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Ronald K. Goodnight; Gary B. Randolph; Dennis O. Owen

Session 1675 The Pedagogical and Andragogical Validity of Capstone Projects Dennis Owen, Ron Goodnight, Gary Randolph Purdue UniversityAbstractNon-traditional students have been the mainstay of regional and satellite university campuses formany years. Purdue University’s Anderson, Indiana site is no exception. In an effort tomaximize the educational experience of these adult learners, the faculty has experimented withseveral different instructional methodologies. Some of these experiments have proven successfulwhile others have not. In order to better develop these instructional methods, the authors

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James N. Peterson

Session 2625 Experiences in Capstone Design Projects: Partnerships with Industrial Sponsors James N. Peterson Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Idaho Moscow, ID 83844AbstractCapstone design projects in the department provide student teams opportunities to createengineering solutions to problems identified and sponsored by industrial partners. A partnershiprelationship model for achieving engineering education goals, which is initiated between thedepartment and

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Darrell D. Massie; Cheryl A. Massie

Session 2559 Framework for Organization and Control of Capstone Design/Build Projects Darrell D. Massie, Cheryl A. Massie United States Military Academy/Flack + Kurtz Consulting EngineersAbstractSenior design capstone projects frequently require team members to self-organize for a projectand then execute the design/build portion within a resource-constrained environment. This isusually challenging for inexperienced students who are struggling with technical as well asprogram management and team building issues. This paper outlines a general framework thatcan be used by

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Edward F. Young; Jeffrey Morehouse; Jed Lyons

design. Recent research areas include high temperature crack growth insuperalloys and viscoelastic behavior of thermoplastics. Educational projects include developing mechanicalengineering laboratories and leading the NSF Gateway Coalition's Materials Program Area team.JEFFREY MOREHOUSE is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at USC. His long-term researchinterests involve energy-related systems, including solar, automotive, HVAC and general power producing devices.Teaching is focused on the thermal sciences and their applications, plus the capstone design course. He is thefaculty advisor to the student chapters of SAE, Pi Tau Sigma, ASHRAE, and the collegiate auto racing team.EDWARD YOUNG is a Visiting Professor of Mechanical

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Martin Pike

Session 2625 Capstone Design Courses: A Comparison of Course Formats Dr. Martin Pike Purdue UniversityAbstract A capstone design project course is a common component of Engineering andEngineering Technology curriculums. There are many possible formats for offering such acourse, each with its advantages and disadvantages. The author has taught the capstone designcourse at three different universities, each with a different format (single term with a singleproject, multi-term with a single project and a single term multi-project). This paper will discussthe author’s

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Jeffrey L. Ray

Session 2625 The Unrecognized Side of Senior Capstone Design Jeffrey L. Ray Padnos School of Engineering Grand Valley State University Grand Rapids, MichiganAbstractAn innovative approach to the interdisciplinary, senior capstone design course at Grand ValleyState University is outlined. During the first semester students select a project and are assignedto a project team. The teams then prepare design proposals for review by the sponsor companies.The second semester encompasses student teams

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Behnam Kamali

Session 3432 A Novel Structure for Electrical Engineering Senior Capstone Laboratory Behnam Kamali Mercer University School of EngineeringAbstractThe electrical engineering senior capstone laboratory course is meant “to provide the electricalengineering senior student with additional and varied experiences in creating and designingworking electrical/ electronic/ electromechanical systems, from specifications to prototypeproduct”. At Mercer University we have structured this course such that in addition to designstipulations, it addresses a number of other EC 2000 requirements, specially, those

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thegroups worked extra hours to complete the project on time.Project 1 was a site plan for the Schenectady YWCA (See Figures 1 & 2). The YWCA isplanning to build a playground in the back of its property and needed a site plan for theengineers. The students were required to survey an area of approximately one acre. The surveyincluded topography and property lines. The site consists of two terraces separated by a 12 footslope. There is a small stone foundation, a 30 foot long retaining wall, basketball court and Page 5.373.3many trees on the site as well. The design work will become a Senior Capstone Design Projectfor several students.Project 2 was

