McMaster University.Dr. Stephen Andrew Wilkerson, P.E., York College of Pennsylvania Stephen Wilkerson (swilkerson@ycp.edu) received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1990 in Mechanical Engineering. His Thesis and initial work was on underwater explosion bubble dynamics and ship and submarine whipping. After graduation he took a ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 An Interdisciplinary Myoelectric Prosthetic Hand Capstone ProjectAbstractInterdisciplinary capstone projects have been used in engineering education to provide studentsan opportunity to collaborate on a project with students from other disciplines that are differentfrom their
-course sequences that constitute the capstone designexperience. In the first course, student teams learn about the formal engineering design processand project management then develop a detailed proposal for a project to be implemented in thefollowing semester. Over the years, students from both electrical engineering and electricalengineering technology have worked in teams to complete their capstone projects. Whileelectrical engineering students may have a strong theoretical background, electrical engineeringtechnology students have strong hands-on experience, an important skill for building andtroubleshooting electronic systems. This paper provides details about our approach incoordinating the activities in the two-course capstone design
conferences worldwide. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Redesigning Senior Capstone Sequence with Multidisciplinary, Industry-Sponsored ProjectsAbstractCapstone projects performed by engineering senior students in the last year of their studies are aconstituent of the undergraduate curriculums and have a significant role in students’ futurecareers. Currently, some, if not most, of these projects across the country are proposed bystudents and approved by program faculty members. As a result, the projects may not fulfill therequirements published by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) forthe engineering technology baccalaureate-level programs
Paper ID #39686Evaluating Student Project Choice, Course Satisfaction, and Performancebetween Community Service, Internal Projects, and Industry-SponsoredProjects in a Multidisciplinary Industry-Sponsored Capstone ProgramEdward Latorre, University of Florida Dr. Edward Latorre-Navarro is the Director of the Integrated Product and Process Design (IPPD) program within the Department of Engineering Education at the University of Florida. He joined UF from his pre- vious role as Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo. As an educator, he is interested in improving the academic experience
. Industrial and Systems Engineering (Ohio State 2003) - M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering (Ohio State 2008) - 7 years experience with consulting firm (civil engineering and project development) - 10th-year Senior Lecturer with EED at The Ohio State University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 WORK-IN-PROGRESS: Incorporating Learning Strategies and Theory into a Multidisciplinary Design Capstone CourseIntroductionThis work in progress paper explains modifications made to the senior-level multidisciplinarydesign capstone course based on student learning theories and strategies. In the summer of 2022,the Multidisciplinary Design
is the co-director of the program since 2023.Audrey Boucher-Genesse, Universite de Sherbrooke Audrey Boucher-Genesse is an engineer and a professional at the Faculty of Engineering at the Universit´e de Sherbrooke. She studied in Electrical Engineering (2002-2006), worked in industrial robotics at AV&R, then worked actively at the creation of the Robotics Engineering Program until 2023. She is now involved in Major Capstone Design Projects, which involve 4 programs, including Robotics Engineering.Mr. Marc-Andr´e Cyr, Universite de Sherbrooke Marc-Andr´e Cyr, P. Eng., works as a lab coordinator and continuous improvement of the Robotics Engineering Program. ©American Society for
andresourcefulness to self-motivation and teamwork [5]. A notable aspect of the VIP model is itscommunity-centric approach, promoting collaboration among undergraduates, graduate students,and faculty. This interconnected environment nurtures mutual respect, innate curiosity, and aspirit of creativity [2]. The VIP model presents a holistic learning journey that holds immensepotential for students' academic and professional trajectories [2]. Our journey began by recognizing a gap between first-year project-based learning (PBL)engineering courses and the Interdisciplinary Capstone (IDC) for senior engineering students.We created IDPro to fill this gap, enabling students to engage in long-term, interdisciplinaryprojects involving community stakeholders
]. UREs come in many modalities, such as traditional faculty-student collaborations, project-basedinitiatives, community-based projects, capstone projects, internships, co-ops, course-based undergraduateresearch experiences, international research opportunities, and programs like Vertically IntegratedProjects (VIP). These initiatives provide students with versatile chances to participate in hands-onexperiences, acquire methodological expertise, and make meaningful contributions to advancingknowledge in their respective disciplines. [1], [4], [5]. Moreover, the scholarly literature reveals thatparticipation in UREs yields substantial benefits for students pursuing STEM careers. Research findingsshow that UREs can lead to a better understanding of
