West Michigan fluid power engineering and distribution company, DonaldEngineering, has been instrumental in the advancement of fluid power education. DonaldEngineering President, Mark Gauthier, has generously donated a pump test stand, a large powerunit, and is sponsoring a student capstone design project to design and manufacture a fluid powersystem to operate a tensile test apparatus. This industry support has been a great supplement tocourse learning objectives. For example, the pump test stand enables students to evaluate flowrate and temperature change in and out of the cooling unit for the hydraulic pump, which relatesto heat transfer, thermodynamics as well as fluid power topics. Proceedings of the 2023 Conference for
result, the students develop a potential solution and/or prototype considering the market and user in the engineering design process. b. Industry: Similar to a senior design capstone project, an industry-sponsored project allows underclassmen to engage early in the engineering design process. Each project has milestones that the students must complete throughout the year. There is an industry technical advisor that meets with each group, as well as a technical lead at the school to ensure deliverables are met. The advantage to this track over senior design projects is that because not all students are seniors, companies can introduce multi
elements(e.g., modality, structure, depth, breadth, etc.) were perceived to be satisfactory and results showfavor for lab-based learning over project-based learning (PBL). Finally, results indicate positiveself-reported progress in four general competency areas: design, problem-solving, © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedingscommunication, and group/teamwork. A second cohort will take the transformed gatewayexperience in the Fall of 2024 to strengthen the overall sample power, and data from the fouryears (Fall 2018-2022) preceding the transformation will be collected and analyzed incomparison to groups involved in the revised course.Key Words
CIT-E community of practice (CoP) is a group of faculty members who teach civilinfrastructure-related courses at different institutions. Currently, the CoP is supported by awebsite and a model course on Canvas. The model course is composed of 43 lessons that aregrouped into five categories: Fundamentals, Water, Energy, Transportation, and Capstone. InSpring 2021, a survey was conducted among the CIT-E CoP, which revealed that over 4,000students have been impacted by the group, and that respondents are enthusiastic about improvingtheir understanding of and pedagogical skills related to addressing issues that connectinfrastructure and social justice in the classroom [1]. This project is a direct result of that survey,and our goal is to increase
and Modeling course wereused to test the effects of utilizing non-traditional assessments and the change in studentperceptions by incorporating DEI topics.Case StudiesThis research piloted two cases of incorporating DEI topics in the classroom and one non-traditional assessment methodology. A Senior Design Project and a course in Systems Thinkingand Modeling were utilized. Each of these cases are documented.Case I: DEI In The Curriculum, Senior Design ProjectConceptAt the time this was conducted, the capstone senior design sequence was the same for allengineering students, requiring a one credit seminar, followed by a two and then a three creditsenior design course. The seminar is taken in the junior year and in it, all potential projects
as 500 miles from the site of the pyramid. The base of thepyramid is aligned with the cardinal directions accurate to 0.067 degrees. The Romans built asystem of aqueducts that supported a city of over one million, supplying over 500,000 cubic metersof water daily2. The ancients also designed and built immense ships. The Syracusia3, 180 feet inlength, had a capacity of 1940 passengers and a crew of 200. It featured a library, gymnasium andbathroom, and could carry a cargo of 1,600 to 1,800 tons. These are achievements that modernengineers would be proud to have made.But the engineers of these early projects did not have the science, mathematics, computingcapabilities or machinery to simplify these tasks. Instead, they were trained as
in Mechanical Engineering ProgramThe Mechanical Engineering program at our university is divided into four focus groups: Materialsand manufacturing (MM), Applied mechanics and design (AMD), Dynamics and control (DC),and Thermofluids engineering (TFE). Students are also required to take some General engineering(GE) and University elective (UE) courses. Courses in the MM stream are Workshop Practice,Materials Science, Engineering Materials, and Manufacturing Processes. Courses in the MMstream are Product Design, Machine Design I, Capstone Design, and Final Year Project. Examplesof sustainable engineering concepts and exercises given below are from one course each from theMM and AMD streams.Roadmap for Sustainability CurriculumChanges in
and guiding student teams through the capstone design and a translational course following capstone design. In her Director role, she works closely with the departmental leadership to manage the undergraduate program including: developing course offering plan, chairing the undergrad- uate curriculum committee, reviewing and approving course articulations for study abroad, serving as Chief Advisor, and representing the department at the college level meetings. She is also engaged with college recruiting and outreach; she coordinates three summer experiences for high school students visit- ing Bioengineering and co-coordinates a weeklong Bioengineering summer camp. She has worked with the Cancer Scholars Program
