in the School of Applied Engineering and Technology at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas - Austin, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and a BS in Electronics and Communication Engineering from India. Dr. Shekhar also holds a Graduate Certificate in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. Prior to his current appointment, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher and Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Michigan. He is the recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Postdoctoral Researcher Award at the University of Michigan; and serves as a PI/Co-PI on multiple projects funded by the National
cannot start with a load [7]. To facilitate switching between these conditions, the system developed by C. Qian et al.measured SOC and load power [7]. The study developed a control system that used various loopsto control fuel cell current, charge current of battery, SOC of battery, input current, and busvoltage. The feasibility of the study’s control system and voltage bus performance was proven bycreating a simulation model in PSIM software. The capstone group intends to model the batterymanagement system and the active control system through Simulink. This study gave oneapproach to how a power switching system for a FCHEV could be controlled [7]. A conceptfrom this approach that could be used for the FCHEV capstone project is to break
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
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
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
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
low-tech automated controlsystems, and PBL small group discussions during the weekly group meetings. There are fivesuch courses at our institution – ENGR 199 (freshman level), ENGR 200 (sophomore level),ENGR 350 (junior level), and ENGR 400/450 (senior level capstone). In the SPIRIT meetings,ENGR 199 participants were paired with ENGR 350 participants, while ENGR 200 participantswere paired with ENGR 400/450 participants. However, group work and project managementdiscussions involved participants from each grade level. Groups were asked to record theminutes of their discussions and respond to several pre-prepared discussion prompts.During the semester-long projects, ENGR 350 participants were required to deliver an alphaprototype and to
) are previously developed ground rules systemsrepeatable in lower-division undergraduate engineering courses that perform group work? 2)does student team cohesion improve when team-specific ground rules are established prior toperforming group projects? The system was applied to a large undergraduate group engineeringproject that focused on a design-build-test application of bioengineering principles usingcomputer-aided-design. The sophomore level biomedical engineering course provided 21 teamsof 5-6 students with a student contract that established which particular ground rules areacceptable given the team’s culture. Students were encouraged to use their ground rules and teamcontract throughout the course’s group project to improve team
participated in hands-on workshops, class workand independent projects since its inception.In conjunction with establishing the PIDS, the required first-year drawing course was modified toinclude design projects scoped at a district hospital. The projects selected were a traction systemfor femoral fractures and a manual cast-cutting device. With the curricular modifications, allfirst-year students completed several steps in the engineering design process and createddimensioned drawings as well as low-fidelity prototypes of their design solutions in the PIDS.The final-year capstone design courses in mechanical and electrical engineering have also beentransformed to emphasize prototyping. Final-year students with access to the PIDS completedmore steps
heavily integrated into the classroom piece whichwould be not be replicable in our project as we had no classroom piece to use to grade such. “Inengineering, there are many examples of service-learning programs ranging from freshmanintroductory courses to senior capstone courses. Despite their successes, an area that theengineering education community has yet to fully develop is the reflection component of service-learning.”3 We have made a conscious choice to keep the project housed outside the bounds of a forcredit course due to student feedback which will be specifically discussed in the results section.RESULTS The exhibits that have been created over the years have varied greatly in design and have grown in depthand complexity over that
sustainability b. Evaluate a product/ engineering system’s environmental impacts using Life Cycle Assessment c. Design/ redesign a product/ engineering system to using the engineering principles to improve environmental impactsThe achievement of these goals was assessed through students’ self-evaluations and analysis ofstudents’ coursework. In addition, the objectives are also planned to be assessed throughstudents’ capstone senior projects. But at the time of creation of this work-in-progress paper, thestudents who took this course have not worked on their senior project yet, as a result, this part ofthe assessment is planned to be conducted once the students worked on their senior projects. Toextend and complete this work-in-progress, it
and enhancing the thermophysical properties of synthetic oils. This was the first demonstra- tion of the work ever done in this field and resulted in broad environmental and cost benefits, especially in energy storage and heat transfer applications. She has more than three years of experience teaching ther- mofluidic, mechanical design, and solid and structure courses and supervising senior capstone projects collaborating with industries such as Saint-Gobain, Klein Tools, and Parker. She also has served in lead- ership roles at the Society of Women Engineers and STEM advisory task force to represent diversity and inclusion and improve student success and retention for underrepresented students
, conceptual ideas,design sketches, calculations, technical references, professional contacts, component sources,software information, etc. The logbook should be dated and signed. Technical reports: In their senior design/capstone projects students work on two semesterprojects. In these projects, they are usually required to design and/or build a new product, deviceor an engineering solution. As an output of their engineering process, they are required to submitthe final report at least a week before the end of the semester. The average length of a seniordesign report is 20 to 30 pages. PowerPoint presentation: Engineering students are required to deliver a group oralpresentation to department faculty and fellow students during the last
implementation response analysis. #4 IIR filter IIR filter implementation and frequency Filter implementation response analysis.Table 4: Summary of existing Lab coursework using the dedicated TMS320C6713DSK boardThe new proposed labs that use the MCU-based platform would facilitate students to attain morecontent and practice DSP topics with more depth and complexity.IV: Senior capstone project improvement goals and assessment measuresThe Electrical Engineering program at Western Washington University is in the process oftransitioning from an ABET-ETAC Electronics Engineering Technology (EET) program to anABET-EAC Electrical Engineering (EE) program. All aspects of the curriculum are
