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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Amir Karimi

Session 1566 Industrially Supported Projects in a Capstone Design Sequence Amir Karimi, Jahan Eftekhar, Randall Manteufel, and Yesh Singh Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Texas at San AntonioAbstractThe design experience in the mechanical engineering BS degree program at The University ofTexas at San Antonio (UTSA) contains a senior-level capstone design course sequence, providingstudents an opportunity to apply and integrate the knowledge gained throughout the curriculumto the development of an instructor-approved project. The two-semester course

Conference Session

ET Capstone Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Douglas Acheson

Session 3447 The Basic Utility Vehicle (BUV) – A Humanitarian Capstone Project Douglas C. Acheson Computer Graphics Technology Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)AbstractEngineering and technology schools, departments and students are encouraged to explore acapstone design project option that possesses significant, far-reaching implications forinternational humanitarian application. An Indianapolis, Indiana-based non-profit organizationcalled the “Institute of Affordable Transportation (IAT)” engages young engineering andtechnology talent

Conference Session

ET Capstone Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Janak Dave; Thomas Boronkay

above needwould be beneficial. This paper describes a Senior Capstone Design project resulting in aprototype of the “Bi-Use Wheelchair” to help meet patients’ and examiners’ needs.DesignResearch of current literature and equipment showed no products satisfying the above need. The Page 8.267.1closest one, “Gerri-Chair” is a lazy boy-type reclining chair with four very small wheels. “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition” Copyright ©2003, American Society for EngineeringDiscussions with nurses in the field revealed that this type of chair is never

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ET Capstone Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Janak Dave; Thomas Boronkay

Session 3447 Remote Assistive Elevator Control Device Janak Dave, Thomas G. Boronkay, James Henize University of CincinnatiAbstractThe Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) Department at the University of Cincinnati’sCollege of Applied Science requires a “Design, Build & Test” Capstone design project forstudents working toward the baccalaureate degree. Most of these are completed by individualstudents. Local non-profit organizations that offer community service provide some of theprojects. By working with these organizations, the MET Department has identified

Conference Session

ET Capstone Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Charles Aldrich; Michael Webber; Scott Dunning

Session 3447 The Holden Elementary School Autonomous Vehicle (HESAV) By Scott C. Dunning, Ph.D., Charles Aldrich and Michael Webber University of MaineAbstract One challenge that must be met for a successful capstone design course is to select aproject that excites a student team while solving a real world problem. This paper will discussthe results of a senior design project that met both of those criteria. The project objective was todesign and build a fully autonomous vehicle for use by physically challenged children at theHolden Elementary

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ET Capstone Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Myszka

Session 3447 Capstone Projects that are Industry Sponsored, Interdisciplinary, and Include both Design and Build Tasks David Myszka University of DaytonAbstractOver the past decade, a great deal of attention has been placed on capstone designprojects in engineering technology. This has come as a result of criticisms of educationinstitutions for not meeting the needs of industry. To that end, nearly all institutions haveadopted a capstone experience. Many have instituted projects that include both design andfabrication. Some have utilized industry-sponsored projects

Conference Session

Design Projects in Manufacturing

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2003 Annual Conference

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Venkat Allada; Tony Okafor; Rajiv Mishra; Ming Leu; Ashok Agrawal; Frank Liou

Session Number: 2563 AN INTEGRATED AND DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENT FOR A MANUFACTURING CAPSTONE COURSE Frank Liou, Venkat Allada, Ming Leu, Rajiv Mishra, Anthony OKAFOR University of Missouri-Rolla and Ashok Agrawal St. Louis Community College - Florissant ValleyAbstractPresented in the paper is an interdisciplinary capstone design project course with thesupport of distributed and integrated manufacturing processes. This project courseprovides students with the experience of integrating the technical knowledge they havelearned from

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jan Lugowski

Session 3648 Design Class Projects in Fluid Power Jan T. Lugowski Purdue University1. IntroductionClass projects offer many opportunities for students to learn by doing. A design class projectcompleted recently in fluid power area at Purdue University is presented. They provideopportunities for students to solve problems and boost their competency level. The projectpresented in this paper involved design and manufacture of a hydraulic pump by applying a rapidprototyping technology. Examples of solved problems are presented. The project offered