and second-order systems through heat transfer and beam vibration problems. Overall, theexperiments conducted were a success in allowing the students to achieve the ABET outcomesduring the process of the experiments. The students were able to research the engineeringtheories, and applied the theories through multiple variations of the experiment to find thedesired answers for the course.Assessment and Impact: Several aspects of what they have done in this course are reflected intheir Capstone Sr. design projects as well as projects in other courses that involve experimentalset-ups and using LabVIEW code, modeling and so on. Numerous groups use data acquisitionset-ups to capture signals to analyze their data. This course also helps them
climatechange.One of the academic climate adaptation and resilience efforts at ODU started with collaborationbetween Hampton University located in Hampton, Virginia. Initially, students from the HamptonUniversity Department of Architecture started a project in 2014 to engage with the Norfolkcommunity of Chesterfield Heights to research ways to alleviate existing flooding problems relatedto sea level rise and coastal storms. Old Dominion engineering students engaged with the effort,first as volunteers and then as capstone design students.The project kicked off with a substantial amount of community involvement, which was managedby the civic league. As a result, students were able to identify problems related to flooding, coastalerosion, and accumulation of
matter who they are, theyare not alone, and they belong in engineering if that is what they choose to study. Additionally,there will be at least two touchpoints during the semester where freshmen and upperclassstudents see each other’s work. For example, at lesson 15, freshmen will be invited to observe asenior capstone project design review of an engineering discipline of their choice. Theinteraction with seniors, only three years removed from their freshman year, are expected to beanother means to nurture belonging in those taking the first-year course.Helping students connect their personal identities to their engineering identity is one way toincrease persistence [27]. There are several opportunities within the course to highlight thebenefit
advancednature of senior capstone projects may lead to more difficulty in prototyping. A future studyshould include a series of follow-up questions for those students who gave a score of neutral orlower to better understand what factors contribute to their rating. This data will be useful inhelping instructors to better support students in prototyping these projects and to ensure teamsare extracting relevant and useful information from this process and the resulting prototype.Final student commentsIn the last open-ended question at the end of the survey, students were given the opportunity toshare what improvements they thought could be made to the Show and Tell session for futuresemesters. Of the 66 students who left a substantial comment
technologies being created and added to our everyday lives despite theongoing mere theoretical and abstract exposure of these advancements to students [3]. Suchtechnological advances can add more expenses to educational institutions that strive to integratejob market applications in a pedagogical setting to expose students to real-world applications.Many educational institutions have been developing new styles and instruction tools that could bereadily integrated into undergraduate engineering laboratories [4]. The role of the laboratory inengineering is to teach students how to extract data for a specific design, analyze a new device,and discover a new piece of information to their knowledge of the world [5]. Capstone projectsare one of the well
Biomedical Engineering at Duke University and M.S. and Ph.D. de- grees in Bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Allen’s teaching activities include coordinating the undergraduate teaching labs and co-teaching the Capstone Design sequence in the BME department at the University of Virginia, and his research interests are in the fields of computational bi- ology and bioinformatics. He is also interested in evaluating the pedagogical approaches optimal for teaching lab concepts and skills, computational modeling approaches, and professionalism within design classes. He is active within the Biomedical Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineer- ing Education and previously served on the
settings.Furthermore, we aim to inspire and assist educators and students interested in starting similaraccessibility projects. We include a step-by-step guide to help others interested in using ordeveloping accessible technology within the context of engineering education. In the latter case,development of accessible technology or contribution of new accessible features could beconfigured as a compelling student project for independent study, capstone or similar course, orused as motivating context for undergraduate research. The source for this project is free andavailable under an open source license on our GitHub repository, scribear/ScribeAR.github.io.Though it is possible to run machine models on remote servers, our experience with ScribeARhas shown
