Engineering and Computer Science in the School of Engineering at the University of Portland (Portland, OR). He has been on the faculty since 1989 and was department chair between 1990 and 1996. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1983. Dr. Inan has co-authored two textbooks in electromagnetics. His research interests include Electromagnetics, Electric Circuits and Signals and Systems. Page 22.548.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Electrical Engineering Student Senior Capstone Project: A MOSIS Fast Fourier Transform Processor Chip-Set
following course description alsoprovides some insight to the multi-disciplinary aspects of Engr 410. Course Description from Curriculum Handbook: Engr 410. Engineering Systems Design. 3(1). Application of the core disciplines to the overall systems analysis and design process in a capstone engineering design environment. Includes introduction and application of the Air Force systems acquisition process to completing a design project. Projects require attention to the engineering technical details of systems design as well as the Page 7.1127.2 economic, management, and social aspects of the process
AC 2011-705: MULTIPLAYER ON-LINE ROLE PLAYING GAME STYLEGRADING IN A PROJECT BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TECH-NOLOGY CAPSTONE COURSEJames N. Long, Oregon Institute of Technology James Long is an associate professor in software engineering technology. Courses and interest are Soft- ware Engineering Project Course, Computer Networks, Operating Systems, Embedded Systems and ap- plications. James is the program director for the Embedded Systems Engineering Technology program.Linda Sue Young, Oregon Institute of Technology Professor Linda S. Young has taught at the Oregon Institute of Technology since 1983. She earned her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Washington in 1997, and has a master’s degree
Paper ID #33158Relating Senior Project Time on Task to Student ScoresDr. Jeunghwan Choi, Central Washington University John(Jeunghwan) Choi is a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Technology program at Central Washington University. John teaches upper division courses including the Senior capstone course.Prof. Charles Pringle, Central Washington University Charles Pringle is a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Technology program at Central Washington University. Charles teaches upper division courses including the senior capstone course. American c Society
Paper ID #34751Integration of Two Unique Senior Design Projects to Engineering TechnologyDr. Reg Pecen, Sam Houston State University Dr. Reg Pecen is currently a Quanta Endowed Professor of the Department of Engineering Technology at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. Dr. Pecen was formerly a professor and program chairs of Electrical Engineering Technology and Graduate (MS and Doctoral) Programs in the Depart- ment of Technology at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI). Dr. Pecen served as 2nd President and Professor at North American University in Houston, TX from July 2012 through December 2016. He also
, Middle Tennessee State University Mr. Taylor is the director of the machine tool technology in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies at Middle Tennessee State University. He received his B. S. degree in Industrial Studies and M. S. degree in Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies from Middle Tennessee State University. Mr. Taylor teaches basic and advanced machine tool technology classes and helps the undergraduate students with their experimental vehicles project. He is well versed with the operation and maintenance of CNC and rapid prototyping machines. Page
AC 2007-2479: THE EFFECT OF SUB-CONTRACTING ON CONSTRUCTIONTIME FOR COMMERCIAL PROJECTS IN CHENNAI, INDIAI. Choudhury, Texas A&M University IFTE CHOUDHURY Ifte Choudhury is an Associate Professor in the Department of Construction Science at Texas A&M University. Dr. Choudhury has extensive experience as a consulting architect working on projects funded by the World Bank. His areas of emphasis include housing, alternative technology, issues related to international construction, and construction education. He is also a Fulbright scholar.Tharuna Khilathi, Texas A&M University THARUNA KHILATHI Tharuna Khilathi is an architect and a constructor by profession. She obtained a
must demonstrate that their students attain…an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams.”1 This requirement can be met in a numberof ways, including a structured simulated experience or by an actual capstone project thatrequires the involvement of several disciplines.Our university offers a bachelor of science degree in engineering (general engineering) withconcentrations in biomedical (BME), computer (CE), electrical (EE), mechanical (ME), andmaterials joining engineering (MJE). Much of the curriculum is interdisciplinary. All engineerstake core courses including Statics, Dynamics, Circuits, Mechatronics, and Thermodynamics.Design projects have been included in several of these courses. In parallel, the Department ofEngineering
