Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Duffy, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; David Kazmer, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; John Ting, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Carol Barry, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Xiaoqi Zhang, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Donn Clark, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Alan Rux, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

faculty new to S-L. The authors of this paper providedadditional help voluntarily. A motto for the faculty has been: “Start small rather than not atall.” Courses were offered in the academic year 2004-05 by twenty-five different facultymembers. The courses and their S-L projects are listed in Table A1 in Appendix A. The Page 12.1275.4majority of the projects represent about 10-15% of the course, while some like capstone designwere 100% S-L driven, and others provided S-L extra credit worth only a few percent.Most of the same courses were offered in the fall of 2005 with some additions, as shown in TableA2, also in Appendix A. Five faculty members

Conference Session

A Technology Potpourri II

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Duong Vu, Duy Tan University-Vietnam; Ashfaq Ahmed P.E., Purdue University Northwest; Omer Farook, Purdue University Northwest

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

performance was translated into individual grades.6. ConclusionsThe senior capstone design experience provided students the opportunity to apply what theyhave learned in their undergraduate courses in previous years into a viable project. It bridges thegap between classroom and industry and allows students to apply their knowledge and skills totackle real world challenges. It gives them the responsibility and freedom to perform at their ownpace and learn to interact and communicate with their team mates. The studio / lab learningenvironment provides them a learning platform that is beyond the boundaries of the classroomand prepares them for the industry. Additionally, this experience provides the concerned facultyto think beyond the confines of the

Collection

2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Michele H. Miller; Kari L. Jordan

programinitiated community based senior design projects [57]. The primary benefit was that studentsrecognized they could positively impact the lives of others. In addition, the projects engaged at-risk students.Because design is process oriented, it is a natural place to include ethics education [58]. McLeannotes that two aspects of the design process invite ethical considerations: identification of criteriaand constraints and questioning related to the product life-cycle. Ethics goes beyond concernsfor public safety to include consideration of environmental impacts and sustainability.AssessmentBecause senior capstone design classes synthesize knowledge from the entire curriculum, theypresent an ideal opportunity for program assessment. These assessments

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering: Adjusting Course Content

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Mirth, St. Cloud State University

Mechanisms and Robotics course. The nextsection describes a fifth project used to introduce automation from a robotics perspective.Robotics – Design and Construction of a 2 Degree-of-Freedom Planar ManipulatorThe fifth project is a “capstone project” for the course. The last four weeks of the semester-longcourse introduce robotics, with a focus on the position analysis of both serial and parallel robots.In the fifth project, students create a two degree-of-freedom planar manipulator - a five-barmechanism with a tracer point. The planar manipulator is a simple parallel robot that introducesstudents to stepper motors and the control of multiple degree-of-freedom systems.The fifth project has several parts. The first is a CAD design and simulation. The

Conference Session

Engineering, Ethics, and Leadership

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Marincel Payne, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Kenneth W. Lamb P.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Seth Claberon Sullivan, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS), Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

engineering students (approximately 4,500 seniors)spread across 15 departments, so assessing all senior capstone students is not feasible. For thisiteration of our research, we collected responses from students in as many different departmentsas possible, recognizing that the distribution of the survey is instructor dependent.At TAMU, all undergraduate engineering capstone projects are completed as team assignments,so students have the opportunity to develop and practice teamwork skills. However, theinstruction provided on psychological safety and effective teamwork varies greatly fromdepartment to department and even from instructor to instructor. TAMU has a selectiveleadership development program that includes instruction and practice in related

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division (EMD) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard (Rick) Warren Blank, Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals; Stanislaw Tarchalski, The Johns Hopkins University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management Division (EMD)

Paper ID #41624Preparing Future Generations for Executive Leadership Roles in TechnicalOrganizationsMr. Richard (Rick) Warren Blank, Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals Richard W (Rick) Blank, B.A., B.S., M.S. Mr. Blank is a Lecturer in the Engineering for Professionals Master of Engineering Management Program at the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering. In this program he teaches Planning & Managing Projects; Finance, Contracts, & Compliance for Technical Professionals; Strategic Communications in Technical Organizations; and Executive Technical Leadership. He also holds an appointment as the

