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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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James W. Boggs; R. Chris Williams; Kris G. Mattila; Todd Scholz

Civil and Environmental Engineering Michigan Technological University Houghton, Michigan 49931 mattila@mtu.edu (906) 487-2523 phone (906) 487-2943 fax 4 Todd Scholz, Assistant Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering Michigan Technological University Houghton, Michigan 49931 scholz@mtu.edu (906) 487-2804 phone (906) 487-2943 faxABSTRACTIn the fall semester of 2000 a student program was established at Michigan TechnologicalUniversity in which significant team projects and business elements replace part of thetraditional engineering curriculum for a project-based approach to learning. Scholarships areavailable to students who participate in the Pavement Design

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BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vish Prasad; Richard Schoephoerster; Ofer Amit; Alan Carsrud

opportunities for itsfaculty and students to participate in the academic, industrial, or clinical settings. Moreover, theprogram creates a framework that allows partners a look into the biomedical engineeringacademic program and to participate in formulating their prospective employees’ professionalpreparation.This paper will present the Biomedical Engineering Partnership Program as a case study for auniversity-lead partnership between academia, industry, and clinical medicine. It will discussprogram structure, mechanics, and other issues arising from this unique partnership. It will alsodescribe innovative joint programs that made the partnership successful: corporate andentrepreneurship options for Senior Design Project, business plan competition

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Serving the Information Needs of Engineering Technology Educators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Craft

, or purchase. These resources include pre-engineering technology and first-year engineering technology curricula, faculty development,research results related to student retention, peer mentoring, and assistance with grant-fundedproject development and evaluation. The Center also serves as a link to assist educators inidentifying useful products and services from other projects funded through the NSF's AdvancedTechnological Education (NSF/ATE) program. A cost-effective way for two-year collegeengineering technology faculty to move their programs forward is to learn about and leveragethese resources.IntroductionThe National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program has anemphasis on two-year colleges and on the

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Will; Wesley Stone

college, the senior design course was evaluated by students atthe end of each semester. The numerical scores, and especially the comments, from theevaluations were used to begin the framework for a course restructure. Additionally, abrainstorming session was held at the conclusion of the 2002-03 academic year, including eightof the faculty members involved in the course. The combination of this student and facultyfeedback led to the Summer 2003 curriculum restructure efforts. The projects themselves did not change with the restructure. Each project continues tohold significant electrical, computer, and mechanical components. Sample projects for the 2003-2004 academic years include: • A 3-D scanner that uses a laser scan to generate a

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Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Kozak

. Page 9.354.2 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”Workbook Navigation Each worksheet would perform one step of the lab solution. Navigation between theworksheets would be accomplished by the use of hyperlinks imbedded in each worksheet. Thesoftware creation exercise consisted of one lab period at which all eight students weresimultaneously in attendance. Due to the short time period, all students would be working at thesame time to complete the project. Each student was given a portion of the workbook tocomplete. One student was assigned to be the coordinator of the hyperlink aspect of

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Innovation in Continuing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Martin Cala; Jaymin Patel; Ganesh Kudav; Burke Davis

roundly. Learning outcomes of curricular innovation stemming from this partnerships includeincreased exposure to emerging technologies, multi-disciplined activities, team learning,communications, and project management [1]. There also exist many beneficial institutionaloutcomes including faculty development in research interests, improved industrial partnerships, Page 9.730.1Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationimproved aesthetic to curriculum throughout the four years, and graduate placement amongindustrial

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New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Daughton

management assignments. Local high technology companies wereconcerned that many engineers were entering management positions responsible for project ordevelopment teams or promoted to managers of small departments or work groups with littlepreparation. Ironically, these opportunities sometimes came as a reward for a job well done forengineering contributions but placed the individual in an awkward position. As Matson1 andLancaster2 have reported, and this author observed while working in industry, engineers usuallyfind themselves very poorly equipped to take on their management assignments.As the program evolved over the next 16 years, the enrollment grew to include students fromColorado, from across the United States, and from around the world. As

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Roger G. Harrison; Matthias U. Nollert; David W. Schmidtke; Vassilios I. Sikavitsas

“Introduction to Research” at Brooklyn College, studentswere required to select a research project provided by a chemistry professor (1). Then, studentswrote a rough draft of the proposal; and then, after receiving feedback from the professor, theywrote a final draft. In another course entitled “Chemistry Research” for undergraduates atYoungstown State University, the students were required to select a research proposal topic,write a rough draft of the proposal, and then write a final draft after receiving feedback from theprofessor (2). For both of these proposals, the time allotted for writing both drafts of theproposal seems unrealistically short for undergraduates (5 weeks at Brooklyn College and 2weeks at Youngstown State