AC 2007-1788: MEASURING CUSTOMER PERCEPTIONS: A FOLLOW-UPCOLLABORATIVE PROJECT CONDUCTED BY STUDENTS FOR A MIDWESTTRUCKING COMPANYSorraya Khiewnavawongsa, Purdue UniversityKathryne Newton, Purdue UniversityEdie Schmidt, Purdue UniversityPatrick Green, Purdue University Page 12.1041.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Measuring Customer Perceptions: A Follow-Up CollaborativeProject Conducted by Students for a Midwest Trucking Company Page 12.1041.2AbstractCompanies are recognizing the benefits of working with universities on a variety of collaborativeprojects. The benefits, however, accrue to more than
interdisciplinary collaboration of electrical and mechanicalengineering students on a senior capstone design of an integrated technology High AltitudeBalloon (HAB) system. This project involves the design of a system with a smart high altitudeballoon that would reach an altitude of 100,000 feet and return safely to earth. Major challengesin this project were the efficient design of wireless communication modules, and radiation heattransfer analysis on the payload system. The electrical and computer engineering studentsfocused on wireless communication technology, control system design, and data analysis. Themechanical engineering students focused on the design aspects of payload, balloon fillingmechanism, flight path prediction based on the study of wind
, thestudents are well-prepared for their capstone design project.1. IntroductionTypically, a graduating engineering technology student will find a significant gap betweenwhat they learned in the classroom and what they face at work. The educational goal is toreduce the gap by giving students opportunities to work on practical projects in differentcourses and by creating an environment in the classroom/lab that is as close to the real worldas possible. A course project, designed to familiarize the students with real world productdevelopment processes, is discussed in this paper. The goals for the course project are threefold: to familiarize students with product development process; to familiarize students withtools commonly used in product development
serving a large and diverse constituency with limitedresources.IntroductionProject-based “capstone” design has become an integral component of the undergraduateengineering experience. Howe and Wilbarger1 surveyed over 400 programs in the 2005 NationalSurvey of Engineering Capstone Design Courses, a follow-up to a comprehensive surveyconducted by Todd in 19942. Last year’s ASEE conference contained a number of papers oncapstone design programs3-9, with many of them focusing on assessment practices and lessonslearned. Important benefits associated with collaborative design projects include: innovativeproblem solving, improved handling of complexity and ambiguity, enhanced communicationsskills and self-confidence, and improvements in team building
AC 2009-1908: A KICKING MECHANISM FOR A SOCCER-PLAYING ROBOT: AMULTIDISCIPLINARY SENIOR DESIGN PROJECTYanfei Liu, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort WayneJiaxin Zhao, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne Page 14.35.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 A Kicking Mechanism for a Soccer Playing Robot – a Multidisciplinary Senior Design ProjectAbstractThis paper describes a multidisciplinary capstone senior design project that involves the design,build and test stages1. It is a two-semester project that was conducted by five senior students inthe Department of Engineering at Indiana University - Purdue
spreadover a number of disciplines, among them engineering, architecture, management, business, andconstruction. This paper presents a case study of a project completed by teams of undergraduateand graduate students in the courses “Specialty Capstone” and “Introduction to FacilityManagement,” offered by a large university in the US in the spring 2008 semester.Facility management, if well-organized and well-structured, has the potential to not only improvethe physical performance and appearance of a building and its systems, but also to increase theusers’ level of satisfaction, and to improve the efficiency with which buildings are maintained,operated, and managed along their service lives. These two courses offered students anopportunity to
which cover identified. The content is then presented epistemic professional in terms of sequences of problems. discourses.PBL PedagogiesThe acronym PBL, unfortunately, encompasses both project and problem-based learningpedagogies. In order to avoid confusion it is important to distinguish between these twolearning approaches. Project-based learning is concerned with the application of existingknowledge to new situations which leads to the acquisition of practical skills. Problem-basedlearning requires the acquisition of knowledge to address a particular problem. In reality thereis an overlap between both project and problem based learning.Both PBL approaches have some commonality because they both
