Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Technical Session 3

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yanko Kranov; Robert T. Bailey P.E., Loyola University Maryland; Suzanne Keilson, Loyola University Maryland

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

points (referred to here as snapshots) were alsoincluded that encouraged effective project management. Students were required to review eachother’s designs, and students in the follow-on capstone course also provided feedback to theteams as their designs progressed. In this work-in-progress paper, details about the coursestructure and materials are presented, learning assessment approaches are discussed, andpreliminary assessment results from the initial offering are described.Introduction and MotivationEvery ABET-accredited engineering program is required to include “a culminating majorengineering design experience that 1) incorporates appropriate engineering standards andmultiple constraints, and 2) is based on the knowledge and skills

Conference Session

Panel on Innovative Graduate Education Concepts: Organized by the National Institute of Aerospace

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Shaurette, Purdue University; Joe Orczyk, Purdue University

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Graduate Studies

often, forbetter or for worse, education is the easiest thing to let go of.”15Comparison to Other Distance Learning ProgramsFour online construction management master's degree programs were endorsed by theAssociated General Contractors of America in 200616. The Department of Building ConstructionManagement is one of these programs. All four of the programs allow students to choosebetween a thesis and a non-thesis academic writing project. One of the four programs also has acoursework only option. Table 2 summarizes the writing requirements for the four programs. Table 2 - Comparison of Capstone Project Requirements for Online AGC Endorsed Construction Management Masters Programs16

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Malinda S Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder; Michael A Soltys, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jennifer Kracha, University of Colorado Boulder

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Community Engagement Division

undergraduate program at the University of ColoradoBoulder piloted an innovative engineering design course available to students in all engineeringdisciplines (link to course site, including examples of student projects:https://www.colorado.edu/eplus/courses/geen-2400-engineering-projects-community​). The purposeof this course is to provide engineering students with the next step in a sequence of hands-on,team-based, interdisciplinary engineering design courses and create a natural progression between afirst-year projects course and senior capstone course. The University already offers anentrepreneurial design course option for juniors but the second-year of coursework was lacking arelated course option. Based on research around project-based service

Conference Session

Emerging Computing and Information Technologies I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afrin Naz, West Virginia University Inst. of Tech.

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Computing & Information Technology

outcomes.The course description This sophomore level class is required for computer science, computer engineering andinformation systems majors in the West Virginia University Institute of Technology. The classenrollment is between 15-18 students. The class is the pre-requisite for CS 322 System Analysisand Design Methodology course which is prerequisite for CS 461 Senior Project capstone class(capstone series). In order to introduce software engineering processes and skills with respect toindustry standards the class is designed to create a real business world simulation. In the class thestudents are grouped in three membered teams and then one student team is assigned as the clientof another. Hence each group will play the role of developer for

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Systems

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge Alvarado, Texas A&M University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

12.446.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Design and Construction of a Lab-Scale Ground Source Heat PumpAbstractUndergraduate engineering and engineering technology students are in need of rigorous andmulti-faceted hands-on activities to enhance their self-confidence and technical skills. Very fewcourses give students the opportunity to approach practical design and production problems in aholistic manner. Senior design courses or capstone projects frequently give students theopportunity to design complex or multi-component systems in a timely effective manner.However, most capstone design projects are only concerned with the design itself and not withproduction, construction, or

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 2

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

LTC Robert Powell

professional responsibilities as student leaders and futurecommissioned officers. Participating agencies gain by having additional personnel to work onengineering projects, and by having the opportunity to expose future Army leaders to theimportant functions performed by their organization. Some AIAD opportunities extend beyondthe summer into the academic year as CAPSTONE projects. These projects continue to allow acadet the opportunity to discover the “real world” applicability of their academic endeavors.This paper explores the uniqueness and nature of our program, its purpose, our process formatching skills with a participating agency and follow-up feedback from cadets. This feedbackis used to assess the viability of the program for future students

