Conference Session

Marketing Engineering to Minority Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; John Duffy, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

initiative, 25 engineering faculty members actually implemented S-Linto at least one of their courses during the 04-05 academic year and 34 faculty in 05-06. In2005-06 over the two semesters an average of 700 undergraduate students participated in S-Lprojects in 52 courses, some with required S-L projects and others elective. This wide variety ofcourses included, for example, a first year introduction to engineering with 300 students,kinematics, soil mechanics, heat transfer, engineering ethics, electronics, plastics design, strengthof materials, and a senior EE capstone course on assistive technology with 70 students.Community partners included the Lowell National Historical Park, many local rehabilitationclinics, a local food bank, the City

Collection

2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

William Lorenz; Ross Lee; Karl Schmidt; Pritpal Singh

' ' •  2'thesis'or'elec0ve'courses' Figure 4. Core Sustainable Engineering CurriculumThe program is interdisciplinary, weaving theory, assignments, guest lecturers and case studieswith team project experience. The core courses also use interactive critical thinking sessions tobuild students’ awareness and gain better appreciation of the STEEP issues that are inter-relatedon most product, process and system views. Students graduate from the MSSE program bycompleting either a capstone project or thesis.Our emerging MS in Sustainable Engineering has evolved a central “methodology” that wereference in all of our core courses. Figure 5 lists some the central ideas in our evolvingapproach. Villanova

Conference Session

Design Related

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sean Stephen Tolman, Utah Valley University; Matthew J. Jensen, Utah Valley University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

of the survey questions directly asked the students about the course content. As expected,for the 1st and 4th year courses (Intro to Engineering and Capstone respectively), the vastmajority of students stated the design process was taught and they applied the design process inthat course. More surprisingly, a majority of students from Statics and Linear Systems alsostated that the design process was formally taught in the course despite both courses focusingsolely on modeling and analysis. Additionally, the Statics and Linear Systems students alsostarted that they had applied the design process on at least one assignment or project. In Statics,no formal design problem or assignment was given, and in Linear Systems a group designproject was

Conference Session

Curriculum in Mechanical and Power Engineering Technology

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Vuksanovich, Youngstown State University; James Higley, Purdue University, Calumet

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

considered very valuable, thereis mounting evidence supporting a reduction in the quantity of general education and an increasein discipline related classes.At the BS level, YSU requires 133 credit hours while PUC requires 125. PUC requires 15 credithours of communications while YSU requires 9. Math, science, and technical areas agree withina few credit hours. Most of YSU’s additional hours are in social sciences/humanities with 21hours required while PUC requires 9. In the technical areas, YSU shows a greater concentrationin the area of automation while PUC emphasizes project management, OSHA, and technicalelectives. Perhaps the largest area of difference is the capstone project. PUC uses a four credithour two course sequence where the students

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Schuver, Purdue University; Mark Smith, Rochester Institute of Technology; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; Joseph Tidwell, Boeing Co.

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

, scientists, technical managers, and other experienced professionalsmoving to mid- and senior level positions associated with product and services innovation.Students are selected and fully sponsored by their organizations. RIT chose an executive formatwith classes held all-day on Fridays for two full years.The 60 credit hour program consists of 13 business and engineering courses, including threeelectives, plus a two-quarter Capstone project. Specific electives are offered on Fridaysconsistent with the executive format, but students may select other electives offered at othertimes during the week or via distance delivery. In addition to coursework, students take two

Conference Session

Technology-Based Entrepreneurship Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hsu Tze Chi; Han Bee Shan

" 2004_1612business and business administration. The fuel cell scooter and educational kitpowered by fuel cell were used as capstone design projects to integrate the knowledgetaught in the modular courses. To facilitate these capstone projects and provide a closelink to the business environment, the design projects were implemented as a virtualcompany. In doing this, we believe that students will be more effectively prepared tomeet the challenges in the future job market.II. Modular Courses Sophomore and junior students are qualified to join these modular courses. Allinvolved courses are classified in Fig.1. Students must join one of the modularcourses and fulfill all of the requirements specified in that module. In addition to therequirements stated in

