Conference Session

Design Projects in Manufacturing

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Kashef; Mark Rajai

Session 2563 Innovative Approaches to Collaborative Design Projects Mark Rajai, Ali Kashef University of Memphis/University of Northern IowaAbstractRapid changes in technology and a global economic recession have prompted many leadingmanufacturing companies to reevaluate and upgrade their design and manufacturing process.An increasing number of these companies have moved from traditional design environment to avirtual one. Companies such as Boeing have utilized various new software/tools and adoptedinnovative technologies to reduce cost and time to market for new products. In

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seyed Hossein Mousavinezhad, Idaho State University; Paul J. Benkeser, Georgia Institute of Technology; Pamela Bhatti, Georgia Institute of Technology; Burton Dicht, IEEE; Douglas Gorham, IEEE; Chris Macnab, University of Calgary; Sadiq Mitchell, IEEE; Cherrice Traver, Union College; Stephen M. Williams P.E., Milwaukee School of Engineering; Loren Wyard-Scott, University of Alberta

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2012-5132: IEEE REAL WORLD ENGINEERING PROJECTS (RWEP)Dr. Seyed Hossein Mousavinezhad, Idaho State University Seyed Hossein Mousavinezhad is professor and Chair, Electrical Engineering Department, Idaho State University. He is active with ASEEECE Division, is IEEE Education Society’s Membership Development Chair, and is Van Valkenburg Awards Committee Chair. Mousavinezhad is founding General Chair of International IEEE Electro Information Technology Conferences, http://www.eit-conference.org/.Dr. Paul J. Benkeser, Georgia Institute of Technology Paul J. Benkeser is a professor and Senior Associate Chair in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. He is past

Conference Session

Energy, the Environment, and Nano Technology

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julanne K. McCulley, Weber State University; Dustin Scott Birch, Weber State University; Megumi Usui Leatherbury, Weber State University; Kelly A. Harward, Weber State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). McCulley is a board member of the CAPA and SPARKS National Science Foundation project with five years of service. She has more than 17 years’ experience working in industry as a project engineer specializing in automation and controls engineering.Prof. Dustin Scott Birch, Weber State University Dustin S. Birch possesses a master’s of science in mechanical engineering from the University of Utah, a bachelor’s of science in mechanical engineering from the University of Utah, and an associate’s of sci- ence in design and drafting engineering technology from Ricks College. Birch is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Technology Department at Weber State University. He

Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alireza Kavianpour, DeVry University, Pomona; David Layton, DeVry University, Pomona

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Computing & Information Technology

. Page 25.1009.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Online Teaching of Senior ProjectsAbstractThe senior projects course is an important assessment tool for technology related majors. Almostevery university uses this course for evaluating graduates. The requirements for onsite teachingcan vary from university to university. Often, the course consists of research on a selected topic,design, presentation for review by judges (faculty, staff, and industry representative), and a finaldocument. Although there is much information about senior projects requirements, there are nosuggestions for teaching this course online. The following paper is a proposal of a model forpurely

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stuart Wentworth, Auburn University; Dennis Silage, Temple University; Michael Baginski, Auburn University

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2010-36: INDIVIDUALIZED MATLAB PROJECTS IN UNDERGRADUATEELECTROMAGNETICSStuart Wentworth, Auburn University Stu Wentworth received his Electrical Engineering doctorate from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1990. Since then he has been with Auburn University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, specializing in electromagnetics and microelectronics. He has authored a pair of undergraduate electromagnetics texts, and has won several awards related to teaching. He is a long-standing member of his department’s curriculum and assessment committee.Dennis Silage, Temple University DENNIS SILAGE (silage@temple.edu) received the PhD in EE from the University of Pennsylvania

Conference Session

Design Projects in Mechanical Engineering I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Shepard, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Camille George, University of St. Thomas

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2010-175: DESALINATION DESIGN PROJECT FOR THERMODYNAMICSLABThomas Shepard, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Thomas Shepard is a Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. candidate at the University of Minnesota. He received an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Oregon State University and B.A. in Physics from Colorado College. His teaching interests include undergraduate courses in the thermal/fluid sciences, experimental methods and renewable energy technologies. He has research interests in experimental fluid mechanics, energy conversion, and engineering education.Camille George, University of St. Thomas Camille George is an Associate Professor and the Program Director of Mechanical Engineering at