Assessment and Permitting, Array Site Analysis, Component Locations, and Site Layout. Fig 1. Solar PV Installation [15]. Fig 2. Solar PV Troubleshooting [15]. Proceedings of the 2023 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2023, American Society for Engineering Education ETD 545 Fig 3. Solar Site Analysis [15].The assessment method is a combination of knowledge test, hands-on troubleshooting scenariosof embedded faults, and final research project. This course will also prepare the students toconduct their capstone senior design (SD) projects
prepare cross-disciplinary students to develop “an intuitive understanding of the physicscontrolling the relevant observations and […] an appreciation for how these observations can beused to learn something about the earth” [23].More and more, engineering graduates are also expected to apply coding and solve complex,interdisciplinary problems. Teaching engineering design is commonly accomplished throughproject-based learning [24,25]. However, the use and benefits of development boards such asArduino are still overlooked [26]. Therefore, we also recommend that a device such as ours befurther developed and validated by students in a project-oriented capstone course. Using Arduinohas been shown to effectively teach programming and strengthen
Paper ID #38966Work in Progress: Specifications Grading in a System Modeling CourseDr. Scott F. Kiefer, York College of Pennsylvania Scott Kiefer has spent the past twenty-one years teaching mechanical engineering at four different col- leges. He started at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez in the traditional role of teaching and administering a modest graduate research program. At Trine University, a small private school in An- gola, Indiana, he focused on undergraduate education while teaching ten different courses ranging from introductory freshman courses to senior capstone. Scott also served as an advisor to
, show significant growth of cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural, and cross-boundary work needs. Some cross-disciplinary areas withparticular demand, now and for the future, are found at the intersection between engineering andthe life sciences. Engineers increasingly need competencies in life science areas that intersectwith their engineering disciplines. Engineers also must meet high-tech industry requirements ofworking cross-culturally, communicating effectively with all teams across the enterprise, andeffectively using time and project management skills. For STEM-specific roles, young engineersare required to have data science understanding, statistics knowledge, and computationalcapability especially if working with big data. In response
experience conducting evaluation and design-based research studies in complex settings including and community- based settings. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Material Agency with Summer STEM Youth Designing with Micro:bitsIntroduction and Research PurposeIn this poster, we report results related to an NSF EEC CAREER project that characterizesframing agency, defined as making decisions and learning in the process of framing designproblems. Our past studies of framing agency have relied on discourse analysis to characterizeagency in talk [1-3]. However, this analytical approach, with its focus on talk, misses muchabout the materials in the design process, and given that design is commonly cast as
industry working towards sustainability. 7. Institutions develop long-term vision on sustainability-related investments and supporting systems. 8. Development of national inter-collegiate collaborations and competitions. 9. Institutions develop a cross-campus, multidisciplinary university-based committee to promote sustainability. 10. Engineering faculty use a student- centered approach to match students’ needs/demands for sustainability with opportunities to practice via internships, capstones, or special projects. 11. Engineering departments and faculty have early required coursework in sustainability. 12. Creation of new courses and modification of existing courses to include sustainability-focused competencies (vertical and horizontal
incorporated theories on social cognitive career choices and student attrition mitigation to investigate the effectiveness of institutional interventions in increasing the retention and academic success of talented engineering students from economically disadvantaged families. She’s also involved in a project that explores the relationship between the institutional policies at UPRM and faculty and graduate students’ motivation to create good relationships between advisors and advisees.Dr. Nayda G. Santiago, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Nayda G. Santiago is professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM) where she teaches the Capstone Course in
unique in that it is one of only avery few programs in which the ARCH and ARCHE programs exist in the same school. Ourprogram focuses on professional practice of building design and construction, and the interactionof the students in the two majors is a precursor to what they will encounter upon graduation andentrance into the professions. The programs are currently structured such that students take manyof the same courses at the start of the curriculums, before dividing and concentrating on thecourses that make their majors unique. At the end of the curriculum, the students come backtogether in the capstone design course, where they act on interdisciplinary teams to arrive atsolutions for a semester-long building project. The number of ARCHE