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Harris

game.Most HMC students are simultaneously enrolled in Engineering Clinic, a capstone designexperience that consumes a great deal of time, especially in the final weeks of the semester.VLSI design projects are also notorious for consuming time. Therefore the VLSI project washeavily front-loaded to complete three weeks before the end of the semester. To keep theprojects on schedule, students made written or oral reports at each of the following milestones. 2/25: Preliminary Proposal 3/4: Project Proposal 3/13: Floorplan Complete 3/18-22: HMC Spring Break 3/27: Schematic Review 4/8: Unit Layout Review

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

Session 1566 The Need of Capstone Senior Design Projects for Outside Support Hosni I. Abu-Mulaweh Department of Engineering Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne Fort Wayne, IN 46805, USAAbstractThe students in the mechanical engineering program at Indiana University-Purdue UniversityFort Wayne are required to complete a capstone senior design project. Whenever it is possible,the students are exposed to real life design problem experience. However, most of the time, thisis not achievable because of the cost of

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Ebel; Roobik Gharabagi

The Senior Design Project: From Concept to Reality Roobik Gharabagi, William J. Ebel Department of Electrical Engineering Saint Louis University 3450 Lindell Blvd St. Louis, MO 63103 gharabr@slu.edu, ebelwj@slu.eduAbstractThe senior design experience at the Department of Electrical Engineering of St. LouisUniversity is a two semester course sequence with sixteen weeks per semester. The totalof thirty two weeks for the senior design courses is divided into three major sections oftwelve-twelve-eight weeks. The end result of each major

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Speakman; Joel Perlin; Daniel Pack; Barry Mullins

Session 2793 Senior Capstone Design Experience: Hovering Robot Joel P. Perlin, Daniel J. Pack, Barry E. Mullins, and Richard E. Speakman Department of Electrical Engineering United States Air Force Academy, COAbstractThe paper describes the collective experience of a student and three mentors in creating ahovering robot in a year-long senior design project course. We present the tasks involved inidentifying requirements, generating specifications, designing the overall system, implementing thedesign, and testing and integrating subsystems. We consider the system

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kevin Renken; John Reisel

Session 2003-2307 TWO SENIOR CAPSTONE DESIGN PROJECTS ON THE POTENTIAL ENERGY SAVINGS AT THE PETTIT NATIONAL ICE CENTER John R. Reisel, Kevin J. Renken, and B. Andrew Price University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeAbstractThis paper presents the results of two real-world mechanical engineering senior capstone designprojects at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. These projects focused on methods forobtaining potential energy savings at the Pettit National Ice Center (PNIC) in Milwaukee,Wisconsin. The authors were originally requested by the State of Wisconsin's Division of Energy toperform a feasibility

Conference Session

Design Through the Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Chris Kobus

Session 2366 A Unique Leak Detection Precursor Capstone Design Project for a Hands-On Senior-Level Design Experience Christopher J. Kobus Department of Mechanical Engineering Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309AbstractThis paper describes a design project for the senior level Fluid and Thermal System Designcourse, which is a precursor to the Capstone Design Project at Oakland University. The Fluidand Thermal System Design course is geared to taking students through the entire taxonomy ofthe design process; from knowledge

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2003 Annual Conference

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Francis Di Bella

Session 1447 Mechanical Engineering Technology Division: “Integrating Culture as well as Engineering Instruction in Capstone Project and Machine Design Courses” Francis A. Di Bella, PE (617 373 5240; fdibella@coe.neu.edu) Assistant Professor, School of Engineering Technology Northeastern University; Boston, MAC.P. Snow’s famous 1959 Rede Lecture on the clash of the “Two Cultures”: Art andScience continues to reverberate in the halls of science and engineering education. Snow’slecture brought to the surface what seemed apparent to most

Conference Session

Design in the CHE Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Turton; Joseph Shaeiwitz

Session 1413 Life-long Learning Experiences and Simulating Multi-disciplinary Teamwork Experiences through Unusual Capstone Design Projects Joseph A. Shaeiwitz Richard Turton West Virginia UniversityIntroductionThere is significant consternation among engineering educators regarding the teaching of and theassessment of “an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams,” and “a recognition of the needfor, and an ability to engage in life-long learning.” 1 Questions commonly heard are: “Are werequired to have a multi

