increase occupants’ discomfort.This capstone project was led by an MET student (Mechanical Engineering Technology) atPurdue Polytechnic Kokomo. The objective of the project was to investigate temperaturedisturbances across an office space that can help solve temperature non-uniformity that wouldultimately help in saving HVAC energy consumption. The project built a temperature monitoringsystem by freely hanging temperature thermocouples in air throughout an office space. Thetemperatures at different locations were compared to a common reference point collected by athermocouple located near the room’s current thermostat. The study investigated theinstantaneous changes in temperature readings throughout the room during day and night timesunder normal
experiences.Capstone courses and projects are very important activities for student outcomes of an academicprogram. Capstone courses integrate and further build on the learning outcomes from many ofthe courses students study. Integrating mechatronics into a senior capstone design project is notalways possible. However, much like a senior capstone project, mechatronics is a course thatallows students to exercise their creativity and problem solving skills using project basedlearning and exercising teamwork. In this paper, sample capstone design projects usingmechatronics and their outcomes will be presented. In particular, this paper gives an overview ofthe developed devices specifically by focusing on the design and development aspects of theprototypes
(UGA) College of Engineering Capstone Syllabus, acapstone is a “two-semester sequence course that is project based and focused on problemframing, stakeholder analysis, concept generation, and project management skills.” The goal “isto review concepts in the design process and tools in design methodology with a focus onengineering systems development cycle. Students working in multidisciplinary teams areassigned to design problems that are open-ended, requiring creativity and involving iterativesolutions.” It continues to state that “Design systems will work independently with a facultymentor and adopts the design that can be rapid prototyped or manufactured and evaluated againstthe design requirements. Student teams present their design
learning in two senior-level courses: Integrated Engineering Design, which is asenior capstone course where students work on a design problem in interdisciplinary teams, andDesign & Manufacturing of BME Devices and Systems, where students work in teams on thedesign of biomedical devices and systems. Providing students with more opportunities to engagein project-based learning earlier in the curriculum would allow students to start developing theirprofessional, technical, and problem-solving skills at an earlier stage and to start putting theirknowledge into practice.One of the challenges of incorporating project-based learning early in an engineering curriculumis finding an appropriate project. The project must integrate knowledge, have real
extrusion) design and modeling (http://www.engr.iupui.edu/˜jz29/) c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Integration of SAE Student Competition with Project CourseAbstractIn the past, the project courses at our university do not have any metrics to measure their success in a real-worldenvironment. We recently merged a few capstone design teams with the Society of Automotive Engineers(SAE) student competitions. The outcome and benefit of the change are clear. The students are more motivatedand willing to adopt new technologies in their project courses. Through competitions, students learned how tocomplete the project in the context of system. The paper describes the technical details that the
teaching engineering design through project‐oriented capstone courses. Journal ofEngineering Education, 86(1), 17-28.[6] Mikesell, D. R., & Yoder, J. D. S. (2011). Teaching Dynamics with a Design Project.In American Society for Engineering Education. American Society for Engineering Education.[7] Fleischfresser, L. (2014). Random Group Problem-Based Learning in EngineeringDynamics. arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.5935.[8] Esche, S. K. (2002). Project-Based Learning (PBL) in a course on mechanisms and machinedynamics. World Transactions on Engineering and Technology Education, 1(2), 201-204.[9] Major, C. H. (2000). Assessing problem-based learning: A review and analysis of faculty-developed PBL course portfolios. Journal on Excellence in College
- facturing. Dr. Tseng published in many refereed journals such as IEEE Transactions, IIE Transaction, Journal of Manufacturing Systems and others. He has been serving as a principle investigator of many research projects, funded by NSF, NASA, DoEd, KSEF and LMC. He is currently serving as an editor of Journal of Computer Standards & Interfaces. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 The Future Laboratory: Leveraging Consumer Imaging Devices for Student Projects and Sustainable, Accessible STEM EducationIntroductionIndustry, healthcare and STEM education have often relegated chemical analysis, surfacecharacterization, bioassays, and measurements that require special types of