Conference Session

Programs That Serve Industry and Academia

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eugene Rutz, University of Cincinnati; Timothy Keener, University of Cincinnati

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Continuing Professional Development

from the discipline of interest ≠ Elective courses that provide depth or interdisciplinary focus depending on student educational objectives ≠ Capstone project demonstrates applications of skills and synthesis of knowledgeCore CurriculumThe core curriculum is required of all MEng students, regardless of which track they pursue.The core provides skills in the effective practice of engineering recognizing that for experiencedpractitioners, effectiveness includes technical skills, project and task management skills, andinterpersonal skills. Students are required to take 2 courses from the Project / Task Management Page 14.863.5set

Conference Session

First Year and Cross-Disciplinary

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Patrick J Martin, Virginia Commonwealth University; Joseph Adams Shelton, Virginia State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Professional Engineering Education Papers

allows cross-institution and interdisciplinarycollaboration on novel design projects and 2) to build students’ technical and collaboration skillsthat will be useful for careers at the intersection of cybersecurity and autonomous systems.Students learned core cybersecurity concepts using closed-ended assignments and expanded theirresearch and design skills with an open-ended design project. Throughout this process, theylearned how to collaborate with other teammates through modern collaboration tools, such asGithub, Google Drive, and Discord. Our student survey indicates that this pilot program achievedits goals and indicates that future iterations should refine the program’s structure and processes.Keywordsexperiential learning, capstone

Conference Session

Innovations in Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacqueline Mozrall; Edward Hensel; Paul Stiebitz

communication are keyexperiential components of the program. Supplemental topics in innovation, entrepreneurship,and contemporary issues in product development, are fostered through lectures and workshops.The capstone program is coordinated by a team of faculty representatives from each participatingdepartment. A standard set of assessment tools is employed by the coordinators, faculty teammentors, project sponsors and external reviewers.The design of a state-of-the-art 8,500 sq.ft., multi-disciplinary design workshop is underway. Itwill provide team work spaces as they develop and analyze concepts, and support for assemblyand testing. This facility is made possible by recent gifts from local foundations and industries.At steady state, approximately

Conference Session

Thermal Systems

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Schmaltz; Robert Choate

, student teams are required to design, build and test (DBT) an experimentaldesign project of their own choice.This project requires experimental problem solving skills, builds upon the analytical andnumerical techniques they have acquired in their engineering science courses, and will then beexpanded upon in a multi-disciplinary capstone laboratory design course in the spring semesterof their senior year. The project is coordinated through the ME program Design of ExperimentsPlan and further supports the ME program's Professional Component Plan by requiring the use ofengineering design with open-ended problems, integration of professional tools, anddemonstration of professional communications. This experience takes place from a point ofview that

Conference Session

Strategies to enhance student learning

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marybeth Lima P.E., Louisiana State University; Ann D. Christy P.E., Ohio State University

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Biological & Agricultural

references, and other materials used by localenvironmental consultants. The results were a series of design reports which were delivered tothe township (Christy et al., 2000).Senior capstone design course: International humanitarian engineering design projects. Atthe Ohio State University (OSU), the Department of Food, Agricultural and BiologicalEngineering expanded the senior capstone design experience to begin at the junior year and toinclude the option of international design projects. For three weeks during the summer betweentheir junior and senior years, teams of students would travel to South Africa to meet withcommunity groups and define design needs. The student teams then returned to the US andworked on year-long capstone design projects

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

William Shelnutt; Monica Lumsdaine; Edward Lumsdaine

“how to” guidelines, planning and economic analysis tool templates (attached on a CD-ROM), and a library of design documentation samples to enable instructors and students to focus on optimizing their design projects and solutions and prevent dysfunctional teams.A teaching manual accompanies the textbook and will be available from a web site. It includessample syllabi for a variety of courses from pre-college programs and freshman engineering orien-tation to senior capstone design and workshops to enhance creativity and innovation in the work-place. This broad range is possible by shifting the emphasis from learning the process of creativeproblem solving to achieving a quality design product. Also, the textbook is built on the