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ETD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

B. Sridhara

information obtained at this conference and from several other sources theundergraduate research committee stated its mission as to promote, facilitate and showcaseundergraduate research in the sciences at MTSU. In 1994 October, our first call for researchproposals from CBAS students was sent out and grants were awarded to meritorious proposals inDecember. In 1996 it was decided to hold a college level undergraduate research symposium inthe spring of every year to showcase student research including those projects funded by theURC.II. Undergraduate Research Grant Process The URC which has one chair and eight other members normally meets twice in the fallsemester. In the first meeting we discuss the last year’s undergraduate research

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Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rita Caso; Jeff Froyd; Dimitris Lagoudas

difficult to assess. As the workby Hestenes and Halloun on the Force Concept Inventory has shown, students may pass scienceand engineering courses but still retain alternate conceptions about the topics presented in thecourses. Therefore, substantial interest in concept inventory assessment instruments for manyengineering subjects, e.g., materials, signals and systems, fluid mechanics, has been generatedand numerous projects are underway. Since smart materials are being introduced intoundergraduate engineering curricula, assessing students’ understanding of these smart materialswould be reasonable. Therefore, two new concept inventories, one on shape memory alloys andone on piezoelectric materials, are being developed as part of a Combined Research

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Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht

Session 2131 CAN PEERS BE USED EFFECTIVELY TO ASSESS TEAMS: TASK/TEAM FUNCTION OBSERVATIONS DURING TEAM BUILDING EXERCISES Robert Knecht Colorado School of MinesAbstract – This presentation describes a model used to illustrate functions that team membersassume during teambuilding exercises. The Design (EPICS) program introduces teams ofengineering students to design, technical communications and teamwork processes through anopen-ended, client-based project. Teams conduct a series of exercises in which half perform theexercise

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Mullenax

need to find out the specifics of each faculty member’s interestsand figure out where your interests and theirs overlap well.Ideally, you should talk to other members of any potential advisor’s research group beforedeciding to join. If the faculty member has no other grad students, talk to the elder grad studentsin the department and find out why. As the only grad student working for a faculty member youwon’t have to fight for time to meet with her/him, but project funding may be a liability (see infofollowing).Not only research interests but also interpersonal styles will affect the success of your workingrelationship with your research advisor. If you are a global learner who mulls over problems andthen produces a flurry of activity to come

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Trends in Construction Engineering III

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daryl Orth

Session No. 2221 Utilizing Educational Delivery Systems in a Mechanical Construction Course Daryl L. Orth, Ph. D. Purdue University Department of Building Construction Management West Lafayette, IndianaIn education, a delivery system is the organizational approach the instructor uses to deliver,organize, present, or communicate his/her instructional message or topic to the learners (Dickand Carey, 1996)1. The four most common delivery systems are non-projected media

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Topics in Mechanical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Denton; Heather Cooper

Laboratory Activity(ies) 1,2 Vibration Fundamentals (SDOF) Natural frequencies, damping in cantilever beams Forced vibration and isolation 3,4 Vibration Instrumentation – Transducer mounting effects Sensors, Meters, and Analyzers 5 Data Acquisition and Introduction to semester project Interpretation 6,7 Unbalance and Dynamic Visit to precision balancing facility for balancing demo Balancing Single and two-plane balancing 8 Vibration in Bearings Bearing vibration measurement 9,10 Vibration due to Misalignment, Laser alignment demo at

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Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Sexton

Session 2004-1840 TEACHING ENERGY SYSTEM DESIGN USING COMPUTER SIMULATION Michael R. Sexton Mechanical Engineering Department Virginia Military Institute Lexington, VirginiaAbstractThis paper describes the use of system simulation in teaching the design and optimization ofenergy systems at the undergraduate level. A case study involving the optimum design of avapor compression refrigeration system is presented. This project was selected from senior levelcourses in Energy Conversion Design

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BME Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Lalush; C. Frank Abrams; Peter Mente; Marian McCord; H. Troy Nagle; Elizabeth Loboa; Susan Blanchard

represents more than one programmatic outcome.1, 2 In addition, there maybe a great deal of variability in assignment of grades, depending on which facultymember does the grading. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that rubrics offeran excellent method for reducing faculty workload by providing a means to link gradingand assessment.3Faculty members of the Biomedical Engineering (BME) Courses and CurriculumCommittee, which is also responsible for assessment, have worked as a team to developseveral rubrics that are used by individual faculty to grade projects or other samples ofstudent work in several BME courses. Different components of the rubrics can then beemployed in various combinations to assess various programmatic outcomes