integration of an entrepreneurial mindset (EM) into engineering education has become18 increasingly prevalent, reflecting a paradigm shift in how engineering problems are approached19 and solved. This project, serving as the capstone of an Introduction to Engineering course, was20 designed to instill EM in a diverse group of engineering students, equipping them to tackle21 multidisciplinary challenges innovatively. Historically, EM has been a staple in business education22 but has only recently begun to permeate engineering curricula globally over the past few decades23 (3). The Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN), established in 2005, has been pivotal24 in promoting EM within undergraduate engineering programs across the
settings. Dr. Farzan has an interest in innovative instructional technologies, and has co-developed the first lab-based online Mechatronics course, which brings hands-on engineering education to anyone around the world who wants to learn. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Project-Based Learning for Robot Control Theory: A Robot Operating System (ROS) Based Approach Siavash Farzan sfarzan@wpi.edu Robotics Engineering Department Worcester Polytechnic InstituteAbstractControl theory is an important cornerstone of the robotics field
Paper ID #41521A Multi-institution Design Project on Sustainable Cities: The Sustainabilityand Social Entrepreneurship FellowshipMr. Christopher Rennick, University of Waterloo Mr. Christopher Rennick received his B.A.Sc., Honours Electrical Engineering in 2007 and his M.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering in 2009, both from the University of Windsor, in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Chris is the Engineering Educational Developer in the Pearl Sullivan Engineering Ideas Clinic at the University of Waterloo, where he focuses on implementing hands-on, real-world design experiences across Waterloo’s engineering programs. Chris is
demand for solar energy with theagricultural use of the land. In this report, we document the building of the AGRO-PV Domeprototype that would demonstrate the efficacy of the concept and the promise for scaling it intolarge-scale standard photovoltaics structures that meet the demand for flexibility, modularity,scalability, minimum land occupation, mechanical performance, and that can be deployed in farmswithout hindering crops growth and farmer activities. This concept is an opportunity fordeveloping new PV configurations that use off-the-shelf materials to optimize solar energygeneration in agricultural settings without compromising or competing with agriculturalproduction. The AGRO-PV Dome project was a Final Senior Capstone Design
programming and control techniques, the Robotics major willalso prepare students with the knowledge in mechanical modeling of robots, sensing andactuation, and embedded system design. Therefore, we developed the engineering and roboticscurricula with several cross-listed courses including Mechatronics, Embedded Systems,Computer Aided Engineering Design, and Engineering Economics, in addition to the commonfreshmen-year intro to programming and intro to engineering lab as well as some common mathand physics courses. Both majors require students to complete a two-semester-long teamwork-based capstone design project. We anticipate that engineering students and robotics students willcollaborate on some capstone design projects although the capstone
. Lutsenko, N. Seminikhyna and T. Svyrydiuk, “FosteringIntercultural Communicative Competence and Student Autonomy through Project-BasedLearning,” AWEJ Special Issue on Communication and Language in Virtual Spaces, pp.130-143, January 2023, DOI: 10.24093/awej/comm1.10[7] T. Fortune, S. Borkovic, A. Bhopti, R. Somoza, H. Chan Nhan and S. Rangwala,“Transformative Learning Through International Project-Based Learning in the Global South:Applying a Students-as-Partners Lens to a “High-Impact” Capstone,” Journal of Studies inInternational Education, vol. 23, no. 1, pp.49-65, November 2018,DOI: 10.1177/1028315318814571[8] P. P. Srinivasa, N.C. Niranjan and B.R. Shrinivasa, “Project Based Learning (PBL):Issues Faced by Faculty for its Effective
Raise Your Hand. The program brought together severalundergraduate capstone design teams, multiple sub-teams connected through a VerticallyIntegrated Projects (VIP) team, undergraduate researchers, extracurricular high school students,and a graduate student. The contribution of this work is the description of the evolving projectmanagements strategies that project leaders used to organize program efforts and integrate thestudent work for a successful deployment of the exhibit in Fall 2022.In this paper, we discuss the project context, team composition, learning outcomes, projectstages, and key techniques that coordinated and structured the project. The project contextdescribes the design vision for the Raise Your Hand exhibit, which was