Conference Session

Integrating Curriculum and Labs in Engineering Technology Programs

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

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Engineering Technology

control valve simulatesthe press motions. A total of twelve problem solving projects are utilized in thiscourse.The PLC modules and I/O devices used in this junior level course were specified at thesame voltage and have been designed for patch-cord assembly. This allows thestudents to focus on the job of learning the software and interfacing the I/O deviceswithout the danger of injuring themselves or the components. In the capstone course,this safety net is not present and more time is spent on these concepts.Senior levelArmed with the knowledge and abilities in the prerequisite courses discussed above,students embark on a truly challenging project based problem solving adventure. Thesenior level capstone course is entitled Applied Automation

Conference Session

Design in BME

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University; Annmarie Mullen, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

’s, and use a case study from aspecific biomedical engineering capstone sequence to illustrate how the availability of rapidprototyping has impacted capstone projects and biomedical engineering education at theundergraduate level.The Early History of Rapid PrototypingRapid prototyping (RP) is the process by which a computer-aided design (CAD) file is used tocontrol an automated technology in order to produce a physical model.1 Its origin is often cited tobe with the release of the first technology by 3D Systems in 1987 and it was primarily used tocreate a first generation prototype to quickly verify a design.1 The first commercializedtechnologies in the 1990’s were based upon addition or removal of liquids, powders or solids(Table 1). Liquid

Conference Session

Design Teamwork

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Junichi Kanai, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Mark Anderson, Rensselaer

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

issue tool to manage their projects. On the otherhand, various user statistics obtained from the system allowed the faculty advisors to monitor thefrequency of each student's contributions and to quickly review the content and quality. Thesystem made a significant impact on the outcome of the project results. This paper will presentissues in deploying the tools, the best practices for using these tools, and assessing students’performance in capstone design courses.1. IntroductionTo become successful engineers, students must learn technical knowledge, good communication,skills, and teamwork skills. Traditional lecture-based coursework focuses on providing a solidtheoretical foundation and analytical skills for each of the various disciplines. On

Conference Session

Program Support Initiatives

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Alyson Grace Eggleston, The Citadel; Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Leader Development Model (LDM) through Self and Peer Assessment across the CurriculumAbstractLeadership development and assessment impact the engineering program curriculum at TheCitadel, resulting in embedded indicators and teamed learning activities mapped across all fouryears of the undergraduate curriculum. The institution-specific leadership model developed atThe Citadel prepares students for leadership through teamed challenges and projects, positioningthe engineering program to provide robust learning experiences for students.Reinforced in multiple senior-level capstone design courses and a sophomore-level, engineering-specific communications course

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Poster Session

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine E King, University of California, Irvine; Elliot E Hui; Yama Akbari, University of California, Irvine; Warren Wiechmann, University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

Multi-Year PITP Capstone Project and Activities: Upon completion of elective courseand capstone program, PITP medical students can apply to the full PITP to develop a multi-yearcapstone project that is either an extension of their BME capstone experience or a novel design.They are required to participate in a summer internship during their multi-year capstone tounderstand how industry implement novel technologies. The students are supported by theprogram directors through monthly update meetings to assess their progress and provideresources and support. They are then required to present their findings during their final year ofmedical school, and are encouraged to participate in the UCI BME Masters of Engineering(MEng) program to further their

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bret Van Poppel; Blace Albert; Daisie Boettner

programs or by integrating engineering program design sequences (thislatter option is discussed below, Integrated, Multidisciplinary Design Sequence). Theseopportunities would allow students to improve their abilities to work together on multidisciplinaryprojects. This is a very important skill in engineering practice and in the Army. The currentprogram attempts to groom this skill during cadets’ senior year capstone design project.However, students often have limited opportunity to work with others outside of their discipline.Too often students try to divide project tasks into very distinct parts as opposed to bringing theirdiverse skills together to synergistically design the best product. The reason this happens is thattheir compartmentalized

