Collection

2023 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Robert Michael, Gannon University; David Gee, Gannon University; Mark Keith Kurchena

include: a. Reference [1] presents the design of a low-cost 3D printer using off-the-shelf components. The printer is constructed and then used as a demo for a high school STEM outreach project. b. Reference [2] illustrates how design projects can be used to foster self-directed learning (SDL). This paper details how various course design projects are used to help students gain knowledge of high-level engineering software programs through SDL while satisfying ABET outcome 7 to “acquire new knowledge.” c. References [3 – 6] detail various senior capstone projects whereby groups of students are partnered with industry and faculty to solve large, complex engineering problems. d. Reference

Conference Session

Transitioning to an Academic Career

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Dunn

10.1357.2found in a standard book on icebreakers. I brought in the Chief Engineer of the MDOT to Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationdiscuss engineering ethics with the class. The second part covered basics on scheduling and costestimating. I emphasized that as project managers, engineers need to have a sense of scheduleand cost. Brief class exercises demonstrated how to use standard cost guides such as RS Meansand to develop small schedules using PERT diagrams. The third part consisted of developingproposals that would be used in the spring senior capstone project. The second course that I developed was

Conference Session

Trends in Biological & Agricultural Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Lacey; Ann Kenimer

Session 2003-1240 Teaming Freshmen with Seniors in Design Ann Kenimer, Ronald Lacey Associate Professors, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M UniversityIntroductionThe Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Texas A&M University offersdesign-focused courses for freshman and senior engineering students. The senior-level coursesconstitute the curriculum’s capstone design experience. Seniors work in teams of four to five on adesign project suggested by industry clients. Many of these same projects are used in the freshman

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron Carpenter, Wentworth Institute of Technology; James R McCusker PhD, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Durga Suresh, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

with an array of interdisciplinary design courses that range from introductory to capstone courses.Prof. Durga Suresh, Wentworth Institute of Technology Durga Suresh is an associate professor in the department of computer science and networking and has been teaching at WIT for over fifteen years, including courses in software engineering, databases, archi- tecture, and capstone projects. She has been involved in service-learning projects in urban Boston and has developed CS-outreach-oriented seminar classes in which college juniors and seniors develop and deploy CS curricula to middle school students. She has extensive experience with designing and teaching project based, multidisciplinary courses with collaboration

Conference Session

Service Learning in Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Patti Clayton; Steven Peretti; Lisa Bullard

skills of the discipline in the complex andturbulent context of personal, organizational, and community agendas and constraints, and 3) tomaximize the learning that can result to all parties through systematic reflection. The process-orientation of service-learning, combined with the difficulties of linkingtechnical content to the service needs of many community organizations, seems to render thispedagogy especially well-suited to introductory and capstone engineering courses, where there is Page 9.1093.2an emphasis on teamwork, communication, problem-definition, project design, and project “Proceedings of the 2004

Conference Session

Software Engineering Technical Session 2

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Alexandria Spradlin, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Thomas Rogers Bassa, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

through the life cycle they better realized what they can and what they cannot deliver. • They thought that they are better prepared to join the work force. • Number of students point to some of the issues associated with the personality conflicts between the team members. The mentors (PI, assigned staff, the two SMEs, and the two graduate students), were pleasantly surprised by what the interns were able to accomplish duding this nine weeks. The level and complexity of the project given to the team was almost close to what is assigned at the capstone project for students pursuing bachelor degree in computing field.REFERENCES[1] Degrees of Protection Provided by Enclosures (IP Code), IEC Standard 60529, 2004.[2] A. Cockburn

Conference Session

Innovation for ChE Student Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Silverstein