- Engineering Innovation - Ideas for social enterprises created by the students; • Any year - Work Experience or internships with community-based organizations or social enterprises; • Year 3 or 4 - Engineering for a Humanitarian Context course as a dedicated elective subject; • Year 4 - Systems Engineering Project (1 semester) and Individual Research Project (2 semesters) - both involve service learning and external partners, the former with a group capstone project, the latter, with research to development or humanitarian contexts.Engineering for a Humanitarian Context (EfaHC). Although the student may participate in HEdriven activities in all years, just one elective course is specific to the subject of HE, the
test section and actively with a recirculation valve. The total cost for this projectwas approximately $3500 and required 3 months of part-time work to construct. Flow velocitymeasurements in the test section were made by simple flow visualization and found velocityranged from 0.32-0.65 ft/s within a 6”x12”x12” test section. The water flume was subsequentlyused by a senior capstone project for testing of their water turbine. Student self-evaluations wereused to assess whether their experiences reinforced fluid mechanics concepts and developed theirskills in experimental fluid mechanics. The results show that the students believed their workwith the water tunnel strongly met the learning objectives in the area of experimental methodsand
engineering design coursewith an embedded capstone design project. In addition to attending weekly 100-minute meetingsto learn about engineering design theory, methods, and tools, students in these courses metoutside of class to work on their capstone projects. The model for this course has previouslybeen published previously [18][19][20]. The following table showcases some of the differencesbetween the section taught using a more traditional lecture-based format and the section using aformat that rewarded adaptive expertise. Lecture-Based Adaptive Expertise- Feature of Course Section Based
Paper ID #30098Using the Entrepreneurial Mindset to Master Kinematics and Human BodyMotion in a Biomechanics CourseDr. Andrea T Kwaczala, Western New England University Andrea Kwaczala is an assistant professor at Western New England University in the biomedical engi- neering department. She teaches Biomechanics, Product Development and Innovation, Senior Capstone Design and Prosthetic and Orthotic Devices. She focuses on hands-on labs centered on student engage- ment and project-based learning. She works in affiliation with Shriners Hospitals for Children where her research focuses in the design of assistive technologies to
has been honored for its community-Collegepartnership. Projects also often address matters of campus value. Recent work, for example,conducted research to support the College’s adoption of a Climate Action Plan aimed atachieving carbon neutrality by 2035. As a few examples, students in capstone seminars in 2017,2018, and 2019 assessed the capacity for campus buildings to hold solar panels, investigatedoptions for microgrids on certain quads on campus, and helped the Office of Sustainability assessthe economic implications of bringing biogenic fuels to the College’s power plant.The 114 students enrolled in Engineering and Society over the last five years have been 39%female, and 25% of those who chose to specify an ethnoracial identity
: • Course Registration • All textbooks & course material delivery. • Video lectures, class notes. • Ability to complete all assignments, home works and exams. • Residency Week materials. • Capstone project materials presentation. • Technical support for eCampus or Blackboard Learn LMS courses • Tuition & fees billing checks and reminderseBooks Platform VitalSource was selected as the eBook platform based on the wide availability ofeducational books and their willingness to work with industry trade publications to get some ofthe books that the MID program was using on the eBook platform. Since 2015-16, all books areavailable in the VitalSource eBooks platform and delivered through their app – The
offered for the first time this year, and since only fivesenior energy engineering students were eligible for capstone design projects this year, weused overlap scheduling and included those five in the same room with the 65 students inthe ME capstone course. The capstone project for the energy engineering students wasproposed by the university’s building energy systems manager – review and update thebuilding energy models for four new campus buildings built with LEED certification inmind, identify discrepancies between actual building performance and model predictions,and develop engineering proposals for projects which provide a return on investment in lessthan 3 years and that would enable the buildings to meet or exceed the energy use goals
Paper ID #24498Tangible Electricity: Audio Amplifier and SpeakerMr. John Edward Miller, Baylor University John Miller is a Senior Lecturer in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Baylor Univer- sity. He teaches a wide range of courses, including the first-year program, mid-level laboratories, control systems, and capstone design. These courses lean heavily on hands-on experience and active learning. He has a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Baylor University, and currently serves as the Assistant Chair for the department.Dr. Brandon Herrera, Baylor University
. 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
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
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
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
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
cybersecurity and establish capstone projects related to cybersecurity.Execution of tasks for Goal 1: The proposed cybersecurity Capstone (3)concentration is being implemented at NNMC (see Fig. 1).USC implements a subset of the courses: IT Technical: Internship (400 hours) Intermediate and • Introduction to Cybersecurity (3 credits, NNMC): this Upper division Advanced Info. Assurance and Network Security (3) course is one of the two
Networks IIEECE Wireless and X X X342 Mobile ComputingIT 350 Database X X X ManagementEECE Web Engineering X355IT 410 Info. Assurance X X X X & SecurityEECE Software X X435 EngineeringEECE Advanced X X X X X X440 Computer NetworksENGR Engineering X X X X474 Project ManagementIT 490 Capstone I X X X X
mentors.EWB-USA projects can and often do span multiple semesters or even years.The curriculum for EPICS can accommodate projects in any phase of the design process and hassupported the current pilot project over the two semesters with plans to extend into the nextacademic year.Opportunities for the EPICS/EWB-USA credits to count as more, including capstone projects isunder discussion. The relationship with EPICS and EWB-USA will continue to evolve and maylook different at different institutions. However, it seems clear that EPICS can be a proven wayfor EWB-USA projects to be integrated into the curriculum in a way that promotes progress andaccountability on the projects as well as student learning. The curriculum structure documentsthat learning so