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William C. Oakes; Ronald Wukasch; Richard Foretek; Jennifer Watia; Jeffery L. Gray; Leah H Jamieson; Edward Coyle

been well-documented [1,2]. These experiences should emphasizethe application of the technical skills in the classroom as well as the "softer" skills such ascommunication, working as a team and customer interaction [3-5]. The need for suchexperiences has spawned many innovative approaches to senior capstone design courses [6,7] as Page 5.280.1well as design courses for underclassmen [8-11]. The most common model for these courses hasbeen a one semester experience intended to give the students an intense exposure to the designprocess.The model that guided the creation of the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS)curriculum was to

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Sidney J. Brandon; Michael R. Sexton; Justin W. Douglas

Session 3433 GAS TURBINE ENGINE: A SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT Sidney J. Brandon, Justin W. Douglas, Michael R. Sexton Mechanical Engineering Department Virginia Military InstituteAbstractThis paper describes a senior design project conducted by two senior mechanical engineeringstudents at the Virginia Military Institute. Completion of a capstone design project is arequirement for VMI’s bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. The objective, of thisproject was to design and build a radial flow gas turbine engine, that will be incorporated as partof an undergraduate energy

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Andrew J. Strubhar; Dennis Kroll

. These have been updated in 1999, but teamwork, communication skills and projectmanagement remain in the list and near the top.During the same time period as reports of these gaps were being developed, the Bradley IEdepartment (now IMET) was developing a course to bring students into the team problemsolving paradigm well prior to the senior capstone project. Plant layout and quality controlcourses came too late in the curriculum (6th or 7th semester) to allow for a series of engagements.A fourth semester course had recently been redesigned to combine work methods and study withmanagerial engineering. The faculty decided to develop this course into an experiential coursewith significant laboratories and projects, all fostering the team approach

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Brian S Macherone; Jagdish T. Gajjar; Cherrice Traver

and Exposition, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 15-18, 1997[5] George H. Williams, James M. Kenney, "Integratng Engineering Design Projects and Economic Case Studies ina First-Year Course," Proceedings of the 1999 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Charlotte, North Carolina,June 20-23, 1999[6] Frank Milillo, Richard Shanebrook, Frank Wicks, "Construction of a Newcomen Engine as a FreshmanEngineering Project," Presented in Session 3233 of the 1999 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Charlotte,North Carolina, June 20-23, 1999[7] F. Andrew Wolfe, Christine C. Laplante, "Bridge to the Future: the Freshmen Capstone Design Bridge Project atUnion College," Proceedings of the 1999 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Charlotte, North Carolina

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Aaron C. Cain; Ganesh V. Kudav

Session 1566 Capstone Design Experience in a Thermal-Fluid Applications Course, and Development of an in-house Refrigeration Recovery System. Ganesh Kudav, Aaron Cain Youngstown State University, Youngstown - OhioAbstract The Mechanical Engineering curriculum at Youngstown State University (YSU)integrates design and computer aspects throughout the freshmen, junior, sophomore, andsenior years. However, some senior year courses have much more intensive capstone designrequirements. Thermal-Fluids Applications, ME – 726, is a late junior/early senior level

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Jeffrey L. Newcomer

assumed byfaculty or intended in the ET Department goals. The exact reasons for these shortcomings aresecondary to the issue of making changes to address the issue, although it in part stems from theuse of individual rather than team capstone design projects. This approach to capstone design isused throughout the ET Department as a last chance to guarantee that every student is capable ofcompleting a large, open-ended project. From the standpoint of certain skills, such as writtencommunication, creative problem solving ability, and project management this approach is veryeffective, however it addresses these other issues at the expense of teamwork. One solution de-veloped to address these shortcomings was to modify some of our technical electives

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sufficient experience doing simple tasks with the switch and lamp simulationpanel. Since we have only one of each simulator and 4 - 6 student groups in the lab, the studentstake turns with the temperature chamber, the mixing tank, and the elevator.. Since the studentstypically finish the introductory material at different rates, there is rarely a conflict over who isto use a process simulator at any given time. After the intermediate level process simulators,there follows several weeks of more advanced work with the switch and panel simulator beforethe four story elevator simulator is programmed as a final laboratory exercise.The capstone design experience (called the senior project at LTU) is a two course sequence, eachcourse receiving two semester

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William Jack Altenhof; Peter R. Frise