surveys fromgraduating seniors and alumni to focus on hands-on experience in the undergraduate program. Alongwith that, there has also been a focus on participating in competitions such as Shell-Eco Marathon byseniors for their capstone project. An opportunity arose to address both these issues by building anengine/chassis dynamometer.A funding request has been granted by a robotics company paving the way for design and build of anengine/chassis dynamometer. The dynamometer, in its first iteration, cost about $10,000 but a reviseddesign costs under $8,000. The dynamometer has been designed for Shell Eco Marathon competitionbut has found its uses in multiple projects over the past year, including a summer toboggan redesign fora local state park
D 0-59 FTwo mid-term exams are introduced to cover more topics, so students have a better and clearer idea aboutdifferent projects to work on. The major change is to introduce a Final project to be demonstrated on relevanttopics. The main goal is to generate ideas for a capstone project that is required of students and is nowintegrated in the new curriculum (ETEE 4099). Each student submits HWs (10%) based on the lectures givenon Number systems, Gates, Boolean Algebra, De-Morgan’s, Logic Minimization, Latches, Counters, ShiftRegisters, different applications like MUX/DEMUX, Encoder/Decoder, Half/Full Adder etc. The students sitfor two mid-term exams (each 20%) and a final exam (20%). The first mid-term exam is
shown in Table 1. The total number of the enrolled students was 193, with 131 studentsresponding. The average course grade was 3.89 out of 5.0 scale, and the average numerical gradeearned by the students was 2.95 out of 4.0 scale. From the students’ feedback, some of themhave shown positive appreciation of lab organization that helped their learning saying the labmaterial was very well thought out and interesting. After they take these courses, they continuewith their education with other courses such as Capstone project courses. From their verbalcommunication, I have heard positive outcomes from the term project experience.IV. Discussion & ConclusionsThe author had been constantly striving to shift the emphasis from the MSP430 to
-AnywhereLaboratories – where students choose when they will perform their physical hardwareexperiments and where they wish to conduct these experiments. For this study students canperform all the physical experiments within their home environment using a variety of locallyavailable resources coupled with a box of sensors and controllers as part of an otherwise virtualor online course. Our idea of an online experimentation course was proposed in 2017. The initialexploration was the focus of a senior capstone project at the institution, where the idea andpotential implementations were tested.[6] The students performed a trade-space analysis ofavailable sensors, controllers and microcontrollers and selected a set that was roughly equivalentto the cost of
powerful, GD seemed almosttoo flexible and complicated to a number of students whose computer literacy was stilldeveloping. In following semesters, we plan to use BBL as main platform, supplemented byGD.Introduction“Introduction to Engineering Design” is a course taken mostly by first- and second-year studentsin the Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering programs at California State University, Chico.This course represents the first engineering design experience for most students in the programs.Students are instructed to keep a notebook in most of lab- and project-oriented courses in ourcurriculum, including “Measurements and Instrumentation” and the senior Capstone designproject. Specific format of these notebooks may vary, depending on the
Paper ID #26087Design of Flipped Classroom Model for a Computer-Aided Structural Anal-ysis Design and Experimentation CourseDr. Rupa Purasinghe, California State University, Los Angeles Dr. Purasinghe is a Professor of Civil Engineering at California State University at Los Angeles and coordinates Freshman Civil Engineering Design and Capstone Design courses as well as the Computer Aided Structural Analysis/Design and Experimentation Lab.Mr. Akshay Ghanshyam Patel, Pramukh Mono-Strand Structures Pvt. Ltd. Akshay Patel, managing director, Pramukh Mono-Strand Structures Pvt. Ltd., was a graduate student in Civil Engineering
, fabrication, and use of a bench-scale hybrid automotive powertrain.Although not a competition per se, students in this project were immersed in a hands-onengineering project and developed a test stand for use by subsequent students.Senior capstone projects are a natural fit for these types of projects, as the courses attempt tobring together all the fundamental learning into one design exercise. Earlier experiences are alsorelated to this work and provide a proving ground and student recruitment tool for senior projectselection. Such work is performed by Singh Chawla and Leonhardt [5] who describe a projectthat links junior and senior work to the optimization of an FSAE chassis. Previous experimentalwork in the context of a junior-level
thechallenge were chosen to be interdisciplinary to bring the students to a realistic mindsetand learn skills that are normally needed in addressing real life challenges.Our curriculum for the bachelor of science degree embodies several classes that studentswork in as a group with a client. Also, there are other courses where students may workas individuals on complex projects. Some students work on capstone thesis that mayrequire certain sophistication that match research conducted in faculty labs; see Figure (1)for examples. What distinguishes the cases we are addressing here is the diversity of thegroup, coming from international universities and the short time to achieve the goals forthe project, thus introducing elements of urgency and
