ProjectsAbstractThis evidence-based practice paper provides engineering educators teaching first-yearintroductory courses, who are new or looking to update their courses, inspiration with diverseproject ideas. The active learning via project-based, activity-based, and service-based courseswithin the first-year engineering curriculum has proven effective for students not only to becomemore engaged and motivated but also to experience increased learning and retention. Generally,first-year engineering courses are meant to create student experiences that are meaningful, open-ended, and hands-on in addition to being an introduction to working and communicatingeffectively within teams. Whether one is an experienced educator or not, looking for projectideas to adapt
Paper ID #40236Introducing ROS-Projects to Undergraduate Robotic CurriculumDr. Lili Ma, New York City College of Technology Professor Lili Ma received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Utah State University focusing on autonomous ground vehicles. After that she did three-year post-doctoral training at Virginia Tech working with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Prior to joining the Dept. of Computer Engineering Technology at CUNY New York City College of Technology, she taught at Wentworth Institute of Technology for eight years. Her research interests are in designing coordinated control schemes for a group of
Paper ID #38508Introductory materials science: A project-based approachDr. Lessa Kay Grunenfelder, University of Southern California Lessa Grunenfelder has a BS in astronautical engineering and a MS and PhD in materials science, all from the University of Southern California. In 2015 she joined the Mork Family Department of Chemical En- gineering and Materials Science at USC as teaching faculty. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses on material properties, processing, selection, and design. She is passionate about sharing her love of materials science with students through curriculum that combines
Paper ID #36332The First-Year Computer Science Experience ProjectProf. John Cole, The University of Texas at Dallas I’m an Associate Professor of Instruction at the University of Texas at Dallas. I had taught part-time at Collin County Community College for three years, and prior to that, at Illinois Institute of Technology in the mid-1970s, which is also where I earned my degrees. Before joining the full-time faculty at UTD in Fall 2012, I had taught part-time for 13 semesters. I have been a software developer for many years, working on projects as diverse as a SNOBOL4 compiler, a DATABUS compiler, a word processor, the
Paper ID #36643Pump Design Project for Large-Scale Thermodynamics CourseMr. Brett Austin McCandless, North Carolina State University Brett Austin McCandless is a graduate student at North Carolina State University, where he is pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. He is also a course instructor at North Carolina State University, Campbell University, and Johnston Community College. He is currently researching ultrasound propaga- tion in bone, in the hopes that understanding the propagation will lead to better pre-screening methods for osteoporosis.Prof. Nancy Moore PhD, North Carolina State University The author
Paper ID #36597Engineering Stress Culture in Project-based EngineeringProgramsLin Chase Dr. Lin Chase is an experienced “tech” executive with an extensive track record in the successful development and delivery of artificial intelligence, data, and networking technologies in complex business environments. She spent 35 years applying emerging software technologies around the world in the US, Europe, the Middle East, India, and East Asia before joining the faculty at Minnesota State University, Mankato as the Director of the entirely project-based Computer Science undergraduate program.Michelle Soledad (Assistant
Paper ID #36736Using Project Based Learning (PBL) with Control TheoryStephen Andrew Wilkerson (Assistant Professor) Stephen Wilkerson swilkerson@ycp.edu received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1990 in Mechanical Engineering. He retired from the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Aberdeen Proving Grounds after 33 years of service. During the last 15 years of Stephen Wilkerson’s work for the U.S. Army; his focus was on unmanned systems mainly drones and small robots. During his career with ARL he has been an instructor at the United States Military Academy West Point for three years and the exchange scientist
Paper ID #38330Developing optical devices and projects for teachingengineeringNathan Lemke (Associate Professor) Nathan Lemke is Associate Professor of Physics and Engineering at Bethel University (St. Paul MN). He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Colorado. His research interests include atomic clocks, optical time transfer, atomic vapor cells, and laser stabilization technologies. Recently he has become interested in improving STEM education with student- led projects.John McCauleyTristan E NobleGrace RiermannEllesa St. GeorgeNathan Lindquist (Professor of Physics and Engineering)Keith Robert Stein
Paper ID #36826Feast or Famine Terrarium Project (Resource Exchange)Vicki V. May (Professor) Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth.Samuel S Streeter (Graduate Student)Sara Vannah © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Feast or Famine Terrarium Project (Resource Exchange) Overview Learning Objectives Vicki May1, PhD, Roger Sloboda2,Program Description: Through a project PhD, Michele
Airflow Velocity Measurements: A Project-Based Learning ExperienceKayson ChristensenJordan HuntBrayden ParadyMelanie ButtsAbdennour SeibiProf. Abdennour is a member of ASME and SPE. He received his BS in Mechanical Engineering, MS,and Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics at Penn State University. He is a distinguished researcher inproblems related to the energy sector and advanced materials. He has published over 150 technical papersand 30 technical reports which earned him international recognition from ASME and SPE. He is currentlya Professor in the Mechanical Engineering program, at Utah Valley University, Orem, UT, USA.Mohammad ShekaramizMohammad Masoum © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023
