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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
education. This paper presents an undergraduate elective course for biomedicalinnovation. In this course, junior or senior Industrial Engineering (IE) students withoutbiomedicine backgrounds will be asked to team with medical students to develop innovativesolutions for clinical problems. Unlike conventional senior design or a capstone project, this courserequires students to identify a problem in an authentic clinical setting and translate the clinicalproblem into an engineering project. Fifty percent of the credit for the final project will be basedon the analysis of the problem and fifty percent of the credit will be based on the proposed solutionin terms of novelty and technical rationale. This elective course is expected to encourage studentsto
, show significant growth of cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural, and cross-boundary work needs. Some cross-disciplinary areas withparticular demand, now and for the future, are found at the intersection between engineering andthe life sciences. Engineers increasingly need competencies in life science areas that intersectwith their engineering disciplines. Engineers also must meet high-tech industry requirements ofworking cross-culturally, communicating effectively with all teams across the enterprise, andeffectively using time and project management skills. For STEM-specific roles, young engineersare required to have data science understanding, statistics knowledge, and computationalcapability especially if working with big data. In response
, from first-year students in engineering projects courses tothird-, fourth-, and fifth-year students enrolled in the program’s core engineering courses (statics,circuits, materials) or senior capstone design. Classes range from engineering projects courses tocore engineering courses (statics, circuits, materials) to senior capstone design.SettingLaunched in 2014, the University of Colorado Boulder’s ABET-accredited Integrated DesignEngineering program allows undergraduate engineering students to select from among one of sixengineering areas of study (aerospace, architectural, civil, electrical, environmental, mechanical;called an emphasis) and combine that with an additional area of study outside of engineering(called a concentration). In the
, since they will learn to look at the problem from differentangles before choosing a suitable path forward.2. Encourage internships.Internships are a great way to prepare students for careers on multi-disciplinary teams. Onebenefit is to allow students to learn if they like and think they can thrive in that environment. Thesecond is to already start acquiring the necessary skills to succeed in these positions early on.Internships which have a component around rotation across teams, also allow students to gainwider appreciation of how different positions interact, before having to dive deep into one role.On completion of junior-year internships, students can then bring back acquired skills to theirfinal year classes, capstone projects, and
Engineering Sciences and Materials at the ˜ University of Puerto Rico, MayagA¼ez Campus (UPRM). He earned B.S. degrees in Civil Engineering and Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University (1993) andDr. Nayda G. Santiago, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Nayda G. Santiago is professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM) where she teaches the Capstone Course in Computer Engineer- ing. She received an BS in EE from the University of PR, MayaDr. Lourdes A. MedinaDr. Ivan J. Baiges-Valentin, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023
school. Her research is focused on solving problems relating to educating and developing engi- neers, teachers, and the community at all levels (P12, undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate). A few of these key areas include engineering identity and mindsets, global competencies, failure culture, first year experiences in engineering, capstone design thinking, integrating service and authentic learning into the engineering classroom, implementing new instructional methodologies, and design optimization using traditional and non-traditional manufacturing. She seeks to identify best practices and develop assess- ments methods that assist in optimizing computing and engineering learning. Dr. Gurganus was one the inaugural
choices on thecontext, timing, frequency, format, workload assignment, and grading for students.Context: We implemented the tool in Introductory microeconomics, Introductorymacroeconomics, Introductory engineering design (biotechnology and human values), andBiomedical engineering design (senior/capstone experience). The courses all include a projectwith oral presentations and other deliverables such as a written paper or an audio-videorecording. Each economics class enrolled 60 undergraduate students and the engineering classeshad 63 and 49 students, respectively. Students in these classes work on their projects in teams of4-6 students each. The projects are scaffolded in ways that allow the students to present theirwork orally, receive feedback
Intro Activity 1 M&R Intro Activity 5 :45 Hardware Discussion 12:00 Hands-on: Intro Activity 1 Hands-on: Intro Activity 5 :15 :30 Software Discussion :45 Summary & Reflection Summary & Reflection 1:00 M&R Intro Activity 2 Curriculum Discussion 2 Breakout Groups 1 :15 :30 Hands-on: Intro Activity 2 BG1 Report-Out Capstone Project Discussion :45
provided with WATTStraining) as well as in the “experimental” year of the study (tutors provided with the WATTS training).Background:The students in the study were senior-year students enrolled in the capstone design sequence of an METprogram. The course sequence meets once a week during the fall and spring semesters and is taught bythe same instructor both semesters. Students are assigned to work on industry-sponsored design projectsin teams of three or four. Each team’s project work is facilitated by a faculty advisor drawn from the METdepartment faculty. During the course of the semester, the students are tasked with applying the designskills learned in other MET courses to their design project. Each student must select a component oraspect of
the program names contribute to some of these challenges,leading to questions about whether rebranding to a different name might be beneficial. Otherstudies have explored renaming motivations and results in geography [13], agronomy [14],writing programs [15], vocational education [16], and institutions [17], [18]. There is a generalconsensus that names are powerful, and changes often reveal tensions with the health and/oridentity of programs. Frazier et al. [13, p. 13] notes: “Do name changes reflect an expandedmission… or other goals such as addressing low enrollment, shifting student interests, or thedesire to project a fresh identity or realign with a new academic emphasis?” There may also beconcern about name recognition or conveying the