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mohamed El-sharkawy; Charles Yokomoto; Maher Rizkalla

A Process for Screening Capstone Senior Design Projects for Compatibility with Department ABET Program Outcomes Maher E. Rizkalla, Mohamed El-Sharkawy, and Paul Salama Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis 1. Introduction:The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) uses its senior capstonedesign course as a major source of data for its outcomes assessment process for ABETaccreditation. Thus, we must insure that the projects we assign address our ProgramOutcomes (PO), which are our version of Criterion 3 in EC2000, to the extent possible.In this paper, this paper presents a description to the process that we have developed toscreen projects before they are assigned to

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

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2003 Annual Conference

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Nathan Adams

Session 3232 Industry – University Collaboration on Under-Graduate Engineering Design Projects An Industrial Mentor’s Perspective Nathan G Adams The Boeing CompanyIntroductionFor the past four years the Boeing Company at Mesa Arizona has sponsored several under-graduate engineering design projects including a global engineering design program with ArizonaState University in Tempe, Arizona and Leeds University in the UK. A Global EngineeringDesign Team, i.e., GEDT, co-sponsored by Rolls-Royce, created project

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Brian Thompson; Craig Gunn; Craig Somerton

Session 2425 The Role of the Faculty Advisor in the Capstone Design Experience: The Importance of Technical Expertise Craig W. Somerton, Brian S. Thompson, and Craig Gunn Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State UniversityIntroductionThe capstone design experience in the mechanical engineering program at Michigan StateUniversity is achieved through the Mechanical Engineering Design Projects course: ME 481.This course utilizes industrially sponsored design projects for which the company makes both afinancial investment ($3500) and a personnel investment (a staff engineer is

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Grimm

Session 2425 A Just-In-Time Approach to Teaching Senior Design By: Thomas R. Grimm Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractThe subject of this paper is the approach used to teach the senior design project course inthe Mechanical Engineering Department at Michigan Technological University. Theprimary objective in the development of the required two semester senior designsequence was to insure a positive experience in mechanical engineering design whileeliminating the procrastination that can be prevalent in long term

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jeff Will; Doug Tougaw

courses should becombined together and the teams integrated across disciplines.During the summer of 2000, a committee composed of faculty from each department metfor two weeks to discuss the desired features, format, and policies of the new coursesequence. Since the ECE department previously had a three-semester capstone designsequence and the ME department had a two-semester sequence, some substantialcompromises had to be made. At the same time, the decision was made to increase thelevel of structure in the course and to provide a high level of support for the studentteams. This support took the form of dedicated laboratory space, increased availability offaculty resources for advising and consulting with teams, and increased project

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Craig Quadrato; Ronald Welch

different grading process than thosethat have an easily defined solution. This paper explains how, through the use of a blendedcriteria and norm based assessment and evaluation process, to clearly communicate standardsand outcomes, fairly grade dissimilar designs, and effectively encourage continuousimprovement of design products. Evidence of these outcomes will be assessed through thestatistical analysis of student feedback from the United States Military Academy.Introduction United States Military Academy (USMA) civil engineering majors are required tocomplete a one-semester capstone design project as a requirement for graduation. The capstonedesign provides the best integrated experience to assess student performance on the USMA

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven Beyerlein; Phillip Thompson; Denny Davis; Larry McKenzie; Kenneth Gentili

include: (1) motivation, (2) technical competence, (3) judgment and decision making,(4) innovation, (5) client/quality focus, (6) business orientation, (7) product development, (8)professional/ethical, (9) teamwork, (10) change management, and (11) communication. Theseattributes span ABET engineering criteria 3 and 4 requirements.A set of broadly-applicable capstone course learning outcomes is presented to address needs fordeveloping the attributes of top quality engineers and to match capstone course objectives withinengineering curricula.Introduction and ObjectivesIntroduction and RationaleCapstone design courses occupy strategic positions in engineering baccalaureate degreeprograms. They provide senior engineering students open-ended project

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Harold Evensen; Paula Zenner

