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Conference Session
Impact of COVID-19 on Design Education 2
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
C. Richard Compeau Jr, Texas State University; Austin Talley P.E., Texas State University
Tagged Divisions
Design in Engineering Education
Paper ID #32695Work in Progress: Senior Design Day During a Pandemic: Virtually theSame as In-person?Dr. C. Richard Compeau Jr, Texas State University C. Richard Compeau Jr. is a Professor of Practice in the Ingram School of Engineering, and the Electrical Engineering Academic Program Coordinator. He is interested in teaching and curriculum development. His work is typically project-specific for the EE Capstone courses, with an emphasis on applied electro- magnetics.Dr. Austin Talley P.E., Texas State University Dr. Austin Talley is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Ingram School of Engineering at Texas
Conference Session
Graduate Education and Undergraduate Research in ET
Collection
2007 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jerry Visser, South Dakota State University; Kurt Rosentrater, USDA-ARS
Tagged Divisions
Engineering Technology
Capstone Courses, Journal of Engineering Education, January 1997, p 17-28.8. Prince, Michael, Does Active Learning Work? A Review of the Research, Journal of Engineering Education, July 2004, p. 223-231. Page 12.1146.89. Dally, J. W. and Zhang, G. M., A Freshman Engineering Design Course, Journal of Engineering Education, v 82, n 2, April 1993, p 83-91.10 Farr, John V., Lee, Marc A., Metro, Richard A., and Sutton, James P., Using a Systematic Engineering Design Process to Conduct Undergraduate Engineering Management Capstone Project, Journal of Engineering Education, April 2001, p 193-197.11. CED date
Conference Session
Make It!
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Arlynn Baker; Chip W. Ferguson, Western Carolina University
Tagged Divisions
Manufacturing
had previously performed an extensive search for areplacement valve plug, but was unsuccessful. While the project’s scope was not appropriate fora senior capstone project, a good fit was found in the introductory 3D constraint-based modelingcourse. Working through an Honor’s Contract, the primary author reverse engineered andprototyped the value plug using precision measuring tools, a 3D modeling software, and thedepartment’s Maker Space.2 Figure 1: Steam Locomotive Valve PlugThe initial step in the process was to acquire precise measurements of the original part’sdimensions using a digital caliper. The primary author investigated precise measurementmethods and was careful to employee these methods when measuring
Conference Session
Writers, Experts, and the Workforce in Civil Engineering
Collection
2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Cara N. Morton P.E, Washington State University; Anna Karin Roo, Washington State University
Tagged Divisions
Civil Engineering
.Bean, J. C. (2011). Engaging ideas: The professor’s guide to integrating writing critical thinking and active learning in the classroom. (2nd ed.) Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons.Blicblau, A. S., & Dini, K. (2012). Intervention in engineering students’ final year capstone research projects to enhance their written, oral and presentation skills. . International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy, 2(3), 11-18.Bodnar, C. A., Kadlowec, J. A. (2018). Initial validation of a technical writing rubric for engineering design. International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy, 8(1), 81-91.Budinski, K. G. (2001). Engineer’s guide to technical writing. Materials Park, OH: ASM International.Cho, Y. & Choi, I
Conference Session
Design in BME Education
Collection
2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Nur Ozaltin, University of Pittsburgh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Larry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh
Tagged Divisions
Biomedical
’ design; and to date, very little work has focused on the process variables and factorsthat potentially influence innovation. This work attempts to investigate such influencers.Data CollectionWe collected data from both senior bioengineering students in their capstone courses, as well asdata about their final prototypes from the faculty instructors. Further, we collected informationfrom experts and practitioners in bioengineering design as input to this study.1. Data Collection From StudentsWe collected data from bioengineering students’ senior capstone projects during the 2007-08 and2008-09 academic years. For this research, we had 26 teams from two institutions thatparticipated in our study. The teams varied from three to five students. For
Collection
1999 Annual Conference
Authors
Michael J. Hinton; Charles N. Eastlake
author, with the aid of students from capstone design classes at ERAU,designed and constructed a 1/3-scale replica 172 as the flying test-bed from which a series offuture scaled prototype projects will draw vital conceptual and procedural ideas. The model172 will be flown by remote control and will have an array of on-board sensors to collectinformation about key flight characteristics. Along with the on-board data acquisition systemand real-time display ground base, the craft will also have a real-time video/audio link to theground to allow the pilot to fly maneuvers using visual flight cues comparable to those hewould have in the real plane.IntroductionA new aircraft often spends many years progressing through the stages of conceptual
Collection
2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference
Authors
Abu S.M. Masud; Don E. Malzahn
