Conference Session

Educating Students for Professional Success

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shekar Viswanathan, National University, San Diego; Howard Evans, National University, San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Materials Shared University Research Committee; Ph.D. Recruiting Coordinator for IBM’s Systems Technology Division; and executive sponsor for 3M division’s student programs. He has published and presented widely in areas of surface science, electronic materials and processes, project management, and industry/university relations. He holds 4 patents and has received awards for excellence in technical innovation (IBM), technical authorship (IBM), teaching (University of Colorado), and scholarship (National Science Foundation). Page 14.666.1© American Society for Engineering Education

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Max Lucas

philosophy of the architectural engineering curriculum at the University of Kansas is toexpose students to the wide range of engineering and architectural subjects involved in the design andconstruction of buildings. While students do have a series of elective courses available in each of theabove areas, which allow them to develop an “area of emphasis”, students do not “major” in any singlearea. However, graduating seniors are required to complete their education with a capstone course taken ‘during their last semester in school which does allow them to design complete building systems in theirchosen area of emphasis. The capstone course for students with an emphasis in structural analysis and design is ARCE 681- Architectural Engineering

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

James B. Pocock, U.S. Air Force Academy; Patrick Charles Suermann P.E., Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural Engineering, Construction Engineering

design) and designintegration and presentation. The students learn how architects and engineers work together inmulti-disciplinary teams to complete a building design project. The course is assessed each yearthrough course assessment plans, course assessment reports, student course critiques andprogram graduation surveys. Quantitative and qualitative assessment data are presented. Itsupports multiple ABET student outcomes and criteria. Students rate it among their favoriteundergraduate courses. More importantly, it prepares them for their future roles in designing andmanaging real building projects.Keywords: ABET, architecture, civil engineering, engineering design, interdisciplinary, BIMIntroductionUndergraduate civil engineering programs

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Livingston, Virginia Military Institute

0x8* bits 0 to B 0x80 to 0x8B byte out 0x90 followed by byteKoios I will find immediate application in our capstone design course as well as in independentundergraduate research efforts where students are likely to have experience with programming inhigh-level languages and microcontrollers. The capstone design course typically involves thedesign and implementation of a robot that competes in a regional contest. Independentundergraduate research projects often are designed around embedded systems and the ease ofinterfacing and programming that is offered by Koios I will allow students to concentrate on thehigh-level details of the project.Our microcontrollers course is project based. Koios I

Conference Session

Best Practices in Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kari Clase, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

- specific courses.• 1 Capstone Course (3 credits): Students work in multidisciplinary groups on real Page 12.505.3 world projects that apply the principles learned in core and option courses. Students may be involved with a start-up or early stage company, work on launching a venture of their own, or participate in an entrepreneurship- or innovation-related internship or experiential program.Functional objectives include: (1) ensuring that the program is easily accessible bystudents pursuing their own majors; (2) creating strong awareness of the program; (3)developing its practical value to undergraduate students; and (4) generating a high

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Design – General Topics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Eastlake, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Magdy Attia, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

comfortablethat it is OK to circumvent the careful error checking which occurs during the grading of writtendesign review reports. Also, several of the tasks include drawings of portions of the design as itprogresses. And the creation of traditional drawings, even on a good CAD system, seems to bemore of a distraction than it is worth. Those traditional drawings will probably be replaced(already have been, to a large extent) by tracking the evolution of a single Catia solid model.And formal discussions have already begun with other degree programs on the practicality ofcoming up with interdisciplinary capstone design projects that involve several departments. Thisis a logistics challenge of some magnitude, but seems to be the real world trend that

Conference Session

Micro-Technology and Nanotechnology

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hisham Hegab P.E., Louisiana Tech University; James D Palmer, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

conducted by the NSE program chair with each graduating NSE student during his/her last quarter. The survey provides a measure of student impression of achievement for all a-k outcomes. Figure 1 provides a historical set of data that the NSE program has collected on the student outcomes. 3. Capstone Project Evaluations. At the completion of the senior design project sequence, all student teams participate in the senior design conference hosted by the college. This conference is held in conjunction with an industrial advisory board meeting for the NSE program. Advisory board members attend the senior design conference and provide an assessment of the senior projects. 4. NSE faculty assessment. In their junior