, from first-year students in engineering projects courses tothird-, fourth-, and fifth-year students enrolled in the program’s core engineering courses (statics,circuits, materials) or senior capstone design. Classes range from engineering projects courses tocore engineering courses (statics, circuits, materials) to senior capstone design.SettingLaunched in 2014, the University of Colorado Boulder’s ABET-accredited Integrated DesignEngineering program allows undergraduate engineering students to select from among one of sixengineering areas of study (aerospace, architectural, civil, electrical, environmental, mechanical;called an emphasis) and combine that with an additional area of study outside of engineering(called a concentration). In the
techniques develops over time. Further, studies that couldprovide closer analysis and greater distinction between sources and levels of outside exposurecould help in determining which types of activities most contribute to student self-efficacy infabrication. In addition, further characterization of the differences between the effects of shorterexperiential learning activities and longer, integrative projects on student self-efficacy couldprovide further insight to engineering curriculum development. Analyzing the effects ofrequiring students to use makerspaces through these learning strategies, especially in earlycourses, on their usage of makerspaces in other contexts, such as in capstone design courses,could yield further insight to the dynamics
Paper ID #39184Exploring the Role of Mentorship in Enhancing Engineering Students’Innovation Self-EfficacyDr. Azadeh Bolhari P.E., University of Colorado Boulder Dr. Bolhari is a professor of environmental engineering in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her teaching focuses on fate and transport of contaminants and capstone design. Dr. Bolhari’s research interests explore the bound- aries of engineering and social science to understand formation of innovation self-efficacy in engineering students and evolution of resilience capacity at family
. A significant aspect of the project was to create a supportnetwork for the students that incorporated existing services provided by the university andestablished new services to aid students throughout their mentored research experience. One ofthe new services was the development and delivery of starting in the second year of the grant andcontinuing through the third year. The purpose of the workshops is to introduce students todifferent aspects of research. The first series of workshops (offered in the 2021-2022 academicyear) were mostly informational and provided initial support for undergraduate researchers. Fromthe experience of developing and hosting the first series, the style of the second series (offered inthe 2022-2023 academic
-offexperiments and sprawling engineering projects. Notably, most capstone and cornerstoneexperiences fit the definition. However, the definition does insist on hands-on activities, so it isdesigned to exclude activities that are purely computer-based.Other works have other implicit definitions of laboratory activities. Some works center the ideaof constructivism in discussing laboratories, and argue that a laboratory activity is one thatprovides rich information for constructing knowledge [11]. Others simply lament the lack ofspecificity in defining laboratory activities [12].Consequently, categorizing laboratory activities or describing universal features of laboratoryactivities is a challenge. Fesisel and Rosa attempt to describe learning objectives
Technology, and her B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Missouri- Rolla (same school, different name). At Rose-Hulman, Michelle is co-leading a project to infuse an entrepreneurial-mindset in undergraduate students’ learning, and a project to improve teaming by teaching psychological safety in engineering education curricula. Michelle also mentors undergraduate researchers to investigate the removal of stormwater pollutants in engineered wetlands. Michelle was a 2018 ExCEEd Fellow, and was recognized as the 2019 ASCE Daniel V. Terrell Awardee.Dr. Liping Liu, Lawrence Technological University Liping Liu is an associate professor in the A. Leon Linton Department of Mechanical Engineering at Lawrence
like those listed in [5] such as a lack ofreliable technology for Audio-Video link, inconsistent Wi-Fi, and use of WhatsApp applicationrather than email to name a few. I also served as an examiner to evaluate final projects for MS inComputer Science program. I also evaluated project reports for these projects and suggestedchanges to projects and reports to improve their quality. I also conducted student advising that wasboth formal and informal. This advising was sometimes as faculty teaching courses and at timesas examiner of the capstone projects. During my Fulbright grant at the host institution, because of my vast academic experience, Iwas asked to provide my services on committees at various levels. At the college level, I servedon