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 7

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Moore, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Liesl Folks, The University of Arizona; Erin Rowley, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

infiltrates many areas of engineering andscience. Yet within engineering programs, students often have few opportunities to developexpertise in data science or even to explore how data science is relevant to their degreespecializations. This paper reports on an NSF-funded study of a program that prepares STEMstudents to engage with data science in coursework and then mentors them as they secureinternships and complete a capstone that demonstrates their application of data science expertise.Drawing on a mixed-methods study, including student reflections, capstone project assessment,and survey reporting, this paper suggests not only that students make deep connections betweentheir existing majors and data science but also that students trained in our

Conference Session

Integrating HSS into the Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dave Hergert; Ron Earley; Suguna Bommaraju

designcourse is embedded with these attributes so that the student graduates with a well-roundededucation.This paper describes how the engineering technology capstone course (senior design project) atMiami University has been structured to facilitate Liberal education council’s guidelines. The fourcomponents of liberal education are explained in this paper and a discussion of how each of theseattributes is enhanced in the course is presented. For example, the capstone course offers a uniqueopportunity to learn about ethics (understanding contexts attribute). Because the department doesnot have a separate ethics course, a guest speaker lecture on ethics is arranged in the senior designcourse. Students apply this concept to a hypothetical scenario

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Design Methodology

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elise Barrella P.E., Wake Forest University ; Charles McDonald Cowan II, Wake Forest University; Justyn Daniel Girdner, James Madison University; Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Robin Anderson, James Madison University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

systems, like Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) orEnvisionTM, are essentially rubrics for professional projects and have been used to introduce civilengineering students about sustainable design and evaluate capstone projects [4, 9]. Althoughthey are valuable learning tools, professional rating systems are often limited to a subset ofproject topics (i.e., infrastructure) and may be difficult for students to apply to their morenarrowly scoped projects.In order to address the assessment tool gap, we sought to develop a sustainable design rubric thatcould be applied to student projects across engineering disciplines and to employ a rigorousconstruct validation process for the rubric’s development. Benson opens her article on

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Clifford R. Mirman

project where the engineer must usenumerical work and experimental methods. In the Mechanical Engineering program at Wilkes University,students of senior standing must take a capstone design laboratory course which integrates the stems ofthe program into a semester long design project incorporating a laboratory and numerical component.The ability to set-up and apply both experimental and numerical analysis to a design problem, andinterpret the results, is very important to the mechanical engineering student. The results of this projectsare presented both in written and oral form to fellow students, faculty, and industry. The combination ofanalysis techniques in the different areas of mechanical engineering give the students a completeintroduction

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard R. Schultz

involved in introducing undergraduate students to thejoys and frustrations of signal and image processing research. Experiences are described from worksupported in part by National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grantnumber MIP-9624849, entitled “A Career Plan for the Integration of Image Processing Education andResearch.” Research-based projects were included in several required and elective courses taught by theprincipal investigator, including Computer Aided Measurement and Controls; CommunicationsEngineering; Digital Image Processing; Discrete Real-Time Filtering; Capstone Senior Design; andIndependent Study. Some of the projects attempted by the students included a hybrid DiscreteCosine/Wavelet Transform for

Conference Session

Integrating Design into the BME Curriculum

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Larry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Chris Yoder, University of Pittsburgh; Phil Weilerstein, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance; Angela Shartrand, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance

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Biomedical

might be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the overalldesign artifact in meeting its design specifications and purpose.1.0 IntroductionIn this paper we provide an initial descriptive study of how different teams of bioengineering“inventors” navigate the design process from idea conception to prototype. Nine bioengineeringcapstone teams from the Swanson School of Engineering Department of Bioengineering and 27teams from throughout the U.S. who entered the BME-Idea national competition each reflectedupon and diagramed their experiences via process maps that captured their engineering designand product development activities. Although many of the BME-Idea projects also resulted frombioengineering capstone projects, several others were either