Collection

2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Robert Edwards; Gerald Recktenwald

of core principles. Knowledge and problem solving abilities can get students through a traditional course, butunderstanding of core principles is needed for them to be able to apply their knowledge to uniqueproblems. Two approaches that are currently popular for confronting misperceptions and tryingto develop understanding are project-based learning and inquiry-based learning. 3 Project-based learning involves open ended projects, often with ill defined constraintsdesigned to challenge the students to think and hopefully develop a better understanding of theprinciples involved. Clearly, capstone projects fall into this category

Conference Session

ECE-related Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dennis A. Silage, Temple University; Keyanoush Sadeghipour, Temple University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

not certainlybe pedestrian in nature.ME for EEs: Mechanical SystemsSuch an ME for EEs course (ENGR3334 Mechanical Systems) has been developed, presented,and assessed by direct and indirect methods for three semesters and contributes to the continuousimprovement of the EE program. The ME for EEs course replaced a requisite three semester hourcourse in statics without a laboratory in the Electrical concentration in our EE program. Thecourse topics and projects in MATLAB, Simulink and SimMechanics provide a reasonable hands-on experience that is directly extended in the course on digital control and the capstone seniordesign project.The ME for EEs course topics and the direct Engineering applications certainly counter the ironicsentiment that

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii

). Thisconcept is part of an educational philosophy that distributes design experience across thecurriculum before it culminates into two capstone-design courses in the senior year. This successhas led the author to change the way he teaches engineering science courses.In this paper, the author synthesizes the experiences and success that he has had in integratingdesign in fluid mechanics (Njock Libii, 2002)25 and in vibration analysis into the essentialpedagogical practices that led to this success.There has been renewed interest in examining the teaching of design in the engineeringcurriculum in the past decade (Martin, Adams, &Turns, 2002)21. This interest has been spurredin part by the new accreditation criteria required by ABET-2000 and in part

Conference Session

Modern Teaching Strategies in Engineering

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dirk Joel-Luchini Colbry, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

shared repository andhighlighted many of the practical and logistical issues that needed to be resolved as theSCHOLAR approach evolved [7].https://gitlab.msu.edu/CMSE/data_science_bridge_curriculumCase Study: Undergraduate Data Science CapstoneStarting in the spring of 2023, the SCHOLAR approach was integrated into the data sciencecapstone course at Michigan State University (MSU). Data science is a new undergraduate majorat MSU, with the first senior-level capstone design course offered in spring 2022. This coursetypically serves 60 students divided into 12 project teams working with community partners on avariety of real-life data science challenges. During the first year, it became apparent that studentsboth needed tutorials and resources for

Conference Session

Design Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hong Zhang; John Chen; Bernard Pietrucha

courses that emphasize more on integrating and practicing existingknowledge instead of entirely new content. In many schools, capstone design is often asatisfying answer. In Rowan University, there are already many hands-on project-basedcredits available from the unique Engineering Clinics offered throughout the four years.However, the projects in Junior/Senior Engineering Clinics are often based on facultyresearch or external industrial projects, which are naturally distinctive from each other. Wefeel that it will be helpful if we can provide a touchstone project that will put all the studentson a common ground. In this course, the core curricula of Mechanical Engineering, such asMachine Design, Mechanical Design, and Fluid Dynamics will be

Conference Session

BME Course and Curriculum Development

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alisha L. Sarang-Sieminski, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

through the senior capstone engineering design project. All students also take courses inmath and science (including physics, chemistry and biology). Together, these courses provide Page 25.417.4students with their technical fundamentals. Required coursework in arts, humanities, the socialsciences and entrepreneurship, including a capstone experience, provides context to their scienceand engineering background.The BioE program, then, complements this engineering foundation by both providing a deepunderstanding of biological systems and through the application of engineering approaches in abioengineering context. Given the limited number of courses

Conference Session

Best In DEED

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Eunhye Kim, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Carolina Vivas-Valencia, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Lindsey B. Payne, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Nan Kong, Purdue University at West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

