ProjectsSeveral engineering service-learning projects have been accomplished at Cal Poly Pomona.Every one of them requires a common engineering sense built on the fundamental subjects andsofter skills developed in general education classes as well as engineering and science classes,particularly the team-oriented laboratory classes. A brief summary of some of the projects aregiven below:Robot FIRSTA group of engineering students teamed up to support Robotics Alliance of West Covina, a localrobotics community for teaching and assisting local high school students of West Covina HighSchool in designing and constructing a robot for the FIRST Robotics competition. FIRST standsfor “For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology” and is an initiative
need.The Integrated Engineering program is in its 6th year of implementation and the curriculum hasundergone two cycles of iteration. The curriculum is shown in Figure 2. It includes 120 credithours. As can be seen from this figure, the curriculum is strong in the fundamentals and includesseveral design laboratory courses which form the backbone of the program. Furthermore, it ismuch broader than any of the traditional engineering programs. Graduates of the program arealso required to pass the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam in order to graduate.The Integrated Engineering program produced its first graduated class (eight students) in May2004. All of the graduates have found employment at or before graduation, with salaries rangingfrom
committee for the 2012 Capstone Design Conference and is a member of the CDHub web development team. He holds the position of Professor of Practice at The Ohio State University.Dr. Clifford A Whitfield, Ohio State University Received his Ph.D. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Ohio State University in 2009, and is currently working as Lecturer and Senior Researcher for the Engineering Education Innovation Center and the Aeronautical and Astronautical Research Laboratories at Ohio State. Page 23.560.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013Examining the Impacts
would make use of scrap material and that their study time would beoptimized since they could concentrate on only one project per semester instead of many otherassignments.3.3 The infrastructureSince none of the members had any experience with similar hybrid models, there was nostructure to support the amount of work going on simultaneously. Students demanded places tostore, build and test their projects as well as the machines and tools essential to building them.None of this was provided for, since only the traditional laboratory facilities for demonstrationsand small experiments were in place.3.4 The other departmentsAs the first projects began to be implemented, coordinators of other disciplines found themselvesin an uncomfortable position
Engineering (CEE) and Electrical andComputer Engineering (ECE) students together for the first semester, and they are separated intotheir disciplines during the second semester. A final project in the second semester was desiredthat could bring the students back together to make discipline-specific contributions to a multi-disciplinary project. The chosen project was a hydroelectric generation project in which the MEstudents designed a water wheel to work in a laboratory flume, the ECE students designed apermanent-magnet generator with wireless monitoring, and the CEE students designed astructure to support the wheel and generator. In addition to designing their respectivecomponents, the students had to communicate between disciplines to define
describedengineering degrees as possessing “a remarkably homogenous curriculum and pedagogy”. Theydescribe this curriculum as a building block curriculum, where the four main building blocks areanalysis, laboratory, ethics and design. The first order of business in these degrees is to establishdisciplinary expertise, to deliver technical knowledge to the student. Sheppard et al. note that theportion of the degree that is most clearly related to building broad understanding, the generaleducation requirements, is viewed by engineering faculty as a hurdle faced in the delivery oftechnical knowledge. It is interesting to note that electives do not appear in Sheppard et al.’sdiscussion. Indeed, the discipline specific engineering degree is often designed to be
counterparts in succeeding. Moving toward achieving this goal, thedepartment has allowed a new option to complete the required Senior Project course. The courseis required for the bachelor of computer science which consists of 120-semester credit hours ofcourse and laboratory instruction; the Senior Project is intended to provide an integratededucational experience or capstone [1-8]. Although the course is a one-credit-hour, one semestercourse, it is in fact a comprehensive course which requires a broad range of skills acquired overthe student’s course of study. Many studies have shown the importance of the Design Project inintegrating different aspects of their course work [1-8]. The new option allows students,especially females ones, to take
sponsored by industry, and two projects were service-learning projectswith external customers. Each industry project sponsor provided a donation to the college andalso provided funding for all of the necessary materials for the project. The donations were usedto help fund the course, which included student travel to the sponsor site and funding for theservice-based projects.Students were provided a dedicated laboratory space in which they could work on and store theirprojects. Figure 1 shows students working on two of the projects, the robotic mower and thespin bike power meter. All sponsors of the projects were very satisfied with the final products.Two of the projects are being continued on as projects for capstone design courses, and two
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AC 2011-531: THE MONTANA MULE: A CASE STUDY IN INTERDISCI-PLINARY CAPSTONE DESIGNBrock J. LaMeres, Montana State University Dr. Brock J. LaMeres is an Assistant Professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at Montana State University (MSU). LaMeres teaches and conducts research in the area of digital systems and engineering education. LaMeres is currently studying the effectiveness of online delivery of engi- neering education including the impact of remote laboratory experiences. LaMeres is also studying the pedagogical impact of interdisciplinary capstone projects compared to traditional discipline-specific de- sign projects. LaMeres’ research group is also studying the effective hardware