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed Elzomor, Florida International University; Rubaya Rahat, Florida International University; Piyush Pradhananga; Claudia Calle Müller, Florida International University

sustainable infrastructure ratingsystems into architectural design studios, capstone engineering, and sustainability constructioncourses.Keywords: Sustainability Professional, Sustainable infrastructure, Equitable infrastructure,Engineering education.Introduction and BackgroundInfrastructure projects play a critical role in the built environment providing the basis forpersonal security and public health, influencing the economic growth and competitiveness ofcommunities, providing drinking water and waste removal, and, most importantly, allowingbuilding and industrial projects to connect with all main utilities. Realizing the importance ofinfrastructures, on August 10, the U.S. Senate passed a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill[1]. The bill

Conference Session

Improving ME Education: Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University; Peter Baumann, Central Connecticut State University; Alfred Gates, Central Connecticut State University; Zdzislaw Kremens, Central Connecticut State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

and Possible Ways of ImplementationKey attributes 1 Suggested but not limited to possible means of achieving“The Engineer of 2020” the desired attributesStrong analytical skills Science and mathematics with focus on applications involving analytical objectives of several technical courses, which would develop strong reasoning skills rather than memorizationPractical ingenuity Accountable laboratory requirements – well coordinated laboratories and lectures. Application oriented projects – Perhaps all capstone projects should be

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering in Silico

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erick J. Nefcy, Oregon State University; Philip H. Harding, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

. Page 22.321.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Characterization of Student Model Development in Physical and Virtual LaboratoriesAbstractThis study characterizes student teams’ use of models as they proceed through three laboratoryprojects in the first quarter of the capstone laboratory sequence in the School of Chemical,Biological, and Environmental Engineering at Oregon State University. Two of the laboratoriesare physical laboratories, based on the unit processes of heat exchange and ion exchange.Sandwiched between these two laboratories, students undertake a virtual laboratory project. Thevirtual laboratory is used to simulate complex or expensive tools that

Conference Session

Faculty Attitudes and Perceptions

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cathy Burack, Brandeis University; John Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Alan Melchior, Brandeis University; Eric Morgan, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

exercise, it can potentially help someone.” They also sawservice-learning as a way of reinforcing the idea that engineering (and engineers) can contributeto the solution of social problems in the community. However, these benefits were generallyframed as coincidental outcomes rather than as an intentional, integrated part of the community-based learning experience for students. One faculty member noted that it is “difficult to focus onsocial implications. In the capstone, we do ask students to think about environmental and socialissues as part of review questions. But we don’t have significant discussions on socialconnections as part of projects.” Another faculty member in a different department said, “Wedon’t talk about social impacts much. We

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ruane

. Even within a single program, e.g. electricalengineering, design challenges are not propagated through the curriculum. Consequently, designis seen as an isolated activity, rather than a driving force for the curriculum. In independentcourse design exercises, students experience little design rework, systems integration, teamdesign and testing. Students seldom have time to follow a complete design cycleA capstone design experience in senior year traditionally addresses these problems. At BostonUnveristy, each program has a required senior design capstone course, usually organized overtwo semesters. In the first semester of senior design, students are instructed in design andprototyping methods, project planning and management, proposal and

Conference Session

Learning through Instrumentation: Experiences and Applications

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David N. Long, James Madison University; Karim Altaii, James Madison University

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation Division (INST)

and Monitor Temperatures and Atmospheric Air ParametersAbstract The optimization and performance of many systems require data collection for thetemperature variation of solids, liquids, and air parameters that vary from one location toanother. For example, monitoring the performance of an Atmospheric Water Generator Devicethat utilizes geothermal heat rejection to condense vapor in the humid air. This device requiresair parameters, water temperatures, and soil temperature variation to be measured to understandthe system. This paper presents a capstone project that involved the design and implementationof an inexpensive data acquisition system that utilizes off-the-shelf components. Twelveparameters are collected