Education Conference, S2G-1, Reno, NV (2001)6 Newell, J.A., S.H. Farrell, R.P. Hesketh, and C.S. Slater, “Introducing Emerging Technologies in theCurriculum Through a Multidisciplinary Research Experience,” Chem. Eng. Ed., 35(4), 296 (2001)7 Glennon, Brian, “Development of Cross-Disciplinary Projects In a ChE Undergraduate Curriculum.”Chem. Eng. Ed., 38(4), 296 (2004)8 Schaeiwitz, Joseph A; Turton, Richard, “Life-Long Learning Experiences and Simulating Multi-disciplinary Teamwork Experiences through Unusual Capstone Design Projects”, Proceedings of the 2003American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, (2003)9 Bhavnani, Sushil H., and M. Dayne Aldridge, “Teamwork across Disciplinary Borders: A Bridge betweenCollege

Conference Session

Aerospace Division (AERO) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gustavo Sanchez, Purdue University; Mary E. Johnson Ph.D., Purdue University; Shantanu Gupta, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace Division (AERO)

the likelihood of system failures and their associated effects.Figure 2. PFMEA Steps.AN AVIATION SAFETY COURSE – CAPSTONE PROJECT RELATED TO FMEAThis paper aims to demonstrate how FMEA (specifically, PFMEA) may be taught in an aviationsafety course at the undergraduate and/or graduate level. and how the application of PFMEA inanalyzing HAA operations and accidents may be demonstrated to students. Therefore, within thescope of the prospective aviation safety course, this paper uses the Process Failure Modes andEffects Analysis (PFMEA) as per the SAE AS13004™ [3] standard to identify the risksassociated with HAA operations to demonstrate the PFMEA methodology with a real-worldsituation. Once the students have strengthened their theoretical

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen J. Ressler; Thomas Lenox

-lesson basis. Without exception,courses that do not use daily homework use quizzes or homework sets (called special problems) to provide anassessment after each major block of instruction (normally 3 to 5 lessons). All courses administer at least onemid-term examination and all courses except the Capstone design course have a comprehensive final exam.These examinations provide successively broader evaluations of students’ command of civil engineering subjects.All courses which include engineering design content use design projects to assess students’ ability to apply thedesign process in a given subject area (e.g., steel, concrete, drainage systems). These projects also provide ameans of evaluating creativity, communication skills, and the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohan Krishnan, University of Detroit Mercy; Shuvra Das, University of Detroit Mercy; Sandra Yost, University of Detroit Mercy; Kathleen Zimmerman-Oster, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

andactuators are being developed on a continuing basis, students will be instructed on how to adaptto the use of newly developed devices. The sensors and actuators course includes significanttreatment of new technologies such as MEMS. It also features a capstone project that requiresstudents to engage in self-directed learning about a transducer not discussed in class.(d) Increasing the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in engineering byengaging the freshmen and pre-college populations in hands-on instruction in mechatronics isfacilitated by the introduction of mechatronic-based hands-on projects at the freshman and pre-college levels. The authors have already had considerable success in developing and deliveringmechatronics

Conference Session

Assessment and Curriculum Development

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Branimir Pejcinovic, Portland State University; Melinda Holtzman, Portland State University; Andrew Greenberg, Portland State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

fix the deficiencies was not effective.While there are introductory level project-based courses in the first year, students do not haveenough technical background to make the projects technically challenging. While they may getsome teamwork experience from such courses, they usually only get very basic, if any, trainingin project management. This is why we decided to introduce our cornerstone courses in thesophomore year.We developed a two-quarter-long course sequence: one focused on design processes and anotheron project implementation [1-6]. We had two overarching goals: 1. Teach students design and project development well before senior Capstone projects. 2. Integrate various strands of electrical and computer engineering through

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University; Claire Cynthia Lehman, Bill's Robotic Solutions; Mir M. Hayder, Savannah State University

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

issues of environmental factors and tomeet the requirement of Senior/Capstone design project course, students worked in a team todesign, fabricate and test a mobile Robotic System to monitor and map data from theenvironmental sensors in a well-defined trajectory in an academic building. The EnvironmentalMonitoring Robotic System consists of Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) supported by theencoders on the Robot base to determine the location of the Robot and a Kinect@ Microsoft Inc.camera to detect objects and obstacles in the trajectory. The proposed systems also consist of theRobot Operating System (ROS) and sensor section for monitoring the environment. The ROSsection is used for mapping and localization of the mobile robot. The navigation