a strong grasp of the basic physical principles underlying several medical imaging modalities. 2. Demonstrate a solid understanding of the concepts of medical image acquisition, image formation and display methods. 3. Apply the concepts learnt in class to solve problems in medical image reconstruction, image processing and analysis. 4. Demonstrate an appreciation for the strengths and weaknesses of various imaging modalities and what kind of anatomical and physiological information can be obtained from them.Each of the courses has a strong laboratory component to provide hands-on experience for thestudent in a realistic setting. The CIS department has a state of the art
andbiomimetics [2]. Creating a center where students can see ongoing robotics research projectsencourages innovation and is the first step to creating new projects. Page 22.674.8 Figure 6: Studio Laboratory layout for Robotics Lab sectionWhat Works Well and What Needs ImprovementThe lab exercises have been well received by students, and have generally been completed in thetwo hour lab period provided. Student teams are working well together and have been resolvingteam workload issues without instructor or TA intervention. Teams seem to appreciate choosingtheir own project, and very much enjoy the hands-on nature of the projects and the
feasibility of the design,and make decisions leading to an optimal system design. System integration, human factorsengineering, computer-aided design, maintainability, and fabrication techniques are addressed.This course provides an integrative experience in support of the overarching academic programgoal, and is often interdisciplinary in nature. Students spend extensive time in projectdevelopment laboratories fabricating and refining their final products.The course learning objectives are: • Apply the Engineering Design Process to design and build creative solutions for open- ended engineering problems. • Work effectively within a multidisciplinary design team in a professional and ethical manner. • Develop and conduct experiments
. Page 22.74.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 A Multidisciplinary Senior Design Project – Redesigned to Increase Interdisciplinary InteractionAbstractAn interdisciplinary team design experience has been conducted successfully for severalyears as part of the senior engineering laboratory effort at Western New England College.Recent modifications have been made to the project to increase the amount ofinterdisciplinary interaction during the project. For the past several years, students havedesigned, fabricated, and tested a solar-powered vehicle. This vehicle designed totransport two one-liter bottles of water uphill using wireless hobby-servos for steeringcontrol. During the
. "Integrated Teaching of Experimental and Communication Skills toUndergraduate Aerospace Engineering Students," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 86, no. 3, 1997, pp. 255--262.9. Joe Linhoff , Amber Settle, Motivating and evaluating game development capstone projects, Proceedings of the4th International Conference on Foundations of Digital Games, April 26-30, 2009, Orlando, Florida10. Ian Parberry , Timothy Roden , Max B. Kazemzadeh, Experience with an industry-driven capstone course ongame programming: extended abstract, Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer scienceeducation, February 23-27, 2005, St. Louis, Missouri, USA11. Robert W. Sumner , Nils Thuerey , Markus Gross, The ETH game programming laboratory: a capstone
NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST).Prof. Mehmet C. Ozturk, North Carolina State University Mehmet C. Ozturk received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey in 1980. He received his MS degree from Michigan Tech in 1983 and his PhD degree from NC State University in 1988. Immediately after graduation, he joined the faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Since 2008, Dr. Ozturk has been serving as the director of the NCSU Nanofabrication Facility, which operates as the central laboratory for the entire University. In 2012, he became the education and
b.1 Observe good laboratory safety procedures have an ability to b.2 Formulates an experimental plan of data gathering conduct experiments, as b.3 Carefully documents data collected well as to analyze and b.4 Develops and implements logical experimental procedures3b interpret data related to b.5 Selects appropriate equipment and instruments to perform manufacturing the experiment processes, materials b.6 Is able to operate instrumentation and process equipment evaluation, and manufacturing systems.2. Why do engineers need education in statistics?Study of statistics creates in an engineer the ability for
received his BS and MS degress in Mechanical Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology. Jeff has also worked for the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, Southco, Pall Filtration, and as a Teaching Assistant at RIT. His thesis and duties at RIT focused mainly in the area of Robotics. He can be reached at coolwebb@gmail.com.Mark Smith, Rochester Institute of Technology MARK SMITH is Director of the Multidisciplinary Design (MSD), Product Development (MPD), and Manufacturing Leadership (MML) programs at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Prior to joining RIT, he spent nearly 20 years in medical electronics R&D. Mr. Smith has an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of
facultymember from these disciplines who are actively involved in each weekly class session. Theweekly 3-hour class sessions are taught as a “laboratory” experience with students mainlyinvolved in active learning of fundamental principles for effective interdisciplinary collaboration.Students work in mixed teams toward a tangible solution to a community health challenge as partof the course project for the duration of the semester. The class is taught in a MakerSpace; anovel instructional space developed according to constructivist learning principles26 in whichparticipants co-learn and co-create27. The MakerSpace is an essential element of the course, as itfacilitates students’ problem solving through prototyping and testing a solution with
them to beworthwhile educational experiences through which students achieved specific outcomes. It wasessential to structure the projects with milestones, align with lecture classes and providecontinuous technical support and guidance. This has led to NEET creating a full-time budgetedproject instructor role termed the Lead Laboratory Technical Instructor who in collaboration withthe faculty and other teaching staff, is responsible for tactical execution and operational oversightof all the project-centric aspects of the thread. The outcomes from these mini-workshops arebeing aggregated to create the NEET Projects Handbook. This will help inform design of theprojects that are being planned in the NEET threads during 2018-19.To summarize, the