, P. Iglesias, K. N. Leipold, and J. D. Wellin, “Recent developments in engineering measure- ments lab,” 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2015, https://peer.asee.org/24647. [7] Purdue University, “Catme smarter teamwork,” https://info.catme.org/about/overview/. [8] B. Oakley, R. Felder, R. Brent, and I. Elhajj, “Turning student groups into effective teams,” Journal of Student Centered Learning, 2004. [9] PASCO Scientific, “Pasco 2.0 capstone user’s guide,” www.pasco.com, 2020.[10] E. Selvi, S. Soto-Caban, R. S. Taylor, and W. R. Wilson, “Similar consecutive bridge design projects for fresh- men and sophomore level engineering courses,” 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2011, https
Engineer in my spare time. In addition to biomedical research, I have been interested in engineering education since 2011. I am an active member of ASEE, and have published a number of papers in the area of student learning, capstone design, etc.Miss Emily Teresa Carbaugh, University of Wisconsin, Platteville I am a junior electrical engineering student at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Work in Progress: Application of Internet of Things (IoT) in remote lab checkoffAbstract: Many colleges and universities provide education for students who are unable toattend classes in person, called distance learning
learning.IntroductionIt has long been recognized that engineers need strong communication skills in addition to strongtechnical skills.1, 2 Engineers typically take a sequence of composition and rhetoric courses dur-ing the freshmen year. These courses are followed by other writing experiences more technical innature, including formal reports in laboratory courses and writing associated with the capstone de-sign experience. Many creative attempts have been made to improve writing frequency and qualityin academic programs. One example is the PITCH (Project to Integrate Technical Communica-tion Habits) initiative at the University of New Haven.3 The goal is to develop communicationskills (written, oral, and visual) and professional habits in engineering students
Ibrahim is a civil engineer who is passionate about the sustainability of global cities. She is a triple graduate of the University of Toronto, and holds a BASc (2000), MASc (2003), and PhD (2015) in Civil Engineering, and a Certificate of Preventive Engineering and Social Development. Nadine has leveraged her industry experience to expand her inquiry into cities through urban and environmental projects in Canada and abroad. In 2010, she received the Early Career Award, awarded by the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at U of T to one alumnus, in celebration of 10 years of achievements. From undergrad research in structural engineering, into sustainable infrastructure in grad school, her vision is to connect
innovative solutions require theintegration of introductory computer programming and microcontroller functions with electricaland mechanical engineering applications. Students mention the open ended, hands-on activitiesin the course feedback as relevant applications that helped them improve their understanding andappreciation for the theory learned in the classroom. Additionally, students have learned toincorporate some of the lab requirements into their senior capstone projects. Working throughthe labs provides an excellent vehicle for deeper understanding and solving open-ended problemswhile contributing to a number of ABET student outcomes.IntroductionIndustry has recognized the need for engineers with a multidisciplinary background
the University of Virginia (UVA), a hybrid model was adopted. Students were giventhe option to take the class 100% remotely, or they could attend lab in person every other week.During the second week of the semester, entire sections met online for team forming. Thoughsome attempt was made to group in-person students in the same team, several teams had a mixof in-person and remote students. The curriculum was redesigned into two-week blocks. Duringthe ‘on’ week, students collected data from an experiment they performed in person or watchedvirtually. During the ‘off’ week, they worked in teams on various activities including report peerreview workshops, a team project, and post-processing of the previous week’s experiments. Thispaper will
and sensors formeasuring common engineering quantities such as pressure, strain, temperature, etc. In addition,this course serves as the primary lab experience in thermofluids, covering experimentaltechniques for measuring heat transfer coefficients, analyzing heat exchanger efficiency, andmeasuring wind turbine behavior in a wind tunnel. A term long group project requires students todevelop, execute, and report on a measurement experiment of their own choosing. This course isdesigned to particularly prepare students for their senior year capstone design experience bygiving them practice in open ended projects and higher level analysis skills. The author hastaught this course as the sole instructor since Fall 2010.ME4505 has seven major lab