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Duesing; Morrie Walworth; Jim Devaprasad; Ray Adams; David McDonald

. Page 3.175.1Engineering educators across the country have responded to address the competency gaps bymaking changes to the engineering curriculum and the content of courses. A major activity inthis direction has been in the development of capstone senior design projects courses whereissues related to soft skills are addressed6. These courses serve the role of providing students asmooth transition from university to industry.Students are better prepared for the senior projects experience, if they are exposed to the softskills requirements earlier in the curriculum7,8. This could be done in the lab component of thejunior year courses. In these lab courses, an understanding of the industrial environment can beprovided to the students by

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Ajay Mahajan; David McDonald

can correctly and confidently specify and use these systemsafter graduation.The strategy to improve students’ ability and confidence with modern computer-basedinstrumentation focused on integrating the use of this equipment into several courses. The targetaudience included all electrical, mechanical, and manufacturing majors in engineering andtechnology. The implementation plan involved introducing students to the use of this equipment Page 3.183.1in fundamentals courses, and then reinforcing its use in advanced courses, independent studies,research projects and a capstone senior projects course sequence.Modern instrumentation equipment was

Conference Session

Design with External Clients

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Cross, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Dakota School of Mines and Technology revamped the designcurriculum. The design curriculum consisted of MET 351—Engineering Design I and 352—Engineering Design II for juniors and MET 464—Engineering Design III and MET 465—Engineering Design IV for seniors2. The purpose and objectives of these classes can be Page 15.904.2summarized by the following Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) self-study description3. This is a two-course sequence in Interdisciplinary Senior Capstone Design Project (ISCDP) that involves both lecture and design practice sessions. The course integrates vertically and horizontally

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kellie Schneider, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

. Asmy partnership with The Foodbank has grown, our projects are developed using a morecommunity-engaged methodology as shown in Figure 2 [2]. Using this methodology, we stillwork closely with our partners to develop our research questions, but now, our projects focusmore on the co-creation of knowledge as well as social and cultural change.Thus far, students have either participated in the projects as part of a summer research experience(community gardens) or through an Engineering Management master’s capstone project(donation collection and audit scheduling). To successfully complete the capstone project,students are expected to identify a significant problem, locate the necessary data and informationto solve the problem, and utilize the

Conference Session

Design in the Engineering Core

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii

design experienceculminated in a two-semester senior course, which is the capstone design project. The remainderof this paper details how design content was added to the first course in fluid mechanics.3. The Process of Adding Design into the CourseDescription of the course. The first course in fluid mechanics is required of all MechanicalEngineering students. It consists of a lecture and a laboratory. The lecture part is worth threesemester-credit hours and the lab component, one semester-credit hour. The lab session meets forthree consecutive hours, once a week. The program introduced design into the course by assigningopen-ended problems at the beginning of the semester. Students were required to choose a resultor concept of fluid mechanics

Conference Session

ABET and Curriculum-Level Assessments

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

evaluation of work product. Numerous authorshave outlined the assessment strategy of constructing rubrics for measuring studentachievement of learning outcomes and applying them to portfolios of student work.Other authors have outlined use of rubrics for evaluation and grading of individualassignments and projects. This paper will describe the use of a consolidated rubric forevaluating final reports in the capstone Chemical Plant Design course. Instead of gradingeach report and then having some or all of the reports evaluated through a separateprocess for programmatic assessment purposes, the instructor evaluates the report onceusing the rubric, and the same raw data is used both for grading and for programmaticassessment.BackgroundSince 2000, ABET1