thecertificate, both undergraduate and graduate students are required to attend 6 standards-relatedseminars. The seminar series is described later in this paper.Other requirements for undergraduate students include: • Completing a total of 12 credits (4 lecture courses or a combination of lectures and labs) with a grade of “B” or better in each course. The certificate courses may be selected from a list of MEEN, CEEN, and AEEN courses. • Completing a senior capstone project that has a significant component focused on standards.Graduate student requirements are similar with the following differences: • Completing a total of 9 credits (3 courses) with a grade of “B” or better in each course. The certificate courses are
early2025 on the Georgia Tech campus. The team working on the project includes two faculty, aprofessional composer, art and science teachers from an elementary school, and students in ranksranging from elementary school to master’s, with the large majority being undergraduates. Thestudents involved participate in several courses and programs, including Vertically IntegratedProjects (VIP), ENGAGES (Engaging New Generations at Georgia Tech through Engineering &Science), and interdisciplinary senior capstone design. BMG follows the first exhibit by theElectronic ARTrium lab, Raise Your Hand, which was shown for two weeks in November 2022,in the Ferst Center for the Arts, and was described in a paper last year in this conference [1].Raise Your Hand
infiltrates many areas of engineering andscience. Yet within engineering programs, students often have few opportunities to developexpertise in data science or even to explore how data science is relevant to their degreespecializations. This paper reports on an NSF-funded study of a program that prepares STEMstudents to engage with data science in coursework and then mentors them as they secureinternships and complete a capstone that demonstrates their application of data science expertise.Drawing on a mixed-methods study, including student reflections, capstone project assessment,and survey reporting, this paper suggests not only that students make deep connections betweentheir existing majors and data science but also that students trained in our
25 engineering students. While the upward trend in enrollment is promising, laboratories and facilities essential for hands-on learning must be expanded and improved, and thus, a "living" engineering laboratory was proposed. This project aims to integrate experiential learning into core engineering courses, aligning with ABET standards. The envisioned outcome is two-fold: first, to enhance the educational experience for students by providing them with practical and real-world learning opportunities within their core courses; second, this initiative aims to align Juniata’s engineering program with criteria set by ABET. This paper will provide an overview of the living engineering laboratory and details of some recent
Applications, Business Operations, and Theatre Arts, among others.Students will take courses in this area of interest and apply an engineering mindset to develop ahybrid set of skills and experiences, followed by a semester-long senior thesis project. The BS inEngineering is designed to be ABET accreditable and will provide students with a strongtechnical engineering background through upper-level courses taken the junior and senior yearand a yearlong capstone engineering project.All students also complete the broad college core distribution requirements, maintaining theliberal arts standards of the college. Both programs will be completed within the 130-credit capfor the college. These programs specifically draw on the strengths of the college to
State University. He teaches laboratory courses, senior capstone, and manages the Materials Teaching Lab where MSE lab courses work, in addition to supporting student projects and researchers from multiple disciplines. All of his courses emphasize professional development using integrated instruction and practice in technical communication and professional skills provided by collaborators from relevant disciplines, and informed by his many years in industry. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Alumni Perceptions of Writing TransferIntroductionIn various ways, undergraduate engineering programs incorporate professional skill developmentinto their curriculum or
following survey items were used to construct measures for theseanalyses.3.2.1 Development of Professional Skills and Content MasteryGains in three types of professional skills were assessed using survey items. A compositemeasure for each of three types of skills was constructed using items that began with the prompt,“Indicate the extent to which your project experiences (through GPS, HUA capstone (inquiryseminar/practicum or sufficiency), your IQP, and/or your MQP) enhanced your ability to…”Response options were on a five-point Likert scale from not at all (1) to very much (5).Teamwork skills used responses to five items: interact effectively as a professional, effectivelymanage interpersonal dynamics, effectively function on a team, effectively
degree. Increasingly, all constituent groups cite advantages inbeginning experiential learning early – in the first or second year of college. The Interdisciplinary Projects course IDPro had 80 students enrolled in 2024, which wasoffered at both the 2000 and 4000 levels for 1-3 credit hours. IDPro was designed to providestudents with team-based, interdisciplinary, vertically integrated, project-based learningexperience before their degree-specific capstone. Examples of IDPro projects include researchprojects, industry sponsored projects, and topic-based projects selected by undergraduatestudents. IDPro functions as a 15-week course with projects expanding across semesters forstudents to continue developing over time as they hone their