capstone project, where students designed an assembly, used the propertolerances, optimized their print in Cura, and then submitted their files to the course instructor orto Innovation Commons for printing. Again, the students did not print their own designs.The course was run in this format for two semesters. Feedback was gathered from the studentsvia informal surveys and Student Ratings of Teaching Effectiveness (SRTEs). The course washighly anticipated by the ME students. Two sections were offered in both the Fall 2016 andSpring 2017 semesters; and both sections filled quickly with students requesting additional seatsin the course. Student feedback was mixed. The students enjoyed the course and learned thetopics that were presented to them, but
Paper ID #23018Is a Virtual Reality-based Laboratory Experience a Viable Alternative to theReal Thing?James R. McCusker Ph.D., Wentworth Institute of Technology James R. McCusker is an Associate Professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Since joining Wentworth in 2010, he has been heavily involved with an array of interdisciplinary design courses that range from introductory to capstone courses.Mr. Mohammed A. Almaghrabi, Wentworth Institute of Technology Mohammed A. Almaghrabi is a Trainee Engineer at ASM Process Automation, where he helps developing factory automation
additive manufacturing makerspace (AMM) into two separate rooms calledbasic and advance 3D printing makerspaces, as shown in Figure 2. Basic 3D printings are mostlyfor the freshman and sophomore engineering students who are just learning 3D printing. Whileadvance 3D printing makerspace are dedicated to more serious 3D printing projects of junior andsenior engineering students for making functional parts and prototypes of advance materials(composites, ceramics, metals) for their industry led capstone project or upper division classprojects. The AMM houses various types of AM technologies such as fused deposition modeling(FDM) aka fused filament fabrication (FFF) for polymers and composites, Continuous FilamentFabrication (CFF) for composites
. Sirinterlikci, K. G. Jr. Moran, C. S. Kremer, B. A. Barnes, J. Cosgrove, and S. A. III Colosimo, “A Capstone Project on Design and Development of a Digital Light Processing 3D Printer, 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Proceedings, Seattle, WA, June 14-17, 2015. Paper ID 14128[33] N. Jaksic, “MAKER: 3-D–Printing Evolution in Engineering Education: The Things We Make,” 2016 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Proceedings, New Orleans, LA, June 26-29, 2016. Paper ID 16253[34] Anon, Thingiverse, Accessed on Feb. 4, 2018. from https://www.thingiverse.com/[35] A. Bandura, Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control, W. H. Freeman and Company, NY, 1997.
Morgan State University. He has authored and co-authored several publications with the recent one on the use of additive manufacturing in building a liquid propellant rocket engine nozzle.Dr. Seong W. Lee, Morgan State University Dr. Lee is currently Professor & Lab Director of Industrial & Systems Engineeing Deparment at Morgan State University.Dr. Lee has been actively involed in development of laboratory hands-on experimental projects using his ongoing research projects to be implemented and used in his teaching classes and capstone design projects.Dr. Gbekeloluwa B. Oguntimein P.E., Morgan State University Dr. Gbekeloluwa B. Oguntimein received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Iowa
science, novel methods for environmental re- mediation, and microelectronics including surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices. In addition to teaching in the field of electrical engineering, he coordinates the senior engineering capstone program which is a multidisciplinary, two-semester course sequence with projects sponsored by industrial partners. Within this role, he focuses on industrial outreach and the teaching and assessment of professional skills. He received his Ph.D. and S.M. degrees from MIT in 2007 and 1999, respectively, and a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Virginia in 1997.Dr. Hayrettin B. Karayaka, Western Carolina University Bora Karayaka is an Associate Professor at the College of Engineering and
currently the Chair of the Department of Teaching & Learning at Washington State Uni- versity. He has collaborated with engineering scholars on numerous projects, providing expertise in cur- riculum and instruction, learning, and K-12 schools.Dr. Phillip Himmer, Montana State University Phillip Himmer received his B.S. in Physics at Washington State University and M.S. in physics at Mon- tana State University. He obtained his PhD in engineering at Montana State University in the Electrical Engineering department. His PhD research focused on the design and fabrication of micro-optical elec- tromechanical systems for aberration correction in imaging systems. As a postdoctoral researcher at Montana State University he
undertake more open-ended inquiry. With each step in thisprogression, the student is given increasing amounts of autonomy in making decisions about howto conduct the investigation, and eventually what to investigate and why. This aligns with thedevelopmental assumption underlying the Thirteen Objectives; these were always intended to becumulative and apply over the entire undergraduate program and not be the outcome of any onelaboratory experience [6]. With the possible exception of a capstone research project, arguablyfew undergraduate students get to experience a level 3 lab.Several of the Thirteen Fundamental Objectives of Engineering Instructional Laboratories [4]point to a broader conception of what might be encompassed by lab. For instance