deficiencies areremedied by revision of the curriculum or course contents, development/reorganization oflaboratory or other facilities, and reallocation of financial resources. The tools used forassessment and their efficacy in assessing the outcomes are discussed in the next section.The main instrument by which the program can ensure the achievement of desiredoutcomes is the curriculum. Appropriate faculty, facilities, and financial resources arethe accessories required to ensure effective impartation of knowledge, skills, andexperience as intended in the curriculum. Inclusion of industry-based projects and planttours in courses and industry-based capstone projects in the curriculum are the means bywhich the ‘Metropolitan Advantage’ of WSU is used to
Conference Session
Professional Development for Pre-Service and In-Service Teachers
Collection
2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Sylvia W. Thomas, University of South Florida; Scott W. Campbell, University of South Florida; Manopriya Devisetty Subramanyam, University of South Florida; Cheryl R. Ellerbrock, University of South Florida
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Pre-College Engineering Education
the College of Arts and Sciences. Over the course of this grant, he advised over 500 individual calculus students on their course projects. He was given an Outstanding Advising Award by USF and has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards at the department, college, university (Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teaching Award) and state (TIP award) levels. Scott is also a co-PI of a Helios-funded Middle School Residency Program for Science and Math (for which he teaches the capstone course) and is on the leadership committee for an NSF IUSE grant to transform STEM Education at USF. His research is in the areas of solution thermodynamics and environmental monitoring and modeling.Ms. Manopriya Devisetty Subramanyam
Conference Session
Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session
Collection
2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kathryn Elizabeth Shroyer, University of Washington; Timothy Sun, University of Washington
Tagged Divisions
Design in Engineering Education
are resource-intensive and often a one-time intervention.The growth of academic makerspaces has provided an opportunity to infuse more hands-ondesign learning experiences throughout students’ education. These spaces also offer resources tostudents outside of engineering majors and make room for more interest driven learning thanmore formal design courses. While academic makerspaces are seen as a place for students toengage in design practice, how much explicit support do these spaces provide for designlearning? Many students use makerspaces as a means to engage in fabrication work for courses,such as senior capstone design courses, that formally teach and scaffold design for students.How do students engaging in interest driven fabrication
Conference Session
Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 1
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Runing Zhang P.E., Metropolitan State University of Denver; Aaron Brown, Metropolitan State University of Denver; Jeno Balogh, Metropolitan State University of Denver
Tagged Divisions
Systems Engineering
Paper ID #14204Baccalaureate Program of Sustainable System Engineering – Objectives andCurriculum DevelopmentDr. Runing Zhang, Metropolitan State University of DenverMr. Aaron Brown, Metropolitan State University of Denver Aaron Brown is an associate professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver in the Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology. His work is primarily focused in the realm of appropriate design and humanitarian engineering. He has worked on development projects all over the globe but his most recent humanitarian engineering project is focused locally in Denver where he is implementing the installation
Conference Session
Innovation in Continuing Education
Collection
2004 Annual Conference
Authors
Martin Cala; Jaymin Patel; Ganesh Kudav; Burke Davis
), which exposes engineering students to real world undergraduate consultingopportunities in the community [3, 4, 5, 6]. This aspect of the project meets the intellectual meritand the broader impacts criteria.3. MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS OF ENGAGEMENT The Parker Hannifin Hydraulics Research and Education Center at Youngstown StateUniversity is a prime example of integrating an industry-sponsored program with curricularinnovation. This center, described below, provides the opportunity to design and develop multi-disciplinary experiments, and creates project opportunities for students both in the laboratory andin the field. Furthermore, it sets the framework for proposed experimentation capstone courses,improves the “demonstrations” in the
Conference Session
New Program/Course Success Stories
Collection
2004 Annual Conference
Authors
William Daughton
and Exposition Copyright  2002 American Society for Engineering EducationCurriculumThe program curriculum through 2003 with individual course titles is illustrated in Table 1. Thecurriculum is divided into three focused tracks. These tracks are in quality and processmanagement, R&D management, and operations management. Students are required to selectone of the three core curriculum track options when they begin their course of study. Threetechnical electives and a final capstone research project are also required to complete the degree Table 1. Program Curriculum Core Technical Management Curriculum (18
Collection
2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference
Authors
Sanjay Tewari
student senior capstone design experience and expoe them toprofessional experience. One way to incorporate professional experience in the senior design isto invite civil engineering companies to be a part of it and use their real-world projects. Theseprojects and the related data usually require some editing to withheld some of the informationthat is usually released in a controlled and chronological manner to simulate about the sameexperience that professional civil engineers experienced dealing with their clients. Students canbe divided in teams and each team could be mades of students who have taken electives fromvarious sub-fields of civil and architecutural engineering such as – structure, foundation,transportation, environmental, water