, the impact resistance of the specified dimensions.component, the aesthetics of the component, and an additional “subjective evaluation”term. Mass (Actual Dimension& Design Constraint) GOC ' % %E.O.A. %Impact %Aesthetics % S.E. grams mm(Equation 1)Evaluation of the last four terms in Equation 1 (ease of assembly, impact performance, aesthetics,and subjective evaluation) were based upon a maximum of ten (10) possible marks.V. Data GatheringOne of the key factors often neglected in capstone design projects assigned to students is the factthat most designs must integrate with an existing system

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Jody A. Knoll; Jan T. Lugowski; Nancy L. Denton

. “Logistics Goes “Live”: Supply Chain Management in Industrial Distribution.” Journal of Engineering Technology 16, no. 1, (1999): 44-47.8. Mahendran, M. “Project-Based Civil Engineering Courses.” Journal of Engineering Education (84), no. 1, (1995): 75-79.9. Humphreys, M.A. “Client-Sponsored Projects in a Marketing Research Course.” Journal of Marketing Education 3 (1981): 7-12.10. Dutson, A.J., R. H. Todd, S. P. Magleby, and C. D. Sorensen. “A Review of Literature on Teaching Engineering Design Through Project-Oriented Capstone Courses.” Journal of Engineering Education (86), no. Page 5.285.8 1, (1997): 17-28.NANCY

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Albert Lozano-Nieto

the contents and the delivery method in the capstone design courses in our program.This design content in this program is structured along two courses, the Project Proposal course(EET 419) and the Design Project (EET 420) that the students take sequentially in twosemesters. This paper focuses on the approaches introduced in the Project Proposal course (EET419) to increase the level of cooperative learning among the students. The outcome of thiscourse is a technical document that analyzes and describes a project that the students will build inthe next course.The tool that has been chosen to incorporate cooperative learning in this course is an Intranettool, based on First Class™ that is an asynchronous conferencing software. This software

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Michael J Batchelder; Iyer L. Srinivasa; Daniel F. Dolan

education, students participate in enterprise teams centered on industry-sponsoredprojects or competition projects. Teams consist of students at all levels, from freshmen throughgraduate students, together with faculty and industry partners and are open to students from alldisciplines. As CAMP students gain experience, they qualify to be team leaders. Project work iscoordinated with designated CAMP courses.All work on the projects is done in student teams. The student leaders are CAMP members, andteam members join to gain engineering experience on real projects. They can receive credit fortheir project work in capstone design courses or design courses as part of the normal curriculum.Freshman courses through graduate courses have incorporated

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Charles U. Okonkwo; Jerry Gintz

review, (viii)mechanical integrity, (ix) hot work permit, (x) management of change, (xi) incidentinvestigation, (xii) emergency planning, (xiii) compliance audits, and (xiv) trade secretprotection. Though these tools had their origin in the chemical industry, they are still useful inmanufacturing industries that are non-chemical in nature. Some tools by their nature may onlyapply to the chemical industry. Capstone courses offer a venue for a detailed discussion ofcertain tools that are very pertinent to a particular capstone project, while still providing acursory treatment of the rest of the tools.Each discipline will adapt the tools to its capstone courses. Incorporation of PSM into amanufacturing curriculum may be better illustrated by using

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John S. Klegka; Robert Rabb

Session 2625 Engineering Design Opportunities at the United States Military Academy Major Robert J. Rabb and Colonel John S. Klegka United States Military AcademyAbstractThe United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point has developed a program topromote academic activities beyond the basic requirements. With a three semester designsequence, this program can enhance student learning and experience with the design process andgive students a head start on their capstone project. Although the academy’s mission is toprepare cadets for future military service and

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remediation. The second, Ocean ResourcesEngineering, emphasizes methods for ocean resource assessment, recovery and utilization. Otherenvironmental engineering opportunities include the capstone design course required of allengineering majors, and elective courses in such disciplines as environmental economics,environmental oceanography, environmental security, and marine environmental engineering.The purpose of this paper is to address the evolution of this environmental engineering optionand to describe the content of its two fundamental courses. The paper also provides a briefdescription of recent environmental-related capstone design projects and reviews topicalcoverage of selected elective courses.IntroductionNearly 80% of the earth’s surface is

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Massoud S. Tavakoli

are currently all single-quarter courses. That is why most of our design projects end with aCAD model.Undoubtedly, the Design Studio has and will continue to give Kettering students thetechnological tools to create 3D models of their designs and also engage them in high-end designactivities. One such activity would be to reverse engineer an existing product (design) byutilizing the imaging system, redesign the part using CAD, and finally produce a rapid prototypeof the modified design. However, the Design Studio by itself will not completely compensate forour time constraints. To address this issue, two alternative curriculum changes have beenproposed.Proposal One – It is proposed that the capstone design courses be spread over two non