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alex See

Session number 2220 Utilizing LabVIEWTM for data acquisition and analysis for a 13 weeks undergraduate course Alex See, PhD Monash University Malaysia, School of Engineering and Science, No. 2 Jalan Kolej, Bandar Sunway, 46150, PJ, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia email: alex.see@engsci.monash.edu.my Abstract Second year Mechatronics undergraduates, in the year 2003 at Monash University Malaysia (MUM) were taking a subject module known as Project and Practise GSE2800. The concept of computer based data acquisition instrumentation was introduced to them. They had

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ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kraemer; Bijan Pashaie; David Probst

engineering flavor. Another lingering concern wasthat the Engineering Physics degree, as the only engineering program at Southeast, requiresabout 12 more credit hours than most other programs on campus, which might tend to reduce itscompetitiveness when recruiting majors. In order to address these concerns, we developed asenior capstone course that has been accepted into the University Studies Program, which isSoutheast’s liberal education program. It therefore counts both in the major and for the liberaleducation program, thus reducing the total number of hours required. The course requiresstudents from at least two departments on campus to work on a project requiring expertise fromboth disciplines. In Spring 2004, in collaboration with a faculty

Conference Session

Teaching Engineers to Teach

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Neil S. Grigg; Darrell G. Fontane; Marvin Criswell; Thomas Siller

combined Bachelor’s Degree plus 30 credits (B + 30) programincludes professional practice and management topics3. The ASCE BOK Committee added thefollowing four outcomes to the eleven “a through k” ABET outcomes4 as their way to address“what should be taught and learned” in the combined BS + MS program: (12) an ability to applyknowledge in a specialized area related to civil engineering, (13) an understanding of theelements of project management, construction, and asset management, (14) an understanding ofbusiness and public policy and administration fundamentals, and (15) an understanding of therole of the leader and leadership principles and attitudes. Although these do not specificallyaddress IT, it is very evident from their report that IT is

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Ethics & HSS in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Harper

Session 3261 The Social Consequences of Design: PBL Workshops for Undergraduate Researchers Lee Ellen Harper The University of Maryland In Summer 2003 the Institute for Systems Research (ISR), a permanent institute of theUniversity of Maryland, within the A. James Clark School of Engineering, and National ScienceFoundation Engineering Research Center, piloted two day-long workshops on “The SocialConsequences of Design: Requirements and Trade-Offs in Large-Scale Engineering Projects,”for the first 15 participants in

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Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Taryn Bayles

during the workshop: • An introduction to the broad field of engineering • Student panel discussion on what it takes to be an engineering student • Overview of the freshman Introduction to Engineering course at UMBC • High school preparation for an engineering career, including math and science • Future Scientists and Engineers of America (FSEA) program overview and competition • Tour of local engineering facilities at Northrop Grumman • Engineering faculty panel discussion on various engineering disciplines • Opportunities and rewards of an engineering career • Use of the Internet to learn about engineering • ‘Hands-on’ projects to help introduce high school students to engineering • Engineering alumni panel

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack; John Farris

Session 3625 Teaming Freshmen and Juniors Hugh Jack, John Farris Associate Professor / Associate Professor Padnos School of Engineering Grand Valley State University Grand Rapids, MI email: jackh@gvsu.edu, farrisj@gvsu.edu1. IntroductionA novel design project involving freshmen and juniors was begun in the fall of 2002. This projectinvolved teaming students in a freshman graphics and design course (EGR 101 [4]) with

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Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramana Pidaparti; Hasan Akay

assessment and graduates.Deng et al. [5] discussed the evaluation of assessment tools for outcome-based engineeringcourses for mechanical engineering program at Alabama A & M University. They adopted anapproach based Bloom’s taxonomy and is called SEAARK (Knowledge, Repetition, Application,Analysis, Evaluation and Synthesis) in reverse order. Specifically, they discussed the assessmentevaluation for data on fluid mechanics course. Schmidt and Beaman [7] discussed a department-wide major curriculum reform effort, PROCEED, an acronym for Project-Centered Education. Following ABET [1], each engineering department, the program outcomes aresummarized as educational objectives that describe the unique characteristics of that program.Similar to