Conference Session
Learning to Communicate with Engineers and Non-Engineers
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Laura Wilson, University of CIncinnati; Teresa Cook, University of Cincinnati; Jo Ann Thompson, University of Cincinnati; James Everly, University of Cincinnati
Tagged Divisions
Liberal Education
Technology (ECET) department, with at least half of the graded weight comingfrom humanities components.5 The major project for this junior capstone was designed toweave together all of the concepts learned in the first two years of the engineering program(including both humanities and engineering courses). Assignments included an annotatedbibliography, a proposal, an oral presentation, and a project poster board.5 By strengtheningthis relationship and introducing a writing component into the engineering courses from anearly onset, it is believed that the students’ attitudes about and relationships with their ownwriting will improve, as has been suggested by the results of other studies.6Putting a heavy emphasis on humanities components in technical
Conference Session
Broadening Participation through Access, Equity, Inclusion in ECE
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Praveen Meduri, California State University, Sacramento; Mohammed Eltayeb, California State University, Sacramento; Milica Markovic, California State University, Sacramento
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)
Engineering and Computer Science, theOffice of Undergraduate Studies at Sacramento State, and by NSF grant (DUE # 2235774).IntroductionEngineering curricula characteristically have long and highly regimented chains of pre-requisitecourses called ‘critical paths’, that span the entire curriculum from students’ freshmen year tosenior-year capstone projects. Critical-path courses can create significant obstacles to graduationas a single DFW (grade of D, F, or withdrawal) grade in any course can impede a student'sability to graduate on time. Reducing course fail rates along the critical path significantly reducesthe students’ time to degree. Furthermore, research shows that students exposed to engineeringdesign [1] and research experiences [2] have a
Conference Session
Mechanical Engineering: Adjusting Course Content
Collection
2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Scott Kiefer, York College of Pennsylvania
based learning as partof the curriculum. From the first year introductory engineering course to senior capstone,design/build/test projects and hands on lab experiences have always played an integral part in thecourse curriculum [1]. However, during the ABET assessment retreats of 2012 and 2013, apossible area of improvement was identified. During the retreat, employer surveys from co-opsupervisors [2] and surveys from recent alumni [3] were evaluated. The surveys identified thatsome students lacked a complete understanding of machining methods and how they influenceengineering design. In addition, students were not always able to demonstrate how machiningtolerances should be correctly applied to insure quality and reduce production cost
Conference Session
Design Experiences in Energy Education
Collection
2004 Annual Conference
Authors
Shana Craft; David Click; P. Paxton Marshall
domestic hot water and space heating using a radiant floor. There is also a stone-linedsunroom for collecting and storing solar energy, and adjustable louvers over the extensive south-facing glazing to regulate incoming solar radiation. Data logging, control and user interface areintegrated by a LabVIEW-based automation system. The house continues to serve as alaboratory for multidisciplinary capstone design team projects. The project, which allows students to learn energy concepts in an integrated realisticsetting, provides numerous benefits for engineering students that are often lacking in standardengineering instruction, and that are being emphasized by the new ABET EC 2000 criteria. Itintroduces them to holistic systems thinking—that
Conference Session
First-Year Design Experiences
Collection
2005 Annual Conference
Authors
Benjamin Kidd; P. Paxton Marshall
a structured approach to the design process,while allowing the students an opportunity to achieve a substantial and rewarding endproduct. The aim is to provide open-ended projects that develop students’ engineeringskills and also allow them to see more directly the connections between engineering andthe larger society around them. Collaborations with fine arts departments provideengineering students the opportunities to address social issues, while developingcreativity and technical skills. This paper describes a collaboration with the Dramadepartment to create special effects for student-written and directed plays.Introduction Engineering is fun. Well, at least it’s supposed to be. Unfortunately, many first-year engineering
Collection
1999 Annual Conference
Authors
James Pearson
of the working prototype and the presentation of all documentation andmarketing elements. Team interaction in the course has been effective thoughsometimes frustrating to the student. Student response to the course has been positive.The course has provided a good preparation for the full-year senior design project. Thepaper also discusses creativity issues, the use of computer tools, the application ofreliability factors, student evaluation techniques, and some of the product designs.“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” PlutarchI. IntroductionThe engineering faculty at John Brown University began discussing a junior-leveldesign laboratory in 1990. Students were spending extensive amounts of creative timein the