. Feel concerned or happy for another. Empathic Distress Self-oriented affective process. Experience distress as a result of feeling for another.MethodsSetting & ParticipantsThis study was conducted in a junior capstone design project course, a prerequisite to the seniorcapstone design course. This junior-level, team-based course provided students withopportunities to explore a design problem for innovation in the biomedical engineering field andpropose a prototypical design solution at the end of the semester (Spring 2019). Throughout theone-semester course project, each student team had two presentations. The first one was a reportof the project progress and an initial version of the problem

Conference Session

Assessment and Curriculum Development

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Henry Louie, Seattle University; Pritpal Singh, Villanova University; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego; Scarleth Vanessa Vasconcelos, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

1 (Highest priority) 52% 43% 7% 2 32% 33% 33% 3 (Lowest priority) 16% 23% 60%Overall, the perceptions of EA education in terms of quantity and quality remained consistentwith the previous year’s workshop. The workshop participants broadly saw a need to improvehow EA education is taught and to expand the number of universities teaching it, especiallywithin the curriculum at the undergraduate level.Enhancing the Classroom ExperienceThe workshop allocated considerable time to discuss the curricular teaching of EA. Here,curricular teaching includes courses, capstone projects, and independent studies with a focus

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jing Guo, Colorado Technical University; John M. Santiago Jr., Colorado Technical University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

projects combining both technical skills and elements of the entrepreneurial mindset.This lab modification is part of a curriculum-wide effort to integrate EML to different coursesequences. Students will be repeatedly exposed to entrepreneurial skills when applying them totheir capstone design as well in the other course sequences.CoE’s a long-term vision is to graduate students who have visionary leadership to create valueand innovative solutions not only for themselves but also for their employers and for the benefitof society. CoE also intends to address the ABET question, paraphrased as: where to do you seeyour graduates three to five years beyond graduation?The authors of this paper attended an “Innovating Curriculum with Entrepreneurial (ICE

Conference Session

COED: EE Topics

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Ephraim Nielson, Utah Valley University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Modeling a Perceptron Neural Network Using Verilog Developed Floating- Point Numbering System and Modules for Hardware SynthesisAbstractThe purpose of a capstone design project is to provide graduating senior students the opportunityto demonstrate understanding of the concepts they have learned during the course of their studies.As with many engineering programs, students of the computer engineering program at Utah ValleyUniversity (UVU) conclude their degree programs with a semester capstone design experience.This paper presents the details of a sample project that a student has done in this capstone course.This senior design project implements the perceptron neural network using Systems

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 5B: Work-In-Progress: 5 Minute Postcard Session II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anita Vila-Parrish, North Carolina State University; Tameshia Ballard Baldwin, North Carolina State University; Lina Battestilli, North Carolina State University; Hailey Queen, North Carolina State University; Jessica Young Schmidt; Susan Carson, North Carolina State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Industrial Engineering at NCSU in 2010 and has since expanded her research in inventory optimization to include engineering education. Her experiences as an engineer have motivated the work done in this study as well as others that aim to improve the success of students entering the global landscape. She teaches the industry-sponsored capstone design course which has led to a second stream of research focused on developing methods to model problem-solving during capstone design.Dr. Tameshia Ballard Baldwin, North Carolina State University Dr. Tameshia Ballard Baldwin is a Teaching Assistant Professor working jointly in the College of En- gineering and in the Department of STEM Education within the College of Education at

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Kurtis Kredo; Dale Word

-the-art low cost components into a sequence of embedded and digital systems designcourses so as to maximize the learning opportunities provided to students for the resourcesinvested. The resources required, both time and monetary, are minimized in several ways.Low cost, but flexible and current, components are selected, which minimizes costs to theuniversity or student. The investment is further leveraged by using the components in multiplecourses throughout the curriculum and allowing students to maintain possession of thecomponents for independent learning and capstone projects. Integrating the componentsacross multiple courses also simplifies managing replacement parts, if desired. Judiciousselection of components and projects can also