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Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim White; James White; David Barnhart; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

/ Student Survey4 Design Project Intro/Payload and Chapter 11.1 1,3,7 Spacecraft Design5 Remote Sensing Chapter 11.2 17,246 Understanding Orbits: Basic Laws Chapter 4.1-2 1-3,6,10,13,15 (Kepler and Newton)7 Understanding Orbits: Restricted 2- Chapter 4.3-5 17,20,22-23,28 Body Equation of Orbital Motion and Orbital Constants ( i and h )8 Describing Orbits: Orbital Elements Chapter 5.1 1,5 Design Project: (Definition) Part I9 Describing Orbits: Orbital Elements Chapter 5.2 10,15,16

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Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kim Covington; Jeff Froyd

changing faculty) is being explored in an NSF-supported project “Changing Faculty throughLearning Communities.” The project employs four mechanisms to promote change in facultymembers: speakers, workshops, faculty learning communities (FLC), and matching grants tosupport women students. Specifically, the project aims to catalyze changes in the way facultythink about four concepts that are tightly linked to the concept of gender diversity: 1) mentalmodels, 2) development and invitation, 3) personal vision and commitment, and 4) the culture ofengineering and science. The following paper describes change mechanisms, highlighting FLC,and four changes that learning community participants report. Participants a) shifted fromsearching for external

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Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yaakov Varol; William Sparkman; Walt Johnson; Nancy LaTourrette; Jesse Adams; Jeffrey LaCombe; Gary Norris; Ellen Jacobson; Norma Velasquez-Bryant; John Kleppe; Pamela Cantrell; Eric Wang; Ted Batchman

Session 2171 First Year Engineering Experience Initiative1 E. Wang, N. Velasquez-Bryant, J. Adams, T. Batchman, P. Cantrell, E. Jacobson, W. Johnson, J. Kleppe, J. LaCombe, N. LaTourrette, G. Norris, W. Sparkman, and Y. Varol University of Nevada, RenoAbstractThis project is one of nine projects supported by the Hewlett Foundation’s Engineering Schoolsof the West Initiative. At the University of Nevada, Reno the College of Engineering and theCollege of Education are working together on the 5-year project: The First Year

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TIME 2: Laboratories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jed Lyons

Session 2166 Weigh Dr. Lyons: An Application of Problem-Based Learning Jed S. Lyons, Ph.D., P.E. Department of Mechanical Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 20208AbstractA laboratory project is described that was developed for a mechanical engineering measurementsand instrumentation course. Each student designs, constructs, calibrates and uses a strain gagebased load cell to weigh the instructor. The project takes about three weeks to complete.Besides learning how strain gages work

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joao Almeida; Guillermo Salazar

Parametric Building Model (3DPBM) is perhaps the most promisingmechanism for creating an integrated view of the project within the industry. The 3DPBMsoftware also has tremendous potential for supporting the education of future generations ofengineers. The 3DPBM is an object-oriented approach that allows the design team to develop anintegrated 3D visualization of the building by creating new ways to reason about the product ofdesign, and by introducing more efficient communication and coordination amongmultidisciplinary teams who participate through all phases of the project development.For over three years, a software grant has allowed the authors to experiment with the 3DPBMconcept through activities in courses and research at the Department of

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Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed El-Sayed; Jacqueline El-Sayed

A Complete Product Design Realization Experience Through Integrating a Computer Integrated Manufacturing Course with an Automotive Capstone Jacqueline El-Sayed, Lucy King, Mohamed El-Sayed Kettering University, Flint, Michigan 48504Abstract Engineering capstone classes are the culmination of a student’s academic experiences. Theobjective is for the student to use much of their engineering knowledge base to design a system orcomponent for a set of design requirements. This usually entails a detailed team project with the designcriteria, product drawings, analysis, parts list, product costs, discussion and conclusions. If the design isfabricated at all, it is done so in a

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dillard

the sophomore level andtwo in the junior, to introduce students to laboratory procedures and design projects13. Thefinal laboratory, an autonomous robot, is intended to be an open-ended project that preparesstudents for a senior-level capstone design course. In the lab, students use the PIC12F675microcontroller from Microchip Technology, Inc. to create an embedded systems solution14.We found that although the robot laboratory was being completed successfully, our averagestudents were not prepared for the independent thinking required in their capstone designs.To address this issue, we identified six new goals and methods for the robot laboratory. 1. Fully custom design – As much as possible, we wanted students to have complete control