Conference Session
Enhancing CE Learning Through Use of Technology
Collection
2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Mohammad Alhassan, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne; James Welch, Indiana-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW)
Tagged Divisions
Civil Engineering
packages available to professionals.Allowing students to learn the software step by step (modeling, analysis, and design) in asequential approach through successive interrelated core and elective courses (StructuralAnalysis, Reinforced Concrete Design, and Steel Design), supplies the students with thefundamentals needed to tackle large projects on their own. This paper illuminates the variouslearning projects that were given to the students in the courses mentioned above. The papercontinues with a demonstration to a practical application as civil engineering students usedSAP2000 to design a pedestrian bridge for the required capstone senior design course. Theproject allowed the students to further explore the various design capabilities of SAP2000
Conference Session
NSF Grantees Poster Session
Collection
2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Pong P. Chu, Cleveland State University; Chansu Yu, Cleveland State University; Karla R Hamlen, Cleveland State University
Tagged Topics
NSF Grantees Poster Session
four levels:  Level 1: Freshman engineering.  Level 2: Basic digital system.  Level 3: Advanced digital system without a processor.  Level 4: Advanced digital system with a processor.  Level 5: Capstone projects. The level 1 is for freshman engineering students. Many schools now have an “introductionto engineering’’ course for the new engineering students. It is usually a project-oriented courseto introduce the basic engineering concepts and practices. The level 2 corresponds to the first digital system course in the curriculum, which covers thecombinational circuits, sequential circuits, and FSM 17. Unlike the first digital system course, there is no single “standard” follow-up course. Theadvanced topics
Conference Session
Developing Quality Experiences that Retain Diverse Engineering Talent
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Rocio Alba-Flores, Georgia Southern University; Fernando Rios-Gutierrez, Georgia Southern University
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Minorities in Engineering
best be met by exploiting multidisciplinaryapproaches. Our Senior Capstone Design Course has been established to demonstrate the valueand ingenuity which can be derived from cooperative design efforts among traditionalengineering disciplines.The projects for the senior design program are suggested by the faculty, industry, and academicundergraduate research through engineering grant contests. The requirements are that the projectbe open-ended, multidisciplinary, and have non-engineering constraints (e.g., economic,environmental, aesthetic). The students are given a choice of 10 to 15 projects (depending uponclass enrollment) and write a proposal stating their top choice. The senior design faculty teamassigns two to three students to each
Conference Session
International Engineering Education II
Collection
2006 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley State College; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy
Tagged Divisions
International
enjoyable topic for many students. Typically, the study of robotics has beenlimited to graduate level courses at big universities. In the last few years, the advent of smaller,less expensive robots has made it possible for smaller institutions to afford integrating robotics intheir undergraduate computer science and engineering curriculum.Over the years, robots have been used to teach computer science and engineering. Computerscience and engineering departments use robots in various ways: • Using robots in Introductory computer science education • An Introduction to Robotic Course • Using Robotics in Artificial Intelligence Course • Senior Capstone Design Project Course
Collection
2000 Annual Conference
Authors
John Duffy; Edmund Tsang; Susan M. Lord
were introduction to engineering design courseswhile the senior courses were about half capstone design courses and half traditional engineeringcourses such as “Vibration Analysis” or “Urban Transportation Planning”. We suspect that theremay still be many unreported capstone design projects geared toward community service.Whether they have all the recommended aspects of service-learning such as community-definedneeds, reciprocity, and reflection is unknown.Our survey results show that service-learning is being used in a variety of engineeringdisciplines, with engineering students at all levels, in large and small classes, and usuallyincorporated more than one semester in a given course. However, twelve of the respondentsindicated that they had
Conference Session
Multidisciplinary Technical Session
Collection
2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Maher E. Rizkalla, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, Integrated Nanosystems Development Institute; Mangilal Agarwal, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis ; Sudhir Shrestha, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Kody Varahramyan, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis
Tagged Divisions
Multidisciplinary Engineering
Electron Devices Letter)The term papers also included end of the semester poster presentation in a formal poster session.The poster session had a great impact on all students and faculty. Faculty members from bothscience and engineering schools attended the session and discussed the outcomes of the students’term paper and understanding of the topic.3. Educational ElementsThis program will enhance team work, multidisciplinary activities, new teaching methodology,research based learning, and integration of knowledge through:Team Work Projects: Team work projects are included in the capstone senior design. In thenanotechnology track a mix from ME and ECE students may pursue the same project innanotechnology.Multidisciplinary Activities: The new track