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Virendra Varma

is being taught to what is being shown in the course syllabus and theuniversity catalog.In my teaching of the course on Current Topics in Construction at our institution, thissenior level course which is a senior level seminar-cum-capstone course, the descriptionof the course has been given a broad description: “Study of selected topics, such asunderground construction, underpinning, formwork and other project supportrequirements; evaluation and review of current practices in construction. The courseincludes study and research in a specific area that combines major elements fromprevious construction engineering technology courses culminating in an integratingexperience through individual and/or group projects, technical reports and

Conference Session

Related Engineering Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Bowman

studio classroom arrangement and related pedagogical stylecombine to form a very effective teaching environment for introductory design-orientedcourses.26The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), through their EngineeringCriteria 2000 (EC2000), has prompted engineering programs to incorporate capstone projectengineering courses in their programs.27 Early design experiences in the curriculum prepare thestudent with the tools and laboratory practice for more meaningful senior capstone projects. Sixof the EC2000 criteria appear to be logical goals for the Practicum course, albeit at anintroductory level. • Ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering. • Ability to design and conduct experiments as well

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Bahador Ghahramani

-time study at their place of work and during their free time. Mostgraduate candidates are expected to complete the EMGT degree requirements in three years byregistering for at least four courses per year and completing the capstone project as an additionalcourse in the final year. Those candidates who have more hectic work schedules are able tosatisfy a MS degree within five years. UMR’s program in EMGT was recognized and awarded as number one among all NTUuniversity programs by students and site coordinators. In NTU, the MS degree in EMGTrequires 33 semester credit hours covering two broad course categories. These two categoriesconsist of Core Courses (including a Capstone Project course) and Elective Courses. Elective

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Madeline Polmear, University of Colorado, Boulder; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Nathan E. Canney

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

, in other cases clear differences were evident. For example, somebelieve that ethics education must be grounded in ethical theory, while others believe this to beunnecessary. In addition, ESI issues that arise “naturally” in the context of engineering projects(either in community service programs, projects for clients, or capstone design) were perceivedas being particularly impactful by some, but perhaps falling short by others.What was missing from all of the two-page summaries of the ESI teaching settings was evidenceof student learning. This is a key element in the next phase of the research. A sub-set of courseshave been selected for further study based on the exemplary rating process. For this sub-set oflearning environments, the

Conference Session

Teaching and Advising Tools Using Computers and Smart Devices

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emil H Salib, James Madison University; Ian Healey, ASIS International; Alexander Ryan Chamberlain, Cisco Systems ; Livia S Griffith

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

across campus. Not only are expenses incurred inhardware costs but also in manpower hours setting up and tearing down computing labs, installingsoftware and maintaining images.In [1], the authors provide excellent survey of the opportunities of using Cloud Computing ineducational environment. We also believe that the problems identified above can be solved byintegrating a private cloud computing environment into James Madison University’s educationalresources. This challenge became the topic of a senior capstone project at James Madison Uni-versity. Two students and their advisor proposed to address these issues by utilizing VMwarevSphere [2] and Horizon View software [3] suites. Horizon View is a cloud computing solutionthat provides access to

Conference Session

FPD 9: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part III: Research, Sustainability, and Professionalism

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University; Kyle G. Gipson, James Madison University; Jonathan Howard Spindel, James Madison University; Elise M. Barrella, James Madison University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

sustainability. Prior to joining the JMU Engineering faculty in 2012, Dr. Barrella was at Georgia Tech completing her Ph.D. research as part of the Infrastructure Research Group (IRG). She also completed a teaching certificate and was actively involved with the Center for the En- hancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) at Georgia Tech. Her academic interests focus on two primary areas of sustainable transportation: (1) community-based design and planning and (2) strategic planning and policy development. Dr. Barrella is also interested in investigating how to best integrate these research interests into classroom and project experiences for her students

Conference Session

Implementing the CE BOK into Courses and Curricula

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

to the most important skillswere significantly different, with the exception of the relative importance of design and math. Inaddition, five senior civil engineering students mapped their personal course experiences to theBOK2. One student noted that the capstone design course alone covered 21 of the 24 BOK2outcomes, indicating that a single course can achieve a wide range of objectives and one neednot view the BOK2 outcomes as “course-by-course” requirements. However, the outcomes inthe senior design course were somewhat dependent on the specific project and the individualstudents’ role on the project. For example, a service learning project for a developingcommunity achieved to some extent the globalization outcome that other students

