% 72.4% 71.4%70% 68.9% 68.6% 68.7% 67.6% 68.1% 64.5%65%60%55%50% 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013Figure 1. A 14-year history of Freshman retention rates.School, the reputation of its programs, and the career-readiness of its students. Students alsoview them as an important factor in their job search. Industry participation in capstone SeniorDesign projects is becoming the rule rather than the exception. All is not uniformly rosyhowever; the most commonly reported reason for students in academic
comes to collaboration. The students felt thatthe American system offered benefits in learning collaborative problem-solving skills throughouttheir coursework. Virginia Tech students found that they could contribute to the conference in areas of bothprocess and leadership. Following the guidance of an advisor, Dr. Pradeep Raj, Professor ofAerospace Engineering, students incorporated lessons learned pertaining to leadership fromcreating their Senior Capstone Projects. They felt that this allowed them to embrace the themeof the conference while also producing technically sound presentations. UCI students contributedto the conference by demonstrating two specific case studies of product development withemphasis on engineering design
-driven component or do not require discipline specific information to bedistributed are organized by sections, such that all three disciplines are present in the same room.Scheduling the multiple sections to run concurrently also allows all the sections to meet togetherin a larger classroom so that outside speakers can reach out to all the students at the same time. Figure 2 also demonstrates the in-class and out of class activities that the students participated infor the revised course. Many of the activities and subsequent homework assignments weredesigned as milestones for successfully completing the semester project. In many ways, thiscourse was designed in a similar fashion as one might design a capstone design course, withmultiple
this context that weenvision the role for Chemical Engineering to be one of significant importance.Until recently, the Chemical Engineering curriculum at the Universidad de los Andes, as well as,all the programs offered in other Universities in Colombia, could be described as traditionalprograms representative of a curriculum style followed internationally and particularly in theUSA, almost invariably based on the concept of unit operations and transport phenomena with aprocess-based design capstone project, and all taught in a classical manner. Such style andcontent had remained in general unchanged since the 70s, as it is the case in many other
insolving problems. In this paper, we present curriculum design, early results andrecommendations from first year assessment of the program and plans for future programmaticelements and assessment.Students are accepted into the leadership program during sophomore year. The curriculum isdesigned to follow an intentional sequence of experiences that meet students’ developmentalreadiness and needs over the three years in the program. In each year, the student cohortsexplore one of three themes of the program (leading oneself, leading with others, or leadingtechnology and innovation) through a combination of three formal leadership courses, a varietyof experiential learning opportunities, and the completion of a capstone project. Uponcompletion of the
). Visiting Assistant Professor: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts – Low- ell, Lowell, MA, (2003-2004). Design and Advanced Materials Engineer: Advanced Mechanical Design Section, G.E. Aircraft Engines, General Electric Corp., Cincinnati, OH, (2000-2002). Project Engineer and Program Manager: Composites Technology Division, Foster-Miller, Inc., Waltham, MA, (1998-2000).John Glossner, Daniel Webster College Dr. John Glossner is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Daniel Webster College. He also serves as CEO of Optimum Semiconductor Technologies. Prior to joining OST John co-founded Sandbridge Technologies and served as EVP & CTO. Prior to Sandbridge, John managed both
experiences.Dr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co- directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on com- munication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring com- munication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication
Electrical Engineering CurriculumAbstractThis paper presents findings from an impact study of a lower division student experience withinan undergraduate electrical engineering curriculum. This experience, culminating in the secondyear of the curriculum, is integrated across multiple first and second year courses and includeselements commonly found in senior-level capstone project courses. An introductoryprogramming course utilizing an embedded platform is the first course in the sequence. Thefinal course in the sequence requires students to design, build, and test an autonomous mobilerobot. Through a series of milestones, students systematically complete both the hardware andembedded software tasks required for the project. The final milestone