partnership with Sandia National Laboratories.5 Winner of the 2006 NationalAcademy of Engineering’s Gordon Prize for Engineering Education,6 the partners developedshared curriculum materials and degree options in product realization or manufacturing to helpbring real-world experiences into the engineering classroom. For capstone design in particular,the Learning Factory fosters university-industry partnerships whereby industrial sponsors andclients interact with students and faculty through hands-on capstone design projects. Initially,these projects primarily engaged mechanical engineering, industrial engineering (manufacturingtrack), and electrical engineering students at Penn State; however, the program has expandedsignificantly over the past five
in-person laboratory experiences. The course used the video conferencing clientZoom as the primary method of communication. If virtual and in-person learning was happeningsynchronously, the Zoom call was projected in the classroom so that all students could see andhear each other. A video and audio feed was also available from the classroom so that studentscould hear each other across platforms.ResultsThe results of both Cohort A and Cohort B’s activities were extremely promising. Students inCohort A had statistically significant improvements in the number of other students they feltcomfortable working with over the course of the semester. At the start of the semester, studentsidentified in the survey that they were willing to work with an
uncertainty.The learning throughout the course is intended to give the students a toolbox to aid in theirperformance of a team project authentic to engineering practice.The course does not use a standard textbook but is built from a common “textbook” of core topiclessons and examples authored by previous instructors, supplemented with materials, lessons,and topics curated by individual instructors, such that the course has common elements, but eachinstructor offers a different interpretation.In the Fall of 2020, the course was presented in synchronous remote mode using Blackboardcourseware delivered over a Zoom platform. The course allows for class time to performteamwork as part of a laboratory component, and breakout rooms were used for this purpose
enhance student learning in a senior feedback controls lecturecourse," ASEE Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA.[5] Parker, J. M., Canfield, S. L., and Ghafoor, S. K., 2014, "Using hardware-basedprogramming experiences to enhance student learning in a junior-level systems modelingcourse," ASEE Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN.[6] Candelas, F., Garcia, G. J., Puente, S., Pomares, J., Jara, C. A., Pérez, J., Mira, D., andTorres, F., 2015, "Experiences on using Arduino for laboratory experiments of automatic controland robotics," IFAC-PapersOnLine, 48(29), pp. 105-110.[7] Reguera, P., García, D., Domínguez, M., Prada, M., and Alonso, S., 2015, "A low-cost opensource hardware in control education. Case study: Arduino-feedback MS-150,"IFACPapersOnLine
Paper ID #34191Assessing the Value and Implementation of Interdisciplinary Activitiesin Academic Makerspaces and Machine ShopsDr. Lennon Rodgers, University of Wisconsin – Madison Lennon Rodgers is currently the Director of the Design Innovation Lab at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, which includes a makerspace, machine shop and a set of interdisciplinary design programs. He earned his PhD and M.S. from MIT and B.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (all mechanical engineering). Previously he worked at MIT as a Research Scientist and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as an engineer. All of his
to enhance theoverall quality of life in their cities. Collaborative, community-based projects to improve thebuilt environment can serve as a laboratory for student engagement, providing valuableexperience in a practical, real-world setting. The UAB Civil Engineering department has made aparticular effort to involve undergraduate and graduate engineering students in community-basedinitiatives with the goal of enhancing engineering education while improving the communitiessurrounding the university.Such efforts need not be ad hoc. Because of the successful involvement of engineering studentsin community-based initiatives, the UAB Civil Engineering department has developed a 3-credithour elective course where students can be part of this
university usually did not follow theseguidelines although they believed writing to be an important tool for student to learn andunderstand.Universities and colleges have implemented various forms of writing for engineers over theyears; however, the implementations have mainly been at the course level and not an overallcurriculum change [4]. The need to assess the ABET outcome communicating with a broadaudience is usually the main driver of these changes with programs assessing how well thestudents communicate within the criteria set for the respective assignments. This means that thewriting is usually limited to laboratory write-ups, small class project reports, and a capstonepaper (usually written as a team). In addition, most programs offer no
. • Topics: design process, creative design, project management, team work, business basics, product / project lifecycles. (possibly could have ethics and oral/written communication) • Multi-disciplinary project assigned. D. Freshman course • “How Things Work” – show the interdisciplinary nature of engineered products, engineering projects, and their manufacture/construction. • Hands-on laboratory (product teardowns, field trips) E. Suite of Design • Create a suite of design electives organized
. in biological sciences and his B.S. in environ- mental health engineering from Northwestern University (1995), and he earned his M.S. (1998) in envi- ronmental health engineering and his Ph.D. (2002) from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has completed postgraduate coursework in Microbial Ecology from the Marine Biology Laboratory, in Public Health from The Johns Hopkins University, and Public Administration from Indiana University, Bloomington. Oerther is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE, Ohio), Board Certified in Environmental Engineering (BCEE) by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientist (AAEES), and registered as a Chartered Engineer (CEng) by the U.K. Engineering