the team members’ individual reflective journals. This component also required student oral presentations in weeks 4 and 12. Table 6. Problems allocated to student team Project title 1 Energy and Environmental Audit and Assessment of various fuels and mixture of fuels operating at various and efficiencies and excess air. Fuels in question are: Methanol; Methane; Propane; Butane; Butane-propane mixtures; and Ethanol-octane mixtures. 2 An environmental assessment and LCA (life cycle assessment) of three selected bio- degradable polymers 3 Examination of the feasibility of production of ethanol, methanol and diesels from
and graduate courses in ET Masters program. Also, she introduced the first experiential activity for Applied Mechanics courses. She is coordinator and advisor for capstone projects for Engineering Technology.Dr. Richard Chiou, Drexel University Dr. Richard Chiou is Associate Professor within the Engineering Technology Department at Drexel Uni- versity, Philadelphia, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree in the G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His educational background is in manufacturing with an emphasis on mechatronics. In addition to his many years of industrial experience, he has taught many different engineering and technology courses at undergraduate and graduate
vehicle market in the world, with more than13 million motor vehicles sold in 2009. China used to be self-sufficient in oil supplies, but isnow estimated to import 40% of its oil consumption.(1) Other industrialized countries such asJapan, Germany, India and Brazil have seen tremendous growth in car sales.The history and projections of oil demand and production support the belief of the theory of peakoil at the present time. Basically, the theory predicts that oil production is at its peak in history,and will soon be below oil demand and possibly create an energy crisis.(1) Economic growth (1)relies heavily on energy supply. Emissions from fossil fuel are the primary source of GreenHouse Gas.(1) The emissions of a
, which is rooted in the concept of providing a hands-on learning experience tostudents. As hands-on learning is the prevalent way of education in ET programs throughout theworld, a majority of the courses taught in the programs have a laboratory component. On theother hand, capstone design projects (senior design projects) are a common hands-on course forfinal year undergraduate students across all engineering and technology disciplines.The capstone design courses provide an opportunity for undergraduate students to get involvedin open-ended real-world problems. The courses help students explore the societal need to applytheir knowledge gained over the years of undergraduate engineering or engineering technologyeducation. Starting with the
Paper ID #23634From Capstone Student-led Project to Experiential Learning Module: Designand Manufacturing of an Integrated System of Pico-Hydroelectric Generatorand Water FiltrationDr. Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.) Irina Ciobanescu Husanu, Ph. D. is Assistant Clinical Professor with Drexel University, Engineer- ing Technology program. Her area of expertise is in thermo-fluid sciences with applications in micro- combustion, fuel cells, green fuels and plasma assisted combustion. She has prior industrial experience in aerospace engineering that encompasses both theoretical analysis and experimental
Paper ID #23970A Senior Design Project in Fabrication of Microfluidic HIV/Zika Viral Loadand Monitoring Test Chips through Manufacturing ProcessesDr. Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.) Dr. Richard Chiou is Associate Professor within the Engineering Technology Department at Drexel Uni- versity, Philadelphia, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree in the G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His educational background is in manufacturing with an emphasis on mechatronics. In addition to his many years of industrial experience, he has taught many different
Paper ID #23936Student Project: Instrumentation and Control of Solar-Powered Algae Biore-actorDr. Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.) Dr. Richard Chiou is Associate Professor within the Engineering Technology Department at Drexel Uni- versity, Philadelphia, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree in the G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His educational background is in manufacturing with an emphasis on mechatronics. In addition to his many years of industrial experience, he has taught many different engineering and technology courses at undergraduate and
Engineering Department, Vaughn College, Flushing, NY Email: shouling.he@vaughn.eduABSTRACTIn this project, the Mechatronics Engineering students from the Department of Engineering andTechnology at a college in the northeastern region of the United States have developed aninnovative robotic vacuuming system. The system consists of two Omni-drive robots: a SlaveRobot (SR) and a Master Robot (MR). The SR works independently. It sweeps dust and dirt fromfloor surfaces, including the corners of a room, beneath cabinets, or behind tables and otherfurniture. Additionally, it sends information/data to the MR. The MR computes an efficient pathto vacuum dust and dirt in the sections of the room based on the information/mapping
Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA *{sazizi, avsergue, tarshizi}@mtu.eduAbstractThe objective of this project is to facilitate the use of automation in an underground miningenvironment. In an active underground mine, there are several hazards a worker can face. Theimplementation of autonomous control of the mobile equipment used in these mining operationsis one of the ways to cut down the number of injuries. It can also result in less time wasted for theworkers as well as an overall safer mining environment. With autonomous vehicles in undergroundmines, it is less likely for accidents to occur involving mine
developing formal degree programs and professional development programs for incumbent engineers, community college instructors, and high school science and technology teachers. He is the PI and co-PI of several federal and state funded projects for course, curriculum and laboratory development in advanced automotive technology.Dr. Jimmy Ching-Ming Chen, Wayne State University Assistant Professor 2015-present Wayne State University Ph.D 2006 Texas A&M University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Automatic Parking Vehicle SystemAbstractVehicle automation, autonomy and connectivity is a subject of mechatronics integrating manyengineering disciplines including
required to obtain themeasurements, or the need to have a microchip implanted in each animal and a portable scannerthat can read the microchip. Taking these limitations into a consideration, a team of students(Animal Science, Engineering Technology, Electronics, Electronics and Computer EngineeringTechnology (ECET), and Industrial Design & Development) and faculty were challenged todesign and develop a low-cost non-contact infrared thermography device. This was a special andinterdisciplinary project (not a capstone project) that was proposed by Animal Science faculty.Students and faculty in the project team designed and built the device after investigating existingsimilar products in the market.IntroductionFever is a common indicator of
Paper ID #14435Senior Design Capstone Project: Design and Development of Mount Struc-ture and End-Effector for Automated Robotic StackerProf. Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University Aleksandr Sergeyev is currently an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Technology program in the School of Technology at Michigan Technological University. Dr. Aleksandr Sergeyev earned his bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering at Moscow University of Electronics and Automation in 1995. He obtained the Master degree in Physics from Michigan Technological University in 2004 and the PhD degree in Electrical
and supervised students helping them to acquire the neces- sary knowledge, education, technical, ethical and communication skills. He is well respected and recog- nized by our graduates for his contributions resulting in their career successes. Moustafa is in charge of the senior design project for the mechanical engineering technology department. He encourages seniors to work on practical projects. Some of these projects are provided by local industrial and manufacturing corporations as a result of personal contacts and relationships with alumni. This interaction has proven to be invaluable in the growth and development of our graduates and sometimes leads to hiring oppor- tunities. Moustafa has been instrumental
. Page 26.1186.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 New Dimensions in Engineering Technology Education - Addition of An International Collaborative Component to the Undergraduate EET Senior Project ExperienceAbstractThis paper presents the outcomes of a new initiative that extends the current campus-centeredEET Capstone Senior Project activity at DeVry North Brunswick, NJ campus to a collaborativeinternational initiative that includes students from DeVry campus in Salvador, Brazil, creating amulti-team collaboration with geographically dispersed teams as part of this capstone SeniorProject course. The main focus of the work described in this paper is comprised of three
4600: Technical Practicum is a senior level required capstone design course offered bythe department of engineering technology, surveying and digital media. This course is offeredevery semester and requires the student to synthesize and apply subject matter studies in previousrequired courses and apply them to a realistic problem solving effort. In the Fall 2013, the ENTC4600 course’s learning outcomes were modified to infuse global perspectives of engineeringproblems and solutions. In that semester, students explored international markets mainlydeveloping countries, identified an engineering and technology related problem with thecollaboration of a focus group (consists of international students), and then designed anddeveloped a solution to