Conference Session

Design Spine

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Salah Badjou, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

reports on the results of efforts at integrating online learning to the junior-level and capstone fifth-year-level interdisciplinary electromechanical andelectromechanical/biomedical design courses at Wentworth Institute of Technology. Themotivation is to enhance student time management as well as develop an effective model ofhybrid interdisciplinary engineering design course with the most appropriate technology. Thejunior-level course is an intense course where students are expected to complete an originaldesign and a prototype in one semester. Project and time management are critical. The capstoneproject is made of a sequence of 2 semester courses and involves the same requirements as thejunior design course. Groups typically include 3 to 5

Conference Session

Circuits & Systems Education I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason McGuire, Sonoma State University; Farid Farahmand, Sonoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

number of capstone projects selected by students involving the implementation of variouswireless/wired monitoring systems. These systems measure various physical phenomenon suchas a creek’s water level and water flow, or counting the number of cars in a parking lot, or thepower generated by a solar panel system. While our EE students are capable of completing anddemonstrating the hardware design, they often struggle in areas such as data management anddeveloping data visualization. Many student teams have used various platforms known as Cloud-based IoT services, that allow data logging on the cloud [5]. The key issue with utilizing suchservices is that many students don’t fully understand the underlying technologies. In fact, our student

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack

interfaced to the Internet, in thesecond the project was design to be interfaced to a PLC. All of the projects are now in use sup-porting undergraduate laboratories and outreach programs.1. IntroductionThe school of engineering at Grand Valley State University (GVSU) had it’s first graduates in1988. Since then, the school has continued to grow and now has students in electrical, computer,mechanical and manufacturing engineering. The faculty and curriculum are not departmentalizedby program as is found in most programs. As a result, it is quite easy to offer courses and projectsthat have multidisciplinary content.The engineering program at GVSU is practical in nature. This includes mandatory co-op employ-ment and a two semester capstone project. The

Conference Session

Curriculum in Engineering Leadership Development

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammadreza Ostadali Makhmalbaf, Virginia Tech; Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development Division

leading a team, and enhancement of students’ understanding of the ―big picture,‖ such asethical and social concerns relevant to the engineering field.13 In addition, Nelson et al. (2014)state that learning and practicing how to collaborate with other students and working in teams is amain objective of the capstone program.15 Regular team meetings every week are seen to beeffective in improving the team functions, eventually resulting in developing leadership skills.27The objectives of team meetings are to better monitor the fulfillment of assignments and worktasks, argue ideas and thoughts for questions associated with team projects and responsibilities,and authorize team members to provide work plans for the upcoming week.27Other literature

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ruane

of technical information. Record keeping is critical to successfullegacy projects, both to accelerate the learning curve of teams at the start of each semester, andto maintain progress across multiple teams during the term. Student enthusiasm is high for real Page 4.466.8projects like SPECTRE, and the design experiences are valuable for novice engineers.Substantial extended design can be successfully attempted within a capstone course ifmanagement continuity is maintained and if student teams develop effective communicationsand provide good engineering documentation for their successors.AcknowledgmentsThe author wants to thank Amptek and Ocean

Collection

2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kevin Dahm

obtained from the evaluation both for individual student grading and forprogrammatic assessmentA previous paper6 described how this process evolved over the past ten years. This paperfocuses on the assessment process as it is currently implemented. One section is devotedto each of the six tasks summarized above.1) Identify Courses that Offer a Culminating Experience in the CurriculumThe program’s current assessment plan is built around two courses: Chemical PlantDesign, the capstone design experience, and Junior/Senior Engineering Clinic, aninterdisciplinary project-based course.Chemical Plant DesignNote that programmatic objectives require that graduates will possess certain skills andaptitudes. Demonstrating, for example, that students are