Paper ID #36475A Student Senior Project: Magneto HydrodynamicRenewable PowerAlireza Kavianpour (Professor) Dr. Alireza Kavianpour received his PH.D. Degree from University of Southern California (USC). He is currently Senior Professor at DeVry University, Pomona, CA. Dr. Kavianpour is the author and co-author of over fifty technical papers all published in IEEE Journals or referred conferences. Before joining DeVry University he was a researcher at the University of California, Irvine and consultant at Qualcom Inc. His main interests are in the areas of embedded systems and computer architecture
Paper ID #36623Impact of COVID-19 on Capstone Projects OutcomesAsif Ahmed (Assistant Professor) Currently Assistant Professor in SUNY Poly, Utica, NY © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comImpact of COVID-19 on Capstone Projects OutcomesAbstractCapstone Projects, CTC 490, is a mandatory course for all Civil Engineering Technologystudents during their senior year. This specific course is designed to apply cumulativeexperiences gathered from wide range of courses in the curriculum. The students analyze anddesign real life civil engineering project, write a
member of the Software Technology Lab. While at FAU, he consulted for Motorola, over many years, on improving their development processes. Dr. Van Hilst has two bachelors and a masters degree from MIT. He did his PhD at the University of Washington under David Notkin.Reginald Paul Parker (Professor) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Schedule Risk and PERT in Undergraduate Capstone ProjectsIntroductionThe senior capstone project is a rite of passage for students of engineering. It serves as anintroduction to “real world” project experience before they go out into the real world. It is a timefor students to learn
Paper ID #37673MAPPING OF ABET REQUIREMENTS THROUGHSENIOR DESIGN PROJECTSManish Paliwal (Associate Professor) ProfessorBijan Sepahpour (Professor) Bijan Sepahpour is a registered Professional Engineer and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the College of New Jersey (TCNJ). He has served as the Chairperson of the ME department at TCNJ from 2006 through 2015. He is currently serving as the Coordinator of the Senior Design Projects (of the M.E. Program) and the Faculty Advisor to the ASME- Student Club at TCNJ. Prof. Sepahpour has been actively involved in the generation of design-oriented exercises and
McMaster University.Dr. Stephen Andrew Wilkerson, P.E., York College of Pennsylvania Stephen Wilkerson (swilkerson@ycp.edu) received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1990 in Mechanical Engineering. His Thesis and initial work was on underwater explosion bubble dynamics and ship and submarine whipping. After graduation he took a ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 An Interdisciplinary Myoelectric Prosthetic Hand Capstone ProjectAbstractInterdisciplinary capstone projects have been used in engineering education to provide studentsan opportunity to collaborate on a project with students from other disciplines that are differentfrom their
the programmer. Thus, there needs to be a specification language forexpressing business rules. We have seen the Entity Relationship (ER) and EnhancedEntity Relationship (EER) notations work well for specifying many business rules. Infact, EER notation was invented to allow more business rules to be shown in graphicalform than the simpler ER notation1.In this paper, we use the ER notation to represent business rules graphically at conceptuallevel for a relational data model to enforce database consistency for the type of services amechanic can provide for an airplane.Project DescriptionIn this project, we have simplified the airplane maintenance system by including theentity types Airplane, Mechanic, Service and Training and the relationships
Paper ID #38528Deep Learning Projects for Multidisciplinary Engineering Design StudentsMr. Robert L. Avanzato, Pennsylvania State University, Abington Robert Avanzato is an associate professor of engineering at the Penn State Abington campus where he teaches courses in electrical and computer engineering, computer science, and robotics. His research interests are mobile robotics, artificial intelligence, computer vision, deep learning and virtual environ- ments. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Deep Learning Projects for Multidisciplinary Engineering Design StudentsAbstractDeep
Paper ID #37716Implementation of Sustainability Concept in Capstone ProjectsDr. Asif Ahmed, State University of New York, Polytechnic Institute ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Implementation of Sustainability Concept in Capstone ProjectsAbstractCapstone or senior design is a mandatory course during the senior year of any undergraduateengineering discipline. The students apply their cumulative knowledge gathered over the othertechnical courses taken during the study. While the capstone projects are designed to check thestudents’ overall scientific understanding of the subject matter, often the sustainabilitycomponent
Paper ID #36841Student Peer Lecture in Capstone Design ProjectDr. Xiaobin Le, Wentworth Institute of Technology Professor, Ph.D, PE., Department of Mechanical Engineering and Technology, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA 02115, Phone: 617-989-4223, Email: Lex@wit.edu, Specialization in Computer Aided Design, Mechanical Design, Finite Element Analysis, F ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 STUDENT PEER LECTURES IN CAPSTONE DESIGN PROJECTS Xaiobin Le Wentworth Institute of Technology1. INTRODUCTIONThe
integration of formative feedback during a faculty member's earlycareer stages and tying in with our newly developed and evolving faculty mentoring program. In addition,we are designing a multi-pronged feedback system that will help instructors reflect on their teaching andreceive the support they need in order to improve their teaching continuously. Our new evaluation systemwill consist of three main parts: student impressions, self-reflections, and peer observations.In the summer of 2022, our school was awarded a grant through AAU to participate in their AAU STEMDepartment Project on Teaching Evaluation. A team from Thayer is participating in an AAU LearningCommunity around Teaching Evaluation (AAU, 2022).Goal and ObjectivesThe goal of our project