Collection

2022 ASEE - North Central Section Conference

Authors

Wesley Carpenter, The University of Akron

place in the latteryears of a 4-year MET program, this research can provide a baseline understanding of how METstudents approach design problems so better strategies can be developed to provide appropriatescaffolding as design skills are taught throughout the program.Introduction Mourtos emphasizes the importance of engineering design by considering design as theheart of engineering [1]. Design capstone experiences have been a staple of engineering andengineering technology programs and are excellent tools for bringing practical engineering intothe curriculum [2], however, typically such projects have been in the final year of typicalundergraduate program. Recently however, a resurgence in first-year, or cornerstone engineeringdesign

Conference Session

Educating for Results: Tools used in Engineering Technology

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Recayi 'Reg' Pecen; Ayhan Zora; Faruk Yildiz, University of Northern Iowa

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

learning pace and knowledge level of students in many applied subjects. Thispaper presents a number of case studies used in applied class projects, laboratoryactivities, and capstone senior design projects for a B.S. degree program in electrical andmanufacturing engineering technology. Many students have found the software toolshelpful and user friendly in understanding fundamentals of physical phenomena inengineering and technology areas.1. IntroductionThe development of educational and industrial software and simulation tools has beenconsiderably increased. Industrial applications started to concentrate replacing expensiveequipments by software and simulations tools while a number of educational institutionsare preferring simulations tools

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division Curriculum Development

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed Gharib, Texas A&M University; Michael A. de Miranda, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

Instrumentation 4 √MMET 363 Mechanical Design Applications I 3 √ESET 419 or Engineering Technology Capstone I 3 √MMET 429 Managing People & Projects in a Techn SocietyRDNG 465 Reading in the Middle and Secondary Grades 3 √ √TEFB 324 Teaching Skills II 3 √ √Summer Total 6UCC University Core Curriculum 6 Fourth YearFall

Conference Session

Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University; Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

entrepreneurial skills.Mindset of student engineers are benchmarked at the beginning of the freshman year and thenagain at the end of the freshman year, soon after completion of a team based poverty alleviationfreshman capstone project. Two pre and post control samples of freshman engineer mindsets arebeing collected from similar sized engineering programs at comparable colleges in ourgeographic vicinity. Initial beginning-of-year testing results indicate a statistically significant tilttoward a fixed mindset in freshman engineering students compared to a growth mindset observedin an opportunity sample of freshman business students. We are tracking engineering studentsboth at the group and at the individual level, by major and by other statistically

Conference Session

Architectural Design Topics in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Cherif Megri, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

Figure 6: The importance of the project to help you understand the codes concepts?Future plans to evaluate the effectiveness of the capstone in term of learning outcomes: Actions that willbe implemented to improve the effectiveness of the curriculum in term of learning outcomes:  We expanded on the instructors’ self-evaluation such that more direct assessment of students’ learning outcomes is obtained. A set of standards for instructor’s self-evaluation will be prepared by the faculty and the Board of Advisors and will be implemented with the annual assessment cycle. The main point of these standards is that the evaluation of students’ performance will based on samples of work in three categories of students

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharifa Alghowinem, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Aikaterini Bagiati, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Andrés F. Salazar-Gómez, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cynthia Breazeal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT)

projects. Thisresearch also analyzes how adult learners interactively learn, reflect, and apply their AIknowledge to examples drawn from their workplace, while improving their understanding andreadiness to implement AI technologies effectively.Our three-day workshop centered around enriching and engaging learning about AI technologies,ethics, and leadership, featuring topics like supervised learning and bias, AI strategy, andgenerative AI. Apart from discussions, the workshops incorporated hands-on learning with digitaltools, robots, problem-solving scenarios, and a capstone project. Participants were 44 leadersfrom a large government organization. Their learning was measured through pre- andpost-questionnaires on AI leadership, knowledge checks

Conference Session

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Case Studies in Construction Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carmen Paz Munoz, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile; Monica Quezada-Espinoza, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Construction Engineering Division (CONST)

contributory courses and tools in the Final ConstructionEngineering Portfolio CourseStudents were given a list of conceptual and technical tools as part of the capstone coursedesign. The students were asked to choose the top five tools they believed would be the mosthelpful for the project, followed by the ones they considered least useful. Table 1 belowprovides a summary of the students' selections. Detailed tables of all responses can be foundin Appendix 2.Table 1. Courses and tools with the highest and lowest contributions to the portfolio course. # Most helpful (Frequency) Least useful (Frequency) Construction Scheduling and Deadline Risk prevention considerations. (14) 1 Analysis