Conference Session

Student Learning and Teamwork

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlie Edmonson, University of Dayton; Donna Summers, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

team projects. Thisteam project experience is culminated in the interdisciplinary capstone course, SeniorProject, XXX-490, where teams of students complete a project with industry. How eachof these courses teach and apply teamwork, leadership training, and team projects aredescribed below.First Year CoursesTwo courses taken by students in their first year involve working in teams. SET-100,First Year Seminar, is required by all students in the first semester of their first year.Besides team dynamics, topics such as academic policies, academic planning, registrationprocedures, and counseling and career placement services are discussed. Professionalethics, critical thinking and communications, and are also discussed.Following an introduction to

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leslie Brunell

project, gaining first hand experience with the regulationsand the appropriate software tools has proven to be invaluable to our graduates. With the varietyof projects presently being sponsored, the students are also gaining a familiarity with thedifferent regulatory agencies they will be accountable to upon graduation.Recruitment of Sponsors:Initially discussed and supported by the Civil Engineering Visiting Committee, the first twosponsors, members of the advisory committee, were familiar with the capstone designrequirements of ABET 2000. These two companies, Schiavone Construction and LGA, beganby providing the students with very exciting real world projects and exposing them to the manyoutside factors essential to any design.Upon successful

Conference Session

Sustainable Education and the Environment

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine Scott, Seattle Pacific University; John Lindberg, Seattle Pacific University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

, II, and III in Table 1.)They include a common core of 35 credits that provides a foundation in the liberal arts and anexploratory curriculum that includes 40 credits in the Arts and Humanities (10 credits), SocialSciences (10 credits), Natural Sciences (15 credits, including both biological science andphysical science courses) and Math (5 credits).General Engineering Core RequirementsThe general engineering core requirements are common to all concentrations and includemathematics, chemistry, physics, programming, probability and statistics, circuits, junior leveldesign, internship courses, and the senior design and capstone project. A listing of theserequirements is shown in Table 2 along with related learning outcomes from Table 1. Ten

Conference Session

ECCD Technical Session 5: Energy and Wind and Design

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Maher Shehadi, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

systems to reject heat from therefrigerant to the outdoor air and to help in liquefying the refrigerant as it passes through itstubes. Reducing the surrounding air temperature or the surface temperature for the condenserwould help in eliminating an additional source of heat into the refrigerant and lower thetemperature of air surrounding the condensers which would enhance the air-conditioning systemperformance.A capstone project in the School of Engineering Technology at Purdue University conducted anexperimental and analytical study to investigate the performance of a 3 ton-refrigerant (TR) air-conditioning unit, installed in a residential house, while shading its condenser. The surfacetemperature of the tubes exiting the condenser were measured

Conference Session

Relevance of and Models for Community Engagement in Engineering Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan McCahan, University of Toronto; Holly K. Ault, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Edmund Tsang, Western Michigan University; Mark R. Henderson, Arizona State University, Polytechnic; Spencer P. Magleby, Brigham Young University; Annie Soisson, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

goals.Courses or experiences in quadrant 3 could best be described as traditional technical engineeringcourses. There are few or no social or cultural learning goals. The service may provide somecontext for the technical learning, but there are no planned learning outcomes in thesocial/cultural domain.Most engineering service learning programs would then be situated in quadrant 4. At a freshmanlevel the learning goals on both axes may be modest. However, in a capstone type project or amulti-year project we would expect substantial learning to take place in both dimensions. Ideallythe program would be planned to have deliverables, learning outcomes, reflection andcommunity engagement that supports substantial learning in dimensions 11 and 12

Conference Session

Energy Conversion and Conservation Technical Session 1: Innovative Approaches to Teaching Energy-Related Concepts

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Mativo, University of Georgia; Jacob Lancaster, University of Georgia

configurations made toimprove air flow is presented. The perspectives for students and faculty from the University ofGeorgia are presented. The student main engineer took the lead to formulate this paper. Fiveother students that worked on the project were unable to engage in writing the paper.Introduction The Formula SAE activities at the University of Georgia are recognized as a platform thatprovides experiential learning to its undergraduate students. Most of the students in the FormulaSAE program come from engineering disciplines. Students range from Freshmen to Seniors.Freshmen, Sophomores, and Juniors participate as non-capstone members. Senior studentsmostly participate as cap-stone members. Regardless of one’s category, the students design