Conference Session

K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Aaron Blicblau

Promotion of Final Year Capstone Projects Aaron S Blicblau School of Engineering and Science, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, AustraliaIntroductionIn many engineering courses around the world one of the key aspects required of the studentsis that they complete an independent project in their final year of studies. Project work is nowconsidered to be an important part of an engineer’s training4-6. Students enrolled in their finalyear of mechanical engineering at Swinburne University of Technology are required toundertake and complete a final year project (major capstone project). Students may select aproject from a list

Conference Session

TIME 1: Controls

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Kiefer

Session #2004-556 Project Oriented Course in Mechatronics Scott Kiefer Tri-State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes a multi-disciplinary, hands-on, project oriented course in mechatronics.The course relied almost entirely on active learning techniques using student project work, andincluded the development of oral and written communication skills. Student and facultyassessment of the learning objectives of this course are included in the paper.Although open to all engineering and technology students, the mechatronics course wascomposed of two

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Evans; Ronald Welch

Session 3215 Undergraduate Independent Study Research Projects Ronald W. Welch, Mark D. Evans United States Military AcademyAbstractThis paper describes a senior independent study course used successful by the ABET-AccreditedCivil Engineering Program at the United States Military Academy (USMA) that is believed togreatly enhance the academic program. The three general project types of independent studyprojects available are service-based, competition-based, and research-based. The mix of theseopen-ended projects usually ensures that each student can list a minimum of 3-5

Conference Session

FPD 9: First-Year Projects

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Scott Moor, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Stephen Heindel, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne; Yanfei Liu, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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First-Year Programs

Page 24.482.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Energy Scavenging - an Introductory Engineering ProjectIntroductionFirst year engineering courses come with a wide range of objectives and configurations.However, it is quite common that they include a hands-on project of some kind. A recent work-in-progress attempting to develop a taxonomy for first-year engineering programs has noted fouroverarching possible categories for what is covered in these courses: 1) professional skills (e.g.,teamwork, communication), 2) engineering skills (e.g., mathematics, programing, graphics), 3)orientation to the engineering profession and 4) orientation to the particular university/program(including

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin William Weiser, Eastern Washington University; Hani Serhal Saad, Eastern Washington University; Kyle Frederick Larsen P.E., Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Management

Paper ID #10460Computer Aided Design and Project ManagementProf. Martin William Weiser, Eastern Washington University Martin Weiser is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering and Design Department at Eastern Washington University. He earned his BS in Ceramic Engineering from the Ohio State University and his MS and PhD in Materials Science and Mineral Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He then joined the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of New Mexico where he taught Materials Science, Thermodynamics, Manufacturing Engineering, and Technical Communication. Mar- tin then joined

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone Design

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Kaplan, California State University, Northridge; James Flynn, California State University, Northridge; Sharlene Katz P.E., California State University, Northridge

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

demonstrated in the context of such a project. These include the ability todesign a system, process or component to meet desired needs and the ability to function on amultidisciplinary team. This paper describes a recent California State University, Northridgesenior design project in which engineering (computer, electrical, and mechanical) and computerscience students work on a multidisciplinary team to design, build, test, and eventually launch aCubeSat carrying a research experiment. The scope of this project has provided an excellentopportunity for computer science students to collaborate with engineering students. In additionto its value as a motivational multidisciplinary project, the project has given students anopportunity to collaborate with

Conference Session

Capstone Courses and Project Based-Learning

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John-David S. Yoder, Ohio Northern University

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Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #10985Design Projects Concurrent with Capstone DesignDr. John-David S Yoder, Ohio Northern University Page 24.373.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Design Projects Concurrent with Capstone DesignABSTRACTNearly all Mechanical Engineering programs have a capstone design experience. In manycurricula, there is a classroom component that complements the capstone course. Thispaper presents a novel approach to that “complementary” class – one in which students areasked to complete two design projects

