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Capstone and Design Projects

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Antonio Jose Soares P.E., Florida A&M University; Doreen Kobelo, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Chao Li, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; G. Thomas Bellarmine P.E., Florida A&M University/Florida State University

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the main teaching platform. However, when presented with options,students never use this platform for class projects or capstone projects. Surveys showed that thiswas due to the fact that the laboratory experiments were topic specific and did not present asystem design approach which made it difficult for students who attempted to use thismicrocontroller [1]. A new platform, the C-Stamp microcontroller, was introduced as analternative for their design. This development boards provide a pre-assembled hardware platform,which include common peripheries in addition to programming libraries. These benefitsencouraged some students to implement the C-Stamp microcontroller in their senior designprojects with fairly successful outcomes [1]. The

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Capstone and Design Projects

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Tatiana V. Goris, Purdue University, Columbus, IN; Ana M. Djuric, Wayne State University; Petros J Katsioloudis, Old Dominion University; Nathan John Luetke, Old Dominion University; Moustafa R. Moustafa, Old Dominion University; Basim Matrood, Old Dominion University

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and supervised students helping them to acquire the neces- sary knowledge, education, technical, ethical and communication skills. He is well respected and recog- nized by our graduates for his contributions resulting in their career successes. Moustafa is in charge of the senior design project for the mechanical engineering technology department. He encourages seniors to work on practical projects. Some of these projects are provided by local industrial and manufacturing corporations as a result of personal contacts and relationships with alumni. This interaction has proven to be invaluable in the growth and development of our graduates and sometimes leads to hiring oppor- tunities. Moustafa has been instrumental

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Capstone and Design Projects

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric John Addeo, DeVry University; Nugroho Iwan Santoso, DeVry University, North Brunswick; Chao-Ying Wang, DeVry University, North Brunswick; Raul San Martin Rivadulla, Graduate Education

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. Page 26.1186.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 New Dimensions in Engineering Technology Education - Addition of An International Collaborative Component to the Undergraduate EET Senior Project ExperienceAbstractThis paper presents the outcomes of a new initiative that extends the current campus-centeredEET Capstone Senior Project activity at DeVry North Brunswick, NJ campus to a collaborativeinternational initiative that includes students from DeVry campus in Salvador, Brazil, creating amulti-team collaboration with geographically dispersed teams as part of this capstone SeniorProject course. The main focus of the work described in this paper is comprised of three

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Capstone and Design Projects

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohammad Moin Uddin, East Tennessee State University; Keith V. Johnson, East Tennessee State University

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4600: Technical Practicum is a senior level required capstone design course offered bythe department of engineering technology, surveying and digital media. This course is offeredevery semester and requires the student to synthesize and apply subject matter studies in previousrequired courses and apply them to a realistic problem solving effort. In the Fall 2013, the ENTC4600 course’s learning outcomes were modified to infuse global perspectives of engineeringproblems and solutions. In that semester, students explored international markets mainlydeveloping countries, identified an engineering and technology related problem with thecollaboration of a focus group (consists of international students), and then designed anddeveloped a solution to

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Capstone and Design Projects

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ahmed S. Khan, DeVry University, Addison; William Peter Herner; Christopher John Olejniczak, Devry University ; Kulsoom Ahmed

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system. When activated by aperson inside of the room, the system will process the signal and activate a flashing blue LED onthe outer panel, notifying which room the CODE BLUE is taking place. By integrating all ofthese functions into one device, it is now possible for hospital staff to know, simply by viewingthe room’s access panel, who is in that room. It allows for safe, hands-free access. And mostimportantly it integrates seamlessly with the hospital protocol and allows the hospital staff tofunction more efficiently with respect to patient monitoring and response. The paper covers thedetails of the design of hardware and software components of the system. I. DeVry University’s Senior Project Capstone Course SequenceDeVry

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Software Applications in ET Programs

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen A. Strom, Pennsylvania State University, Erie

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Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Innovative Embedded Systems ProjectAbstractThe goal of an Embedded Design course is to teach programming, embedded circuits and softwarealgorithms. There are also related goals, such as learning to use development tools, lab equipmentand proper debugging techniques. There are tangential goals such as working in teams andpreparation for senior/capstone projects. And while there are a variety of approaches to teaching,the common theme is that you want the students to be successful and understand the material asthoroughly as possible.Each year, there are new peripherals, new processors and most engineering departments do not takea static approach to education and try to include more

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Student Recruitment and Retention in ET Programs

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert J Durkin, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Paper ID #11262Summer Industrial Projects Program (SiPP) Drives Engineering TechnologyStudent RetentionProf. Robert J Durkin, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis Mr. Durkin teaches courses in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Technology; including the capstone design and independent study projects. He serves as a Faculty Senator and earned the 2013 Outstanding Teacher Award. He has over 25 years of engineering and manufacturing experience including; design, project management, and various engineering, research and manufacturing leadership roles. He has been awarded two US patents. He is an alumnus of

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Project-based Learning in ET Programs

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yonghui Wang, Prairie View A&M University; Suxia Cui, Prairie View A&M University

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is very important to find topics for students’ capstone design projects. This paperpresents an approach which successfully combines external funding resources, faculty expertise,and collaboration resources for a project-based learning environment. In 2010, authorscollaborated in a USDA supported project to establish an agricultural robotics lab and In 2012,authors collaborated in another USDA supported project to establish an intelligent equipment labboth in Prairie View A&M University. The overall objectives of the projects are to establish anagricultural robotics lab and intelligent equipment lab for precision agriculture on Prairie View

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Robotics, Automation, and Product Development

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph A. Morgan, Texas A&M University; Jay R Porter, Texas A&M University