Department, regardless of that Team’s makeup. The major difficulty lies in the ways each Department’s curriculum is organized to meet its perceived ABET Objectives. In some curricula, the students are exposed to a prerequisite course in Engineering Practice prior to the Design course; others imbed these Objectives into the required design milestones. Resolving this may require unification of the structure of the Capstone design experience across a college’s engineering Page 8.398.9 departments. A greater difficulty lies in the expectations of the design project itself:Proceedings of the 2003 American

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Gesink; S. Hossein Mousavinezhad

individual student in the project. The structure of the ECE Capstone Design Experience presented here has evolved over thelast 12 to 14 years through a process of assessment, reflection and continuous improvement.During this period we have constantly sought input from and listened to our critics (primarily ourstudents) as well as the occasional admirer. Whenever problems have arisen, we've evaluatedthem and made changes to reduce or eliminate them in the next cycle or cycles of the courses.While the current state of the two courses is generally given good marks by our students, otherdepartments in the colleges and by our accreditors, we continue to remain vigilant for newproblems and to the principle of effecting continuous course

Conference Session

Manufacturing Systems Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Linards Stradins; Richard Rothaupt

; in fact it is an old idea.The capstone experience in the Manufacturing Engineering program at UW-Stout is a two-semester course sequence. In the first course students experience the engineering design processby designing realistic products for manufacture. Design projects are managed by teams ofstudents, industry contacts and faculty advisors. The final detailed design is used in the secondcourse, where an automated manufacturing system is developed to produce the product.IntroductionUniversity of Wisconsin-Stout was founded on the educational principle that people learn best bydoing. In 1891 James H. Stout, a wealthy lumber baron, established the Stout Manual TrainingSchool to provide training and education “through which young people of

Conference Session

Design Through the Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Anna Philips; John Hochstein; William Janna

recommended that the program be continued in the future.Background“Design of Fluid Thermal Systems” is a senior-level, capstone design course at the University ofMemphis. Students in this course are divided into groups of 3, 4 or 5 members who work togetheras a team on a design project. Selected projects are presented to the design teams who must bidcompetitively on three of the projects. The design team with the lowest bid is awarded thatparticular project to work on for the entire semester. (See the text listed in the Bibliography forinformation on the bidding process.) Design teams are treated like companies and as such, eachgroup chooses a company name and designs a company logo. Titles of projects for the Fall 2002semester are provided in

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Philips; John Hochstein; William Janna

recommended that the program be continued in the future.Background“Design of Fluid Thermal Systems” is a senior-level, capstone design course at the University ofMemphis. Students in this course are divided into groups of 3, 4 or 5 members who work togetheras a team on a design project. Selected projects are presented to the design teams who must bidcompetitively on three of the projects. The design team with the lowest bid is awarded thatparticular project to work on for the entire semester. (See the text listed in the Bibliography forinformation on the bidding process.) Design teams are treated like companies and as such, eachgroup chooses a company name and designs a company logo. Titles of projects for the Fall 2002semester are provided in

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Williamson; Randy Winzer

students have gained duringtheir tenure at PSU. In 1996 the two professors in charge of the class decided to use the NASAsponsored human powered moon buggy competition (http://moonbuggy.msfc.nasa.gov/) as acommon project for the students to accomplish the goals and objectives of this class. In 2002some of the students from the Electronics Engineering Technology Program’s “Capstone” coursedecided to design and build a system to gather telemetry from a student built moon buggy.IntroductionPittsburg State University in 2003 will celebrate 100 years of providing learning opportunities tostudents. Pittsburg is located in the southeastern corner of Kansas and is centrally positioned nearlarger cities such as Wichita, KS, Kansas City, MO and Tulsa, OK

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmet Bugra Koku; Ali Sekmen; Ismail Fidan

Engineering Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN AbstractSenior and Capstone Design Project courses are widely adapted in engineering and computerscience curricula to prepare students for the industry and give them the opportunity to work inreal-world projects. One of the motivations behind offering such courses is to satisfy the ABETcriteria emphasizing the importance of functioning in multi-disciplinary teams. Senior projectcourses in computer science/engineering are usually designed to be one or two semester-long andthey traditionally involve large-scale software systems development. There is also a tendency toassign