Conference Session

Faculty & Program Exchanges: Internationalizing, Collaborations, Interactions

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Richardson, Purdue University; Glenn Blackwell, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

International

formal technical proposal for a project, 8 - write a formal technicalreport on the results of the project, 9 - define a problem, and propose a solution to be carriedthrough in their capstone senior design course. At the end of the team project course, thestudents took the information learned through the prototypes they developed and then proceededto carry out a full project implementation in their individual capstone senior design course.System Integration:The overall system integration occurred in a two week period at the end of May, 2009, inSwitzerland, at the beginning of which the Purdue students and one of the faculty coachestraveled to Lucerne. It should be noted that the Purdue University students were promised at thebeginning of the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 5

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kushal Adhikari, Juniata College

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

25 engineering students. While the upward trend in enrollment is promising, laboratories and facilities essential for hands-on learning must be expanded and improved, and thus, a "living" engineering laboratory was proposed. This project aims to integrate experiential learning into core engineering courses, aligning with ABET standards. The envisioned outcome is two-fold: first, to enhance the educational experience for students by providing them with practical and real-world learning opportunities within their core courses; second, this initiative aims to align Juniata’s engineering program with criteria set by ABET. This paper will provide an overview of the living engineering laboratory and details of some recent

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan Kathir, George Mason University

Paper ID #37759Design and Fabrication of an Accelerated CorrosionChamber for Naval ApplicationsNathan M. Kathir (Associate Professor and Director of Senior Projects) Nathan M. Kathir, Ph.D., P.E.(CO), F.ASCE Director of Senior Design (Capstone), Dept of Mechanical Eng., George Mason Univ. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comDesign and Fabrication of an Accelerated Corrosion Chamber for Naval applicationsAbstractAn improvement in capability to better manage and reduce degradation of materials in theDepartment of Navy (DON)’s

Conference Session

Teaching Methods in Mechancial Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca L Norris, University of Oklahoma; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma; M. Cengiz Altan, University of Oklahoma; J. D. Baldwin, University of Oklahoma; Wilson E Merchán-Merchán, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

competitive teams (iii) increasing the recruitment and retention of female and underrepresented students, faculty, and staff (iv) developing a more diverse set of engineering design projects (Capstone) and activities to show the broader inter-disciplinary nature of ME and, as a result, further increase student motivation and engagement in the field (v) increasing the awareness of the department as a whole of the need for an inclusive environment 3Our current departmental goals include recruiting and retaining underrepresented students andfaculty, and encouraging their active participation as stakeholders of our school. Our current goalclosely aligns with our College’s

Conference Session

Curriculum in Electrical Engineering Technology

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay Porter, Texas A&M University; Joseph Morgan, Texas A&M University; Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University; George Wright, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

entrepreneurship.1,2,3 In thissame spirit of “doing” versus “lecturing”, the Electronics and Telecommunications (EET/TET)Programs at Texas A&M University have been developing an emphasis in electronics productdesign. To this end, the curriculum has been augmented to include topics such as electronicsmanufacturing, system integration, innovation, project management, and entrepreneurship. Aninitiative to team engineering technology students with business students who understandmarketing and small business plan development has also gained substantial momentum over thepast three years.4 Finally, all students are required to participate in a capstone design sequencewhere they work in teams to develop the concept for a product and implement a fully

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Duffy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Manuel Heredia, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

(Proposal) Donn the design and development of a Clark, product which would be Senait considered an "Assistive Haileselas Technology" device. Students sie work with a specific client and identify Capstone Assistive Technology project to be accomplished in 16.499.S 16.399 S 3 Capstone Proposal Donn Business plan to fund the design & 17

Conference Session

Construction Division Technical Session 2: K-12 through Adult Learning

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert B. Austin, Bowling Green State University