laptops with more computing power and the smalllaptops that are portable and easy to carry. Due to the large amount of traveling that many collegestudents endure, many students find the less powerful, more portable option more inviting. Yet,what if they did not have to make the choice? Instead, the campus could host servers to allowstudent to lease computing power to create a more flexible computing environment while notmaking the students carry heavy computers around campus.This has been the primary motivation behind the adoption of this project by two senior students astheir senior capstone project. In this paper, we provide highlights of the challenges, successes andresults. The purpose of the project was to virtualize the Telecom, Networking
Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology.6. NTSB. (2013). Boeing 787 Battery Investigative Hearing. Washington DC. Retrieved from http://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/2013/B787_hearing/agenda.html7. Gertler, J. (2014). F-35 Joint Strike Fighter ( JSF ) Program (Tech. Rep.). Washington DC: RAND Project Air Force.8. ABET. (2013). 2014-2015 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs. Baltimore, MD. Retrieved from http://www.abet.org/9. Woods, D. R., Felder, R. M., Rugarcia, A., & Stice, J. E. (2000). The Future of Engineering Education III. Developing Critical Skills. Chem. Eng. Ed., 34(2), 108–117.10. Paretti, M. C. (2008). Teaching Communication in Capstone Design : The Role of the Instructor in Situated Learning. Journal
highly beneficial to thestudents, but it is also beneficial to the instructor and teaching assistants. The instructors need todo much less hands on work during the lab sessions, and can instead guide, suggest, and answerconceptual questions. Since it is virtually impossible to break the apparatus, short of dropping iton the floor, it is possible to let even large numbers of students touch and explore the equipment.An added unexpected benefit was the increase in the number of students who asked to borrowthe strain gauge indicator boxes for capstone design projects and student competition teams.Prior to the new experiment, very few capstone design students incorporated strain gauges intotheir design. Despite having taken the Measurements course
. Excel worksheet. The system is an electrically powered The electrically powered mode of transportation and is transportation system responds to a 35% controlled with a handheld remote handheld remote control. control. By the end of the project, a new system is expected to be fully functional and On project completion, the fully ready to operate. In the end, the functional new system gives people a 54% excellent design is meant to give people great new way to pursue happiness. a great new way to pursue
exciting project he could possibly imagine: the Space Shuttle. Over his career, David held successively influential management positions including Deputy Branch Chief of the Aerodynamics Branch in the Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Division, Chief of the GN&C Analysis and Design Branch, Deputy Chief of the Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Division, and for the final 10 years of his career, Chief of the Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Division in the Engineering Directorate at the Johnson Space Center. Dave retired from NASA at the end of 2010 after more than 38 years of service in the US Space Program. His career spanned numerous projects and programs, including both crewed and robotic spacecraft. After retiring
sensing and visual learning styles and hands-on experiments for students with ac-tive learning styles [23]. According to Moore, there is a direct correlation between in-class per-formance, laboratory attendance, and performance [24]. In capstone related project, activelearning can be achieved through a variety of activities that include lab and project experimentswith hands-on projects and hands-on laboratory experiments [25-28].ConclusionThe research was carried out to examine reliability of energy harvesting systems. Ambientenergy harvesting systems represent a fruitful area of research and possibilities for furtherresearch are created with the convergence of miniaturization of the components used, low-power
on engineering science courses,where projects requiring teamwork are limited. Upon declaring the major at the end of thesecond year, as part of their studies in the third and fourth year of their curricula, students arefrequently put in teamwork situations in an effort to prepare them for the actual work settings.Specifically, capstone design experience in their last year is meant to simulate the complexity ofthe work setting in the rigor level of the project as well as the timeline and professionalismexpected in terms of results and conduct. Frequently, students work towards a workingprototype or research result sponsored by an industrial company and in doing so they holdregular meetings with company liaisons.As seen in Figure 4 and Table 4