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P. K. Mallick

. Page 5.321.1II. Automotive Systems EngineeringThe University of Michigan-Dearborn started the Master of Science in Engineering (MSE)degree program in Automotive Systems Engineering (ASE) in 1996. It is one of the twointerdisciplinary programs that are currently offered in the College of Engineering and ComputerScience. Faculty from three engineering departments, namely mechanical engineering, electricaland computer engineering, and industrial and manufacturing engineering, participate in theseprograms by offering courses, advising students in their capstone projects or thesis andconducting interdisciplinary research. The director of the interdisciplinary programs, who isalso a faculty member in the college, is responsible for the

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Theodore F. Smith; Sharif Rahman; P. Barry Butler

in the engineering and basic sciences courses as well as in the humanities and social sciencecourses and is accomplished by having the students work on a design project. Two weaknesses existin the current teaching of capstone design courses in most engineering curricula. First, the chosendesign projects may not necessarily be real-life or may not relate to a real engineering problem in thefield. Hence, it is highly likely that these design projects, when completed, will not advance to theproduction line. Second, most design projects are required to be completed within one semester.Depending on the scope of a project, a one-semester long time frame may not be adequate when adesign project demands a complete cycle of multidisciplinary

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Devdas M. Pai; Shih-Liang Wang; Juri Filatovs; Richard Layton

, the group revised theirdesign and developed detailed shop drawings and a materials list for a finalworking prototype. The semester ended and the students were not required to buildan operational version of this final design. However, the assembly drawing of theirfinal design, shown in Figure 2 illustrates the extent of their success with themanufacturing-related issues of assembly, clearances, fasteners, and realizableshop processes. Page 5.689.3 Figure 2 Assembly drawing of a four-bar rock-retriever mechanism.Capstone Design CourseThe capstone senior class in mechanical engineering, Mechanical Systems Design,used the project as an exercise in

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Sandra Yost

makes senseto bring this multidisciplinary area into focus in UDM’s undergraduate and graduate engineeringprograms.To this end, the students in the author’s section of a first year introductory engineering coursecompleted a mini-capstone project that required them to build and program a robot to move sandfrom one location to another. This project is described in Section 3.2. General Course DescriptionBefore the 1998-99 academic year, first year engineering students at UDM took a three credithour course that exposed them to engineering graphics and engineering design. A second threecredit hour course was devoted to an introduction to engineering computing. Because of theheavy graphics component in the design course, it was taught mainly by

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parts for a Capstone Project. Activity Level BehaviorStatements were derived from the “student ability to perform.”Effectiveness of teaching and learningA study was made for one course entitled “Machine Tool and Fixtures Design” a senior level course withthe following emphasis. The following broad or general list summarizes the learning objectives of thecourse.1. Learning and Using the IDEAS software• Part Modeling• Modifying Parts• Constrains and Constraint Networks• Surface Modeling Techniques• Team work in modeling Page 5.165.62. Application using IDEAS software• Design Application• Drafting Application

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. The lectures cover areas including: patent law, financial records, venturecapital, SBIR, product liability, ethics, product development, creative thinking, invention, andstarting your own company. Perhaps the best known of all the guest speakers is Dr. PaulMacCready from Aerovironment, developer of the human powered Gossamer Albatross5. Byproviding students with a broad experience of relevant lectures, it is hoped that the students willinfer what innovation and entrepreneurship is all about.Like many capstone courses, the lectures are supplemented with a large-scale project-basedlearning activity. In the span of 90 days each E-Team must go from concept generation toworking prototype. Along the way they work within a budget, order supplies

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, and so, working with an intellectual property attorney, we teach the patentprocess as part of the class. In this paper, we discuss the organization of the project itselfand how we teach the patent process, as well as how students respond both to the projectand the possibility of graduating with the words “patent pending” on their résumés.How We BeginThe ability to work on a team is unquestionably a required skill for anyone working inindustry today. Consequently, Ward College of Technology students who take English481, Advanced Technical Communications, are required to work on a team project. Theproject is actually one of a series of possible capstone projects for undergraduateTechnology students, but since all Ward students must take EN 481