Paper ID #38447Teaching Civil Engineering through Integrated Projects in GISDr. Kevin A. Waters, P.E., Villanova University Dr. Kevin Waters is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Villanova University. He teaches numerous undergraduate and graduate courses in water resources engineering including fluid mechanics, hydrology & hydraulics, and open channel hydraulics, as well as a general civil engineering course in GIS. In 2022, he was the recipient of the Villanova University Engineering Alumni Society Award for Teaching Excellence
Paper ID #37465Term Design Project in Fundamentals of Engineering CourseDjedjiga Belfadel (Associate Professor)Isaac Macwan Dr. Macwan is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering at Fairfield University. He got his PhD in 2014 from University of Bridgeport. He is interested in developing bioelectronic devices and understanding the interactions at the interface of biological macromolecules and nanoparticles.Elif Kongar (Associate Dean)John F Drazan (Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering)Michael Zabinski © American
Paper ID #35887STEM Project Experiences with Wireless Sensor NetworksDr. Ramakrishnan Sundaram, Gannon University Dr. Sundaram is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Gannon Univer- sity. His areas of research include computational architectures for signal and image processing as well as novel methods to improve/enhance engineering education pedagogy.Mr. Tyler John SeelnachtZachary Owen Dickinson American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Work-in-Progress: STEM Project Experiences with Wireless Sensor
. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Game Design in Computer Engineering Capstone ProjectsAbstractThe purpose of a capstone design project course is to provide graduating senior students theopportunity to demonstrate understanding of the concepts they have learned during their studies.As with many computer science and engineering programs, students of the computer engineeringprogram at Utah Valley University (UVU) conclude their degree programs with a semestercapstone design experience. The intent is for students to utilize competencies developed in thefirst three years of the curriculum in the solution of an embedded design problem.Recently many of our computer engineering
Library and Information Science at School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Her scholarly goal is to broaden STEM participation for socially marginalized groups by designing constructionist learning envi- ronments and mobile technologies to empower youth, families, and informal educators. Previously, she worked as a project manager to develop smartphones.Dr. Nikeetha Farfan D’Souza, Indiana University Bloomington Nikeetha Farfan D’Souza is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Office of the Vice Provost for Diversity and In- clusion. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, with an emphasis in science education, at Clemson University. D’Souza’s research
Paper ID #33806Integrating Building Sciences Courses As an Integrated ProjectDr. Reza Foroughi, Appalachian State University Dr. Foroughi has a Ph.D. in Architectural Engineering from Penn State University. He is currently an assistant professor of Building Sciences at Appalachian State University. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Integrating Building Science Courses As an Integrated Project
Paper ID #34262Middle School Capstone Engineering Projects (Work in Progress)Dr. Kenneth Berry, Southern Methodist University Dr. Kenneth Berry is a Research Professor at the Caruth Institute for Engineering Education (CIEE) in the Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University (SMU). He has worked as an education specialist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory until he received his doctorate in Educational Technology in 2001. He then taught at the Michael D. Eisner School of Education at California State University at Northridge (CSUN). In 2009, he moved to Texas to work at the Science and Engineering Education
Paper ID #33072Minimizing Communication Challenges Faced by Virtual Project TeamsMr. Nathaniel Blalock, University of Tennessee at Knoxville Nathaniel Blalock is pursuing a Chemical Engineering degree with biomolecular and pre-medicine con- centrations from the University of Tennessee. He performs engineering education research with Dr. Court- ney Faber, metabolic engineering with Dr. Cong Trinh, protein engineering research with Dr. Eric Boder, and neuroscience research with Dr. Larry Millet.Miss Alexis Rae Walsh, University of Tennessee at Knoxville I am a fourth year Industrial Engineering student at the University of
Paper ID #33819Preparing Future Engineers Through Project Based LearningProf. Mark Wong, Contra Costa College Mark Wong is a professor of physics and engineering at Contra Costa College (San Pablo, CA).Sergio Alexander Alvarez, Contra Costa College N/AMr. Jonathan Alexander Canel, Contra Costa College Student at Contra Costa College with a major in Aerospace EngineeringMr. Phiroze Jhalman DuggalMs. Yesenia Rodriguez MorenoDaven NgMiss Nathalie ZaldivarDr. Chao Liu, Contra Costa CollegeMr. Jeff Kamalian, Contra Costa CollegeDr. Seti Sidharta, Contra Costa College American c
Paper ID #33152An Innovative Approach to Teaching Project Resource LevelingDr. David S. Greenburg, The Citadel Dr. Greenburg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Leadership and Program Man- agement (ELPM) in the School of Engineering (SOE) at The Citadel. He served over 20 years of active military service in the United States Marine Corps. During his military career he served in a variety of pro- gressively responsible command and staff and leadership positions in Infantry, Logistics, Acquisition, and Human Resources; with peacetime and combat experience. Upon completion of active military service