Conference Session

Engaging Community through STEM partnerships

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica A. Kuczenski, Santa Clara University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

installation requirements (e.g. when design doesn’tmeet reality). Overall, this project-based learning experience profoundly impacts studentlearning, as witnessed by a final student quote: “I wish everyone had to take this class prior to taking Senior Design [Capstone Experience]. This class is so helpful in learning how to manage a project! I learned more from this experience than I did from my other [engineering] courses about design.” (Bernardo Quevedo, CBED) V. ConclusionThe ongoing collaboration between ​CBED,​ BUG, and the San Jose Unified School District hasbeen successful from each perspective, delivering student projects which have added educationaldimensions to the school gardens and created a positive visual

Conference Session

Professional Engineering Management Initiatives

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Merino, Stevens Institute of Technology; S. Jimmy Gandhi, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

Advanced Cost Accounting Advanced Cost Estimation3.A.2 Engineering Economics Costs & Economic Decision Making Time Value of Money Interest Rates Figures of Merit After Tax Analysis Sensitivity Analysis Uncertainty and probability4.A Project Management4.A.1 Project Management Project Life Cycle Processes involved in project management Project management environment Tools used in project management Scope of project Determination of skills required Development of schedules Development of cost estimates Risk Management Issues Monitoring project Progress Making tradeoffs in a project4.A.2 Capstone Related5.A

Conference Session

Understanding and Measuring the Impact of Multidisciplinarity

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandra Coso, University of Virginia; Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Participant InformationThe Leaders in Engineering Program (LEP) at Southeastern University is an interdisciplinaryundergraduate engineering program, which combines concepts and methodologies from SystemsEngineering (SE) as well as Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). One of the mainobjectives of this program is to enable students to work on interdisciplinary engineering projectsrequiring an understanding of electrical and computer design as well as systems analysis. Overthe course of three years in the program, students will be required to complete coursework inboth the SE and ECE departments, including two joint laboratory courses in the third year and ateam-based, interdisciplinary capstone project in the fourth year.In fall of 2009, 15

Conference Session

Construction Session 2: PM, BIM, and Collaboration

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yilei Huang, South Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

received 35 responses. The results suggested that 83% of them had included BIM in theircurriculum, and the majority (55%) implemented BIM in one to two courses. Most constructionprograms were teaching BIM for 3D coordination (37%), 4D scheduling (25%), and 5Destimating (20%).Existing ApproachesSince BIM is being implemented gradually, many CM programs have been struggling tounderstand what and how to teach4, 42. The various implementation strategies that CM programshave employed to incorporate BIM into the curricula can be grouped into four categories:standalone courses, cross-discipline courses, capstone/project courses, and integration intoexisting courses.Introducing BIM in standalone courses is an effective approach to quickly cover

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Narayanan Komerath

undergraduate’scurricular experience. Students of aerospace engineering await this opportunity to exercise theirdreams, eagerly, often to the frustration of the teachers charged with ensuring that they learn theother technical subjects which are less glamorous and more difficult to the undergraduate.Professors who as undergraduates have taken Capstone Design courses, cannot help feeling thatsuch a course is a dubious use of scant senior-year time, since the level of the material is not aschallenging as that of the upper-level courses and independent projects in our disciplines. On theother hand, there is no argument about the need for students to have significant designexperiences in the curriculum.At the other end of the curriculum, there is a strong need to give

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

Collection

2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Ben Groenewald; Christina L. Carmen, University of Alabama, Huntsville

Tagged Topics

Diversity, International Forum

the end of the classroom visit, a “post-survey” is administered to the K-12 students. The questions are identical to those on the “pre-survey” in order to gauge the K-12 students’ learning outcome as a result of the presentation and STEM tool demonstration. The STEM tool is donated to the school along with a detailed Operations Manual and Lesson Plan (if initially requested by the K-12 teacher). 7. The survey results are evaluated by the engineering design students and capstone design class instructors.Figure 2. The STEM tool project process utilized within the ALLIES partnershipWhile the primary goals of the ALLIES partnership are to develop the future STEM workforceby inspiring younger students via hands-on STEM