coursework supplemented by the requirementsin foundational mathematics to meet a wide range of learning outcomes. Sample course outlines fromthe Robotics Core are shown in the Appendix section. Figure 1. Core topics covered in the Robotics Engineering MajorAll students in this program are required to enroll in the Robotics Core courses and a common set offoundational courses during Year 1 and Year 2 followed by a sequence of courses affiliated to theirchoice of specialization in Years 3 and 4 as listed in Table 1. Furthermore, Years 3 and 4 includemultiple options for elective courses that allow for deeper exploration of topics. The program offersinterdisciplinary projects as part Capstone I and II courses that would include
, Advanced Engineering Math, is taughtby the engineering department. There is no requirement to take a course on Calculus 3,Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, or Statistics; instead, topics from these courses areembedded as learning objectives within engineering courses. There is a continuity of project-centered courses through the student experience. The fourcourses that I have labeled as project courses include one 2-credit course in the second year, one3-credit class in the junior year, and a two-semester, 6-credit capstone sequence in the senioryear. While these four courses are centered almost entirely on work on a single project, many ofthe other courses taught by the department include significant project work. The reflection
Paper ID #41385Work-In-Progress: Holistic, Multi-disciplinary Systems Approach to TeachingSustainable and Contextual Engineering Concepts for Undergraduate StudentsDr. Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University Dr. Courtney Pfluger is an Associate Teaching Professor at Northeastern University. In 2011, began as an Assistant Teaching Professor in First-year Engineering Program where she redesigned the curriculum and developed courses with sustainability and clean water themes. In 2017, she moved to ChE Department where she has taught core courses and redesigned the Capstone design course with inclusion pedagogy practices
mechanical engineering at four different colleges. He started at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez in the traditional role of teaching and administering a modest graduate research program. At Trine University, a small private school in Angola, Indiana, he focused on undergraduate education while teaching ten different courses ranging from introductory freshman courses to senior capstone. Scott also served as an advisor to many different undergraduate research projects. He then moved on to Michigan State University and took a position as a teaching specialist concentrating on undergraduate classroom instruction. Scott finally settled at York College of Pennsylvania. He has been at York College for over ten years
from a study investigating thetransition from capstone design to industry,” In 2018 Capstone Design Conference Proceedings,June 2018.[13] B. Amadei, “Engineering for sustainable human development: A guide to successful small-scale community projects,” American Society of Civil Engineers, August 2014.[14] B. Altringer and F. Habbal, “Embedding design thinking in a multidisciplinary engineeringcurriculum,” in VentureWell: Proceedings of Open, the Annual Conference. National CollegiateInventors & Innovators Alliance, 2015, p. 1.[15] R.M. Felder and R. Brent, “Designing and teaching courses to satisfy the ABET engineeringcriteria,” Journal of Engineering Education, 92(1), 2003, pp. 7-25.[16] G. Lichtenstein, A.C. McCormick, S.D. Sheppard and J
abroader network, sometimes even mentoring new workshop attendees. A MechanicalEngineering Senior said: “I was hooked after the first two workshops- basics of 3D printing andlaser cutting. By the third workshop, I felt like could help someone else, and applied to be aninstructor. I’ve combined these techniques in a [final year capstone] project that has studentsfrom three majors.”These findings suggest that makerspaces serve as natural "collaboration incubators," fosteringboth technical and relational networks that extend beyond immediate workshop contexts. Evenbrief, peer-led training can instill enough confidence for students to try out unfamiliar tools orpartner with peers from different majors. This synergy of skill transfer and
academic advisor to list specialization-specific coursework intheir plan of study that closely aligns with their career goals.In addition to courses in the School of Engineering and associated programs, the MDE majoroffers a two-semester capstone project in all four areas. The capstone course encourages studentsto work on a single topic of investigation. The MDE program culminates in a presentation ofteam-based projects in the senior year. Those projects typically have industry sponsors.Program DevelopmentHistorically, students entered our School of Engineering through a direct-admit model, declaringtheir major at the time of matriculation. The school had a path for those students who did notdeclare a major, called Undecided Engineering. This