YouTube Videos and Interactions in PowerPoint Using Office Mix for Adaptive Learning in Support of a Flipped Classroom Instruction John M. Santiago, Jr., Ph.D. and Jing Guo, D.Eng. Colorado Technical University (CTU), College of Engineering, Colorado Springs, COBackground on Using Camtasia and YouTubeShortly after retiring from the United States Air Force in 2003, the Professor Santiagoinvestigated the viability of teaching engineering