Conference Session
INDUSTRY DAY SESSION: CMC PANEL SESSION ONE
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Deborah A. Trytten, University of Oklahoma; Rui Pan, University of Oklahoma; Cindy E Foor, University of Oklahoma; Randa L. Shehab, University of Oklahoma; Susan E. Walden, University of Oklahoma
Tagged Topics
Corporate Member Council, Diversity
participated on a subsystem team andshadowed the project manager to prepare herself for the role she wanted in her senior year. Atthe end of her junior year, just before the competition, Alice took over some managerialresponsibilities when the previous project manager proved inept. She began actively recruitingmajors from discipline A to assure that the team would have a sufficient number of seniors fromdiscipline A in her senior year to be able to use CTA as a capstone experience. In the end, theleadership of CTA was populated by Alice’s close friends from discipline A.CTA leadership positions in Alice’s senior year were settled in the back room. Alice successfullynegotiated for the project manager position by convincing her male competitor for the
Conference Session
Design Pedagogy and Curriculum 1
Collection
2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
William A Kline, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Cory A. Hixson, Virginia Tech; Thomas W. Mason, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Patricia Brackin, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Robert M. Bunch, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Kay C Dee, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Glen A. Livesay, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Tagged Divisions
Design in Engineering Education
design processhas been the subject of many studies of how best to teach the concepts, tools, andprocesses11,20,22,25,29,32,40,42,54,60. In a comprehensive review of design teaching and learning, Dymet al. note that designing “effective solutions to meet social needs”(22 p.103) is a fundamental skillfor engineering graduates and that “design thinking is complex” (22 p.103). The process of design isoften taught in a “crawl, walk, run” approach by introducing fundamental concepts that areapplied in a number of project based learning (PBL) experiences of increasing complexitythroughout the curriculum43. These experiences may range from reverse engineering exercises19,small design projects, to capstone design experiences20,43 with a corporate
Conference Session
Faculty Development Division (FDD) Technical Session 8
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
John Cribbs, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Hariharan Naganathan, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Christopher O'Neil, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Michael J D'Agostino, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Tagged Divisions
Faculty Development Division (FDD)
the modern construction industry's increasing demand fortechnology-related expertise to manage construction projects. Construction companies aremoving towards managing projects through immersive technologies, Artificial Intelligence, anddigital twin technologies. Specifically, after COVID, these technologies helped the industry tohandle projects from different locations. Hence, the new concentration aims to provide a trackfor the students of CM to learn and utilize these technologies in the classroom and environmentand implement their skills during their co-ops and full-time opportunities. The VDCconcentration will include 15 credits of courses, including 2 CM required courses, 2 CMelectives, and 1 Capstone project course.The new
Conference Session
Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Technical Session 13
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Cecelia Kinane, University of Michigan; Kaitlin Tyler PhD, ANSYS, Inc.; Alan Taub; Abdon Pena-Francesch
Tagged Divisions
Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)
, working on teams, and experiential learning. First year engineering students areexposed to these skills early on through an introductory engineering course, simulating a real-world engineering environment through team projects. These skills are built upon throughout thecurriculum, particularly in required laboratory courses. In MSE, senior students take twosemesters on engineering design as a core major requirement. The first senior capstone designcourse, “Sustainable Materials Design”, has been restructured to focus on the economic,environmental, and social impact of engineering materials and processes through semester-longteam projects. The objectives of the Sustainable Materials Design course are: 1. Identify and compare approaches to
Conference Session
Digital and Embedded System Design
Collection
2007 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Clint Kohl, Cedarville University; Keith Shomper, Cedarville University
Tagged Divisions
Electrical and Computer
concludes with some lessons learned through the Senior Design Capstone experiencefrom which this multi-threaded software was designed, written, debugged, revised and releasedfor experimentation in DLD. CedarLogic's 10,000+ lines of code is written in C++ and utilizesthe wxWidgets GUI library and OpenGL to render the graphics. CedarLogic can be freelydownloaded at http://sourceforge.net/projects/cedarlogic .Background and NeedDigital Logic Design is a foundational course for many engineering and computer sciencestudents. The first author has been teaching a freshman level Digital Logic Design course forover twelve years. The course includes laboratory projects in which students physically wire upTTL gates on a breadboard, use the CedarLogic software