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Dunn

Developing a Workable Senior Construction Management Capstone Project Philip A. Dunn, Jr. PE Assistant Professor of Construction Management Technology, School of Engineering Technology, University of Maine at OronoAbstractA senior capstone course should challenge students to use the skills that they have developed intheir college experience. Because construction management curricula is so diversified, seniorcapstone projects have to be practical exercises that incorporate both business principles andprofessional construction management practice. In the spring 2004 semester at the University ofMaine, a construction management capstone class was

Conference Session

First-Year Design Experiences

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Teodora Shuman; Greg Mason

Three Freshman Team Design Projects Teodora Rutar, Greg Mason Mechanical Engineering Department, Seattle UniversityAbstractThis paper contains a detailed description of three design team-projects developed for a freshmancourse in mechanical engineering. All projects include the research, design, prototyping, testing,and analysis phases of the design process, and can be completed within half of a two quarter-credit course. They are detailed and in-depth, spanning beyond the typical “hobby-shop”freshman projects.The three team-projects are the design and testing of a wind turbine, a door handle, and aflywheel. The description of each includes the list of project

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports

Senior Design Project Commercialization and Entrepreneurship Ken Ports, Carmo D’Cruz, Muzaffar Shaikh, Carolyn Fausnaugh Florida Institute of TechnologyAbstractThis paper describes the development and growth of an innovative new program that is asynergistic combination of Florida Tech’s technology commercialization-related course offeringsin Engineering Management, its Senior Design course curriculum, and its new businessaccelerator, Florida TechStart. The program is designed for the subset of senior design coursestudents who desire to leverage their design course experience by commercializing theirinnovative products and technologies and creating start-up companies.Florida Tech’s

Conference Session

Design for Community

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Darrell Gibson

Session 2625 Service-Learning in Capstone Design Projects: Emphasizing Reflection Patricia Brackin, J. Darrell Gibson Department of Mechanical Engineering Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractService-learning offers opportunities for students to help their community whiledemonstrating ABET EC 2000 criteria. This paper gives a brief introduction to servicelearning concepts and then focuses on methods to increase student reflectionIntroductionService learning projects are typically sponsored by a community partner and givestudents the opportunity to interact with

Conference Session

Capstone Course in Industrial Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Darnell Austin

Session 3250 Lessons Learned from Capstone Projects Darnell Austin California State University, Fresno and University of the PacificIntroduction Capstone or senior projects present students with an opportunity to learn from theexperience of putting their technology lessons in to practice. This paper reviews some of thetheories of learning from these experiential activities as well as provides some methods andexamples for working with the students in these activities.Picking the project One of the foremost educational theorists, John Dewey defined several ways of thinkingsuch as imagination, belief and stream of consciousness. He contended that learning

Conference Session

Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ranjith Munasinghe

Multidisciplinary Research Projects for Engineering Students Ranjith A. Munasinghe Department of Mathematics West Virginia University Institute of Technology Montgomery, WV 25136 rmunasinghe@wvutech.eduIntroduction Undergraduate engineering students learn calculus during the first three semesters incollege. Most of the calculus topics are taught as abstract concepts without any science orengineering applications. It is not any better in other classes such as differential equations andlinear algebra. Students are asked to solve algebraic and differential equations

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverly Davis

Initiating Interdisciplinary Projects: Finding Common Ground Gil Laware, Beverly Davis, and Karl Perusich Purdue University, College of Technology, 1733 Northside Blvd. South Bend, IN 46634AbstractSuccessful approaches to interdisciplinary projects depend on several key components. The firstand foremost is to recognize commonality in purpose. In an educational setting, that is thestudent. As colleagues at a prominent university, we have been encouraged by the president ofour university and the dean of our college to work collaboratively across our disciplines. Most ofthe interdisciplinary projects and scholarly activities undertaken by the authors

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Darrell Gibson; Patricia Brackin