current practice the “IndustryFellows” model, developed and tested by faculty at the University of Washington, Tacoma [1].This model goes beyond the typical industry engagement pathways of industry advisory boards,guest speaker events, student internships, and capstone projects. Industry Fellows is a form ofindustry/academia collaboration providing direct engagement of an industry professional withinthe classroom throughout a semester. This direct engagement has the benefit of bringingacademic instruction and state-of-the-art industry practices into closer alignment [1].The goal of this paper is to extend the Industry Fellows model from application in face-to-facedelivery into online delivery for distance education. Both the original research and
Page 26.791.8 What we’re giving the students is a blank sheet of paper. They have to go out and find a problem, figure out a problem, and we’ll help them with that ideation process, but what ends up happening is that they—and I’ve heard this from students, who have done dual majors and done both the traditional Capstone Design Project and an engineering entrepreneurs program Capstone Design Project—they learn so much more and they’re so much more engaged in the project because they have personal interest and ownership of it, and that seems to make a real difference.The strategy of exposing students to compelling challenges and real-world problems isinextricably connected to experiential learning, as
project, severalstudents were very interested in the opportunity to be involved in a community outreachproject aimed towards researching and developing effective and appropriatedemonstrations of sound wave phenomena to 5th graders. The entire class was given oneresearch and writing assignment to search for helpful resources related to this Page 26.1713.6effort. When final projects were selected by the twelve enrolled in the course, two seniorfemale electrical engineering students chose to devote their entire capstone project ondeveloping outreach materials and demonstrations, and they became involved in ongoingmeetings held by the WAVES project
students with more design-decision making experience to enable them to be ready to engineer upon graduation. In thisresearch, third and fourth year undergraduate mechanical engineering students were guidedthrough the process of designing learning aid prototypes to be used in general engineeringeducation. Students were encouraged to use advanced technologies such as 3D printing and virtualsimulation to realize their concepts. This project assisted students in identifying their own andtypical misconceptions and devise tools which corrected those cognitive errors. A series of self-evaluation methods were used to identify the student’s perception of their decision-making skilllevels. Over the multiple categories of design decision-making skills
classes, and with other non-engineering communities at on-campusevents that promoted environmental sustainability and awareness of California water challenges.Impacts beyond the piloted classroom: 1) The videos produced by the engineering students have been used to teach younger engineering students and other Cal Poly Pomona non-engineering students about different water-related topics identified as a right-to-know. 2) Motivated by this pilot laboratory project, a Kellogg Honors College engineering student decided to work on a campus wide CPP water education research project that included 600 subjects. The project was completed as an Honor’s capstone project. Results are in preparation for publication.Challenges
Paper ID #11341Development of Student Competencies Overtime in an Authentic ImmersiveDesign ExperienceProf. Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma Zahed Siddique is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering of University of Oklahoma. His research interest include product family design, advanced material and engineering education. He is interested in motivation of engineering students, peer-to-peer learning, flat learning environments, technology assisted engineering education and experiential learning. He is the coordinator of the industry sponsored capstone from at his
which the students meetsocially with others to talk through their experience. Finally, the chance to work withinternational students or to serve as an ambassador for education abroad provides a way forstudents to integrate their experience abroad into their life on campus.Third, the programs address different domains of the reentry experience. Psychologicalcounseling, which has not been discussed here, is something that many schools offer for studentsstruggling emotionally with their adjustment. La Brack’s course and my project synthesis courseallow students to talk through their behavioral missteps, as well as deal intensively with thecognitive aspect of returning. The capstone at Georgia Tech and the Purdue’s GlobalEngineering Reentry course
App, Website etc.Collaboration with the Computer Science DepartmentIt was important first to prototype HWM game using a website implementation. In collaborationwith the Computer Science department in our school, the next step taken was to prototype this incapstone project for an undergraduate class (final course and project before graduation). Thestudent team successfully prototyped the HWM and the approach through a website, and theyalso took some new and independent innovative approaches for strategies. The website and thegame was demonstrated to the class in their final capstone presentation. The game-boarddesigned for this capstone project is shown in Figure 6 below. The engine was running in thebackground and response was instantaneous