Collection

2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Nannan He; Gale Allen; Cameron Johnson

of automation components including programmable logic controllers (PLC’s),actuators and robots, sensors, motors, drivers, and operator control displays. Students design,simulate, build, test and document automation systems for capstone projects to demonstrate theirunderstanding of the subjects. The initial version of the courses and lab was described in a paperin late fall 2006 1.Since then, several different types of laboratory equipment have been added the course syllabusand material has been continuously improved. Active learning and hands-on learning are thebasis for instruction in the courses. Several short projects have been added to the course. Teamsof two-to-three students develop and complete capstone projects. More details about

Conference Session

Design Methodolgy

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rudolph Eggert, Boise State University

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Design in Engineering Education

1994. The largest group of respondents came from mechanical engineering,however, civil, industrial and electrical programs were fairly represented. The survey includedinformation on faculty involvement, industrial involvement, duration of projects, instructionhours per week, and most pertinent to this paper, the most frequently taught subjects as shown inTable 3. The rightmost column labeled “%” represents the proportion of responding schools thattaught the subject in their capstone course. The table is one of the earliest quantitative reports ofdesign topics and or subjects actually taught across North America. It provides an importantglimpse of specific engineering design topics that can be included in a design curriculum.In 1995, ASME6

Conference Session

Design Through the Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Keat; Michael Larson

designexperience, (2) the nature of the senior capstone experience, (3) the level of integration ofcomputer-aided design software in courses and (4) the degree to which hands-on projects areemployed.IntroductionThe current state of mechanical engineering design education is the product of a number offactors. ABET requirements, arising in part from perceptions of the needs of industry, havecertainly played a role. Widespread changes in higher education (e.g. economic forces,demographics, new computing tools) have also affected how design education is delivered. Tohelp quantify discussions concerning adequacy of contemporary design education in light ofindustry’s needs and academia’s constraints, we have undertaken this national survey.A baseline

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Keat; Michael Larson

designexperience, (2) the nature of the senior capstone experience, (3) the level of integration ofcomputer-aided design software in courses and (4) the degree to which hands-on projects areemployed.IntroductionThe current state of mechanical engineering design education is the product of a number offactors. ABET requirements, arising in part from perceptions of the needs of industry, havecertainly played a role. Widespread changes in higher education (e.g. economic forces,demographics, new computing tools) have also affected how design education is delivered. Tohelp quantify discussions concerning adequacy of contemporary design education in light ofindustry’s needs and academia’s constraints, we have undertaken this national survey.A baseline

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olga Imas, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Jeffrey A. Lamack, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Larry Fennigkoh P.E., Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering

same time as the second capstone designcourse in which the students continue assessing the feasibility of their design projects, developtheir functional design specifications and work toward system-level designs. Thus, the deviceevaluation course complements the design process topics with those of regulation and deviceevaluation and allows for course assignments specific to the students’ design projects. Thecourse is offered two quarters after the Professional Topics in Biomedical Engineering courseand builds upon other professional BME topics such as intellectual property, engineeringstandards, design for manufacturing, healthcare economics, globalization of medical devices,ethics in medical device development, documentation, and user

Conference Session

Improving the Pedagogy of Laboratory Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine; William Marshall, Alief Independent School District

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

industries. The discussion will also identify how the “need” for thistype of project based curriculum became obvious. Four prerequisite courses are brieflydescribed before focusing on the project based capstone course. These four coursesprovide the students with the technical skill sets needed to succeed in the senior levelcapstone course. Accomplishments and outcomes from the student perspective, theUniversity perspective, and the industry perspective will also be shared.Our advancing world of computer integration, process control, industrial automation, andtelecommunications requires technical problem solvers and knowledgeable decisionmakers. “The activities of problem solving and decision making are closelyintertwined”,1 and both skills can