Conference Session

Online Programs and Program Assessment

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gonca Altuger-Genc, State University of New York, Farmingdale; Bahar Zoghi, State University of New York, Farmingdale

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Objectives [5]. Course assessment is also avery important first step towards ABET program assessment activities. Many educators reportedon the practices, strategies and tools they employed when assessing course learning outcomes.Meyer [6] reported on evaluation instrument selection and use of static versus dynamicthresholds in computer engineering courses. Sanders et.al [7] reported on assessment processesfor interdisciplinary capstone projects. Beyerlein et. Al [8] developed a framework to createefficient assessment instruments that can be used to assess capstone design courses. Rowe et al.[9] highlighted the importance of assessment at the freshman level, and reported on innovativeformative assessment used in a freshman level course with a focus

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheila Horan

Session 3125 Introducing Circuit Design in Freshmen Lab Sheila Horan New Mexico State UniversityAbstractThe electrical and computer engineering curriculum at the Klipsch School of Electrical andComputer Engineering at New Mexico State University now requires that students successfullycomplete a capstone design class (senior design project) before they can graduate. To reach thispoint, students need guidance and practice in design. If students are exposed to design early intheir educations, then the capstone project won’t seem like such an insurmountable chore

Conference Session

ECE Lab Development and Innovations

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hazem Refai; James Sluss

principles and to expose students to research tools that can be used in carrying out their capstone research projects. Through a series of sequential laboratory modules, students learn to setup and configure simple to complex computer networks and to effectively employ commercial software tools for network design and performance analysis. Near the end of the course, working independently, each student is required to complete a final project that assimilates much of the reinforced and/or newly acquired knowledge and skills. This paper provides a detailed description of the laboratory course and its key project modules.1. IntroductionThe University of Oklahoma - Tulsa offers a Master of Science in

Conference Session

Student Learning and Assessment I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Wroblewski, Boston University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

factors of real-life applications.This approach is vital for reinforcing basic principles (Newton’s Laws in Mechanics, First andSecond Laws in Thermodynamics, etc.). But, by itself, it ignores the interconnectivity of theseconcepts and how they are interwoven in the fabric of real engineering problems—i.e., system-level engineering. This big-picture view is often covered in capstone design courses, butcapstone design projects themselves cover a broad spectrum of applications, and don’t guaranteethat all students leave with the same exposure to system-level integration and interactions.In addition, the development of engineering science core concepts relies upon pre-requisite pathsthat allow advanced topics to be built upon more basic concepts

Conference Session

Laboratory Applications of Computers

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Rafiq Muqri, DeVry University, Pomona; Shih Ek Chng, DeVry University, Pomona

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

deprived of the opportunity to take background courses such as 2D-signal processing,computer communications, radiography, and sensors and instrumentation. Compare to traditionalelectrical engineering students, the lack of hands-on lab experience becomes more apparentwhen students are working on capstone senior projects.One strategy we used to solve this issue was to include a mixed capstone project groupcomprising of computer, electronic, and biomedical engineering students. This strategy workedfor few groups but the success rate was less than thirty five percent due to the students’ lack ofpreparation and disadvantage of knowledge compared to traditional electrical engineeringstudents.To rectify this situation we proposed and developed this

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Lynne Slivovsky; William Oakes

Session 2525 Evaluating Multidisciplinary Design Teams Lynne Slivovsky, William Oakes, Leah Jamieson Purdue UniversityAbstract Many program look for ways to simulate “real” design experiences. At PurdueUniversity, the EPICS - Engineering Projects in Community Service – program does thisthrough long-term team projects that solve technology-based problems for local communityservice organizations. The program currently has 24 project teams with approximately 450students participating during the 2002 academic year. Each EPICS project team consists of tento 20 students, a local