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. These tools need to create prototypes with higher levels of functionalintegration necessary to accommodate a diverse selection of embedded intelligence, sensors,actuators, communications and data storage technologies. In addition, the turn-around time fromprototype to commercialized product continues to decrease so that companies can be first tomarket, thus gaining important market share. Although there are a number of hardwaredevelopment tools available, none of these fully meets the demanding requirements of theaerospace, automotive, communications, medical, petrochemical industries1. Based on a numberof successful applied research and capstone design projects, the Controls and Data HandlingBranch at National Aeronautics and Space

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Subjects in Renewable Energy and ET

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alamgir A. Choudhury, Western Michigan University; Jorge Rodriguez P.E., Western Michigan University

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a variety of design objectives toensure long term sustainability of products and processes. Design for Environment (DfE), orecodesign [7,8] aims to reduce the environmental impact in the life cycle of a product byenhancing its design objectives. It may also aim to reduce resource consumption, in terms ofmaterial, energy, and pollution prevention. Other concepts, such as Design for Disassembly(DfD) and Design for Recycling (DfR) practices [9,10,11], would also allow the productdesigner to have a substantial positive impact on the environmental aspects of a product’slifecycle.This paper presents an approach to the use of energy efficiency in product design in junior andsenior level curriculums and capstone design projects. Because of the

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Curriculum and New Course Development in ET

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ali Ahmad, Northwestern State University

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 IET 3510 Motion/Time FUNDAMENTALS  IET 3550 Material Major Courses  IET 1020 Engr Tools Handling MACHINING  IET 3570 Engineering CAPSTONE PROJECT  IET 1400 CAD  IET 2020 Machining  EET 4940 Project Design I  IET 2400 Adv CAD Economics (CAM)  IET 4700  IET 1800 Safety

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ETAC/ABET Related Issues

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jorge Crichigno, Northern New Mexico College; Ivan Lopez Hurtado, Northern New Mexico University; Raul R Peralta, Northern New Mexico College; Alfredo J. Perez Ph.D., Columbus State University

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Networks IIEECE Wireless and X X X342 Mobile ComputingIT 350 Database X X X ManagementEECE Web Engineering X355IT 410 Info. Assurance X X X X & SecurityEECE Software X X435 EngineeringEECE Advanced X X X X X X440 Computer NetworksENGR Engineering X X X X474 Project ManagementIT 490 Capstone I X X X X

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Curriculum and New Course Development in ET

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jay R Porter, Texas A&M University

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addition, the creation of this course hasincreased student interest in communications systems and RF electronics and electromagneticsand an increase in capstone projects involving these principles. As part of the course evaluation,students are asked if class activities are well prepared. Out of a total of five points, the averageresponse was 4.23 in Fall 2013 and 4.78 in Spring 2014. The students are also asked if theassignments and projects aided in achieving course objectives. The average response was 4.31 inFall 2013 and 4.72 in Spring 2014. One can see that the responses were good and also increasedfor the second offering of the course. This can be attributed to “fine tuning” that was done to theinteractive exercises and the course project

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Integrating Curriculum and Labs in ET Programs

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ying Zhang, Texas A&M University; Jyhwen Wang, Texas A&M University; Monish S. Mamadapur, Alcon Research, Ltd.

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. Page 26.1619.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Understanding Additive Manufacturing Part Performance through Modeling and Laboratory ExperimentsAbstractAdditive manufacturing (AM) has attracted extensive attention in recent years due to its wideapplications in academia and industry. As most of the AM parts are built layer by layer, it isclear that parts manufactured from AM processes would perform differently compared toparts manufactured from conventional processes such as casting and injection molding. Sincestudents often rely on AM for part fabrication in courses and capstone projects, and industriescould adopt AM to produce components for their products, there is a

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Integrating Curriculum and Labs in ET Programs

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Warren A. Rosen, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.); M. Eric Carr, Drexel University

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courses in both quality control and quality assurance areas as well as in thermal-fluid, energy conversion and mechanical areas from various levels of instruction and addressed to a broad spectrum of students, from freshmen to seniors, from high school graduates to adult learners. She also has extended experience in curriculum development. Dr Husanu developed laboratory activities for Measurement and Instrumentation course as well as for quality control undergraduate and graduate courses in ET Masters program. Also, she introduced the first experiential activity for Applied Mechanics courses. She is coordinator and advisor for capstone projects for Engineering Technology.Mr. M. Eric Carr, Drexel University Mr. Eric

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Various Prospectives in Power Systems

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Richard Walsh, Eastern Washington University

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underdevelopment. Students are being encouraged to get involved with this work in the form ofindependent studies or senior capstone projects. Such a project would require the studentor team to develop a significant component in PowerX to include design, development, Page 26.1604.13testing and documentation of their work.ConclusionThis paper presented an overview of a software application called PowerX that initiallystarted out as a research tool and eventually made its way into the classroom to helpstudents get a better understanding of power systems problems and solutions to theseproblems. For the most part, student response has been very positive and assessment

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ETAC/ABET Related Issues

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark A. Laingen, Illinois State University; Steven A. Freeman, Iowa State University; Thomas J Brumm, Iowa State University; Mack Shelley, Iowa State University

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ofimportant program learning outcomes, while over 67% identify internships and community-based projects as useful in “evaluating the graduates’ potential for success” [2, p. 18], and half ofthe employers target them as the place where institutions should devote the most resources forassessment [2]. Experiential learning environments provide places where “knowledge is created throughthe transformation of experience” [14, p. 41], while enhancing their learning experience [13]. Itis an authentic assessment environment that more closely simulates later types of learningsituations, and is “one of the truest forms of active learning” [16, p. 80] where students candemonstrate their knowledge and skills, and receive valuable feedback from the