or other active experiences may increaseretention of material by up to 90% [25]. Richard Felder and Linda Silverman recommend severalteaching techniques to address all learning styles, one of which is to provide demonstrations forstudents with sensing and visual learning styles and hands-on experiments for students with ac-tive learning styles [26]. According to Moore, there is a direct correlation between in-class per-formance, laboratory attendance, and performance [27]. In capstone related project, active Page 26.972.11learning can be achieved through a variety of activities that include lab and project experimentswith hands-on projects
certificate programincludes the following seven new undergraduate courses13: 1. Introduction to Nanoscience 2. Engineering of Nanomaterials 3. Nanofabrication and Nanoelectronics 4. Introduction to Bio-Nanotechnology 5. Environmental Nanotechnology 6. NanoOptics 7. Capstone DesignTo complete the NCP and receive a Certificate in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, studentsmust complete 12 credit-hours of advance junior and senior level course13.Nanotechnology at Texas State University-San Marcos (Texas State) & University of Texas(UT) at TylerIn a collaborative project between Texas State and University of Texas at Tyler, an introductoryand advanced curricula was developed that addresses the “nanotechnology safety
the final year of engineering education, as part of the capstone design experience. Studentsfirst begin to develop design skills while they are also integrating their engineering contentknowledge and learning to apply it in authentic (or pseudo-authentic) contexts. In some cases,design is also introduced as part of a “cornerstone” experience in the first year of an engineeringprogram. Generally, however, the bulk of the engineering curriculum consists of engineeringscience courses that rely heavily on theoretical mathematics and closed-ended problem solving.Many design studies have investigated the difference between novices and experts in practicingdesign. Novice designers perceive the design task as a well-structured problem5 and
, students pitch proposalsfor a capstone lab project, projects are selected and then a list of them is presented to thefreshmen. Freshmen then rework their resume to apply to be part of the senior project they mostdesire. Senior teams then receive the resumes and choose four to eight freshmen they wish to“hire”. In weeks 10 through 12, freshmen arrange times to join senior teams to aid in thelaboratory tasks needed to complete the senior team’s final project.Homework: Individual students are required to turn in an initial resume, and a resumeincorporating the professor’s changes and tailored to the job they want. At the end of thecollaboration, freshmen teams compose a memo detailing their work with the seniors.Final Project (Weeks 12 - 14):Purpose
, 2010.[15] Ochs, Lennon, Watkins, and Mitchell. A comprehensive model for integrating entrepreneurship education and capstone projects while exceeding abet requirements. In American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2006.[16] Sheri D Sheppard. Mechanical dissection: An experience in how things work. Proceedings of the Engineering Education: Curriculum Innovation & Integration, pages 6–10, 1992.[17] Sheri Sheppard and R Jennison. Freshman engineering design experiences and organizational framework. Inter- national Journal of Engineering Education, 13:190–197, 1997.[18] Otto and Wood. Product Design: Techniques in Reverse Engineering and New Product Development. Prentice Hall, 2001.[19] Abe Feuerstein
provides a strong educational experience via theorycombined with practice in a class/lab atmosphere. Dedicated faculty and staff are directlyinvolved in classes and labs, and each degree program culminates with a senior design or"Capstone" project, which is required for graduation. Capstone projects emphasize projectmanagement, technical deliverables, and multidisciplinary effort in team-oriented, long-termprojects. As a result of the heavy emphasis on practical, applied, and experiential learning,students who graduate from ISOE are well prepared for careers in all aspects of engineering. Theschool has more than 800 engineering students. In addition to modern classrooms and computerlabs, ISOE has fully equipped labs including a class 1000
. These are advanced courses where knowledge of basic undergraduatematerial is required as a prerequisite. The capstone course for the program is a one year designstudio where students working in small teams to design a ship. The yearlong design includes acomprehensive structural design and analysis of the project ship.In the structural course sequence, students take general and advanced structural analysis (i.e.,structural mechanics, plates and shells) before taking the Ship Structural Analysis and Design(SSSAD) course. The SSAD course covers the complexity of ship structures: longitudinalstrength and hull primary stresses, design limit states including plate bending, column and panelbuckling, panel ultimate strength and plastic analysis. Matrix