Session XXXX CAPSTONE DESIGN PROJECTS WITH INDUSTRY: EMPHASIZING TEAMING AND MANAGEMENT TOOLS M. Patricia Brackin, J. Darrell Gibson Department of Mechanical Engineering Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe benefits of company sponsored capstone design projects, both to academia and to industry,have been well established. At Rose-Hulman the benefits to students include the broadening oftheir engineering skills, the required interaction with practicing engineers, the strengthening ofteaming skills by working in design groups, the development of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jim Rand; Don Bowie; Donald Peter; Anthony Donaldson

to prepare their business counterparts to make the same kind of presentation on oneof their projects or some technical principle of electrical engineering. These experiences providepowerful ”hands-on” venues in which students from differing disciplines are exposed to thediverse vocabularies and modes of thinking representative of actual professional workingenvironments . This paper provides the basic classroom/workshop/laboratory activities that wereundertaken, an indication of the educational experiences involved, a sampling of student verbalfeedback, and future expansion considerations for this multidisciplinary interaction.Intr oduction: Industr ial InvolvementSince it’s inception in 1985, Seattle Pacific University’s (SPU) Electrical

Conference Session

Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

at the University of New Haven. Through this course, a key componentof the Multidisciplinary Engineering Foundation Spiral, seeks to promote higherretention rates, increase student motivation and begin a confidence-building transition toprofessional practice.Project management concepts are integrated for application by students to projectactivities. Thus students develop the project and self-management skills required tosuccessfully plan and implement selected projects within budgetary and time constraintsusing Microsoft Project. Projects use LabVIEW programming1 for data acquisition andcontrol and CAD tools for technical communication of design information. Students gainproficiency in each of these areas as they are applied to a series of

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Parten

Session 1824 Embedded Microprocessors in a Project Laboratory Micheal Parten Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Texas Tech UniversityI IntroductionElectrical and Computer Engineering students have a need to be able to design and build systemswith embedded microprocessors. They also need to be able to become familiar with differentprocessors. There are many different ways to teach microprocessors and their applications. AtTexas Tech University this goal is accomplished through a number of laboratories and courses.Students first

Conference Session

Provocative Presentations & Lunch

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ikhlaq Sidhu

Sessions Number: 2454 ROI Projection Results for E-Portfolios Ikhlaq Sidhu, Ali Yassine, Sahail Shariff Technology Entrepreneur Center Department of General Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, Illinois, USA Page 9.1075.1Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Hoskin; Ronald Welch

Session 2793 Scope Management for Independent Study projects James R. Hoskin, Ronald W. Welch Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering United States Military Academy at West PointAbstractIndependent study projects serve as avenues for mature students to participate in detailed studyprojects on topics of their own interest. These study projects foster student creativity and self-motivated, autonomous work, which frequently results in a student’s best work. Often, theseprojects are inter-collegiate competitions, independent research, or a community or

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rana Mitra; John-David Yoder; Michael Rider

Session 1566 Implementing a Cross-Course Design Project John-David Yoder, Michael Rider, and Rana Mitra Department of Mechanical Engineering Ohio Northern UniversityAbstract:Juniors at Ohio Northern University are typically enrolled in three Mechanical Engineeringcourses during the fall quarter. These include ME 311, Process of Mechanical Design, ME 341,Manufacturing Processes, and ME 371, Numerical Methods. In the fall of 2002, the designproject for the ME 311 course was altered to integrate material from these three courses. Studentteams designed a part

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stani Vlasseva; Valentin Razmov

Session 1793 Feedback Techniques for Project-based Courses Valentin Razmov, Stani Vlasseva Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington, Seattle { valentin, stani } @ cs.washington.eduAbstractFeedback is important for student learning, yet many instructors are rightly concerned about thetime they spend giving feedback, especially if they cannot tell whether it is used or ignored bythe students. Similarly, instructors can benefit from student feedback, yet to achieve this,effective mechanisms for

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Alford

Session 3125 Multidisciplinary Computer Science Design Projects Kenneth L. Alford United States Military AcademyIntroduction1By its very nature, engineering represents an integrative and multidisciplinary experience. Intheir senior year, students majoring in computer science at the United States Military Academyat West Point, New York are required to take two multidisciplinary senior project design courses.Each course is 3.0 credit hours with a 0.5 credit lab. These courses are part of an ABET-accredited computer science

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Blackwell

Session 2548 Sophomore Project/Capstone Course Glenn R. Blackwell ECET - Purdue University West Lafayette, IN blackwell@purdue.eduabstract:This paper describes a new project course in ECET at Purdue University. It is a course taken bystudents in their 4th semester of the 2+2 ECET program, and may be considered a capstonecourse for the AS degree. In it the students must work with a time plan, and must follow adesign guide that has them combine both analog and digital