Tagged Divisions

Construction Engineering

education professionals about the risks of dismissing the pedagogy model infavor of the andragogy model.MethodologySince 2016, the instructional approach for a Construction Capstone course at BGSU has followedthe active-learning principles of adult education by employing a series of surveys on students’prior experiences, interests, preferred topics, and preferred target projects to pursue in termlength project-based learning (PBL) assignments. In addition to having course length PBLassignments mimic real world conditions, the Construction Capstone class has also entailed areview of prior course work in preparation for the American Institute of Constructors’ (AIC)Associate Constructors examination. The project based assignment was designed to

Collection

2019 ASEE Zone I Conference & Workshop

Authors

A. Richard Vannozzi; Leonard Anderson

peers to bea valuable experience. Title: A Student Centered, Active Learning Approach to the Delivery of a Visiting Professional Lecture SeriesBackground:The Wentworth Capstone Experience consists of a two semester eight (8) credit multi-disciplinary project-based curriculum. The Wentworth Institute of Technology employs acooperative education model that includes two required co-op experiences. One during theSpring semester of their Junior year and one during the Fall semester of their Senior year. To“make-up” for these two required co-ops during traditional Spring/Fall semesters, Juniors andSeniors attend classes full-time in the Summers of their Junior and

Conference Session

Broadening Participation in Engineering

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marie Anne L Mundy, Texas A&M Kingsville; Sel Ozcelik, Texas A&M University Kingsville; Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; David Ramirez, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

-mentoring. Incorporation of engineering design experiences across the undergraduatecurriculum with linkages to the university’s engineering innovation laboratory for access toindustry projects contributes to increased student retention and persistence to graduation.CASCADE uses promising practices from research to create a retention program that includesintegrated curriculum, peer-mentoring, learning communities, and efforts that build innovationand creativity into the engineering curriculum. CASCADE vertically aligns 32 problem-baseddesign efforts from the first-year to senior-year (capstone) courses. Research on engineeringstudent learning communities indicates increased retention and student satisfaction with theirfirst-year experience 18, 33

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics & Structural Modeling Courses

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pramod Chaphalkar, Grand Valley State University; Shirley Fleischmann, Grand Valley State University; Janice Pawloski, Grand Valley State University; Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

University is surrounded by several autosuppliers and furniture manufacturers. Over the years, our engineering school has developed astrong partnership with the local industry. Co-op is mandatory in our undergraduate program andwe provide well trained co-op students to the industry. All of our capstone projects are sponsoredby the local industry. It is therefore imperative that we strive to keep our curricula up to date, sothat they reflect local industry’s needs and our students remain competent in the fast changingenvironment of technology and businesses. Our engineering program emphasizes teaching andapplied research. Therefore, our faculty is continuously engaged in pedagogical research and itsimplementation and it is active in disseminating the

Collection

2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Bryndol Sones

. This development culminates with (3) student research and project design in the capstone experience during the second year. Students enter the process as novices, and faculty use MCNP5/X to demonstrate fundamental interactions and to explore different scenarios that would be difficult to build experimentally. Later in the curriculum, students become licensed MCNP5/X users, and they make modifications to faculty-prepared MCNP5/X input files that support activities in the laboratory. This first year builds student confidence and demonstrates the merits and limitations of MCNP5/X. The next year begins with a two-week intensive MCNP5/X training program which includes

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Plumley, US Coast Guard Academy; Vincent Wilczynski, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

instance, students will draw on their knowledge of all courses fortheir capstone design project, including strengths of materials, thermodynamics, and machinedesign to name but a few. The presence of small design, build, and test projects in these coursesis intended to help students develop problem solving and design skills in the context of thosecourses. The portfolio provides a means for instructors of those courses to quickly see how theirclass contributes to the design goals of the program. More importantly, it allows instructors ofcore courses who may be from different departments to see the importance of their course to theMechanical Engineering program. At a small institution like the Coast Guard Academy, whereover 50% of students