Conference Session

Microcontrollers, Programming, and Data Acquisition

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sean Patrick Kirby, University Of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Julius Omokiniovo Ejenavi, Morgan State University; Payam Matin, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.Mr. Julius Omokiniovo Ejenavi, Morgan State University Julius Ejenavi Descriptive Bio: Julius Ejenavi is currently a full time graduate student at Morgan State University. Mr. Ejenavi is presently working on his Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering specializing in wireless communications.He received his Undergraduate Degree with Honors in Engineering with an Electrical Engineering Specialization from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) in Decem- ber 2013. In his Senior Design Project,Mr. Ejenavi worked in a team to design a Data Acquisition System for Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar (SHPB) Setup.At Morgan State University, Mr. Ejenavi worked on

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yongming Tang, Southeast University; Jiahua Lu, Xilinx; Yanfang Deng, Nanjing Integrated Circuits Industry Service Center; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

International

government has proposed the “NewEngineering” series of educational reform projects to improve the quality of professionalpersonnel training, including the Excellent Engineer Training Program, Engineering EducationAccreditation, Industry-University Cooperative Education Project, etc. [14, 15]. As part of theseeducational reforms, most Chinese universities have focused on expanding joint educationalactivities with industry from curriculum construction to subject competitions to internshiptraining, as well as joint capstone design projects, etc. Fan and Shao provide an overview ofplans, programs, and challenges for university-industry collaborations in China [16].Although most Chinese colleges and universities have realized the importance of university

Conference Session

DEED Technical Session 9 - Design Across the Curriculum

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rubaina Khan, University of Toronto; Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto

spine, through several cycles of design, may help students to overcomehabits detrimental to design, such as jumping to propose solutions. Other implicit forms ofdesign appear in non-design courses with a project-based pedagogical approach or applyingdesign thinking to address an open-ended challenge.A design spine may also be connected through a design framework where certain elements of theframework are emphasized in each course to develop confidence and competence throughrepetition [36], which is difficult to achieve in a bookend (cornerstone and capstone) curriculumapproach [7]. A design spine/learning progression provides a structure that can thrive throughchanges such as scaling up a program, increasing offerings of courses, and changing

Conference Session

Computing Technology Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jingwen(Jess) Li, PSU; EUNSIK KIM, Pennsylvania State University; Alec M Schultis, Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering; Andrew Joseph Kapfer, The Pennsylvania State University ; Jimmy Lin, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Peter A Yake; Domenic M Erjavec; Benjamin Dabat; Ling Rothrock, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

following questions are left unaddressed: how toevaluate the effectiveness of a gamification product in education? What would students learn ifthey create and criticize gamification products? To answer the above research questions, thispaper proposes a peer-based gamification critiquing process based on peer-developedgamification products. Both the development and critique processes were applied throughCapstone projects. Capstone projects in the United States have become increasingly popularamong many engineering education programs under ABET requirements since the 20th century[19-21]. Capstone projects are different from traditional engineering courses in terms ofproviding senior-standing engineering students with experience solving “real world

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Iftekhar Ibne Basith, Sam Houston State University; Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Andres Aguirre Jr.; Kali Johnson, Sam Houston State University

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

D 0-59 FTwo mid-term exams are introduced to cover more topics, so students have a better and clearer idea aboutdifferent projects to work on. The major change is to introduce a Final project to be demonstrated on relevanttopics. The main goal is to generate ideas for a capstone project that is required of students and is nowintegrated in the new curriculum (ETEE 4099). Each student submits HWs (10%) based on the lectures givenon Number systems, Gates, Boolean Algebra, De-Morgan’s, Logic Minimization, Latches, Counters, ShiftRegisters, different applications like MUX/DEMUX, Encoder/Decoder, Half/Full Adder etc. The students sitfor two mid-term exams (each 20%) and a final exam (20%). The first mid-term exam is

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidar Malki, University of Houston; Michael Gibson, University of Houston; Enrique Barbieri, University of Houston; William Fitzgibbon, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

in businessand public organizations. An example of a graduate practicum course appears in the AppendixCapstone Thesis/ProjectsSimilar to the curricula for the M.S. degree in Technology at Arizona State University5, studentscan select either a “research-focused thesis or applied project” as the capstone experience for theM.T. degree. In either case, students fulfill a capstone experience comprised of a proposaldevelopment, proposal defense before their graduate committee, thesis or project completion, anddefense of the completed thesis or project before their graduate committee. The thesis/project Page 11.1345.6deliveries are expected to be