Conference Session

Materials Division (MATS) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sofia Ahmed, University of Florida; Matthew J. Traum

Tagged Divisions

Materials Division (MATS)

) providing opportunities for leadership, mentorship,and networking.xxiiiThe Researcher Incubator technique developed originally by Traum & Karackattu was applied tosuccessfully engage URSP students in the research enterprise. xxiii The Researcher Incubator positsthat if students are 1) taught needed skills, 2) empowered by group work, and 3) vested withserious responsibility they will spontaneously find and/or develop whatever knowledge isrequired to succeed on the project.xxii This technique has proven effective to engage lowerdivision engineering students and even high school students in productive research.Two URSP freshmen were recruited into the project. These students enrolled in a research-for-credit course in parallel with a classroom

Conference Session

Student Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lauren Jennings, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Courtney June Faber, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Kayla Arnsdorff, University of Tennessee; Rachel McCord Ellestad, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Tagged Divisions

Student

Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. Her research interests include the impact of metacognitive and self-regulated learning development on engineering student success, particularly in the first year. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 ‘This Seems Reasonable’: Using Metacognition and Epistemic Cognition to Justify the Reasonableness of Solutions in Senior DesignAbstractThis work in progress paper focuses on a study to investigate how senior capstone designstudents use metacognition and epistemic cognition to determine the reasonableness of solutionspresented by their teams. There is significant research that points to the importance ofunderstanding how epistemic cognition and

Conference Session

Biology in Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark McConkie, Utah State University; Timothy Taylor, Utah State University; David Britt, Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

programs will face as they attempt to redefine themselves and emerge from an existing discipline in which they are firmly, and perhaps necessarily, rooted. The question, however, must be raised as to whether the specialty courses exist within the biological engineering program, or should students simply be directed to a different department to gain focus and specialization? A similar question arises as to the research opportunities for capstone design projects. At USU we have been bringing required courses into the Department (such as Thermodynamics and Modeling) in order to provide the necessary “bio” focus.• Absence of specialization. Trying to work outside of the department’s core expertise

Conference Session

Issues in the Professional Practice of Faculty Members in Civil Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allen Estes, California Polytechnic State University; Brent Nuttall, California Polytechnic State University; Cole McDaniel, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

who Page 13.1043.3have experienced the industry first hand will be needed to teach these subjects. Only a personwho has worked on numerous real world engineering projects is best qualified to assess whethera student capstone design project is realistic and relevant.Since practitioners are needed, then there needs to be a career track where their services can bevalued and rewarded. In most universities, practitioners are included on the faculty as adjunctprofessors. They are paid less and are not viewed as full-fledged partners. Most do not have thePh.D. credential that accords equal status. For many schools this is a business

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Tan, Texas Tech University; Luke LeFebvre, University of Kentucky; Tim Dallas, Texas Tech University; Changxue Xu, Texas Tech University; Jnev Biros

Africa, Asia, and Central America to provide much needed educational content to entire classrooms using picoprojectors. In 2008, he established Class on a Chip, Inc. to commercialize an array of micro-experimental devices for use in engineering, physics, and MEMS classes. In 2014, he established a new class in the Whitacre College of Engineering, Technology Start-up Lab, which takes students through a process to develop their own technology projects for commercialization. Each summer, he teaches a class entitled Solar Energy, which includes a hands-on solar energy design project. Dr. Dallas has served as the principal investigator for two National Science Foundation sponsored Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM) projects, a

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Said Ahmed-Zaid; James J. Carroll

complete a sequence of three labora- overall design spirit. According to the personal experiencetories culminating in the senior capstone design laboratory. of the investigators, many students performed poorly due to a number of deficiencies which can be attributed as follows:The first two electrical engineering laboratoritis are takenduring the sophomore and junior years, respectively, and are 1. Meaningful senior design projects require inter-common to all electrical engineering disciplines. ln t hfise disciplinary teamwork between students of various elec-introductory laboratories, students are introduced to the trical engineering backgrounds

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Adetoun Yeaman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ; Diana Bairaktarova, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Kenneth Reid, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

engineering. He has written texts in design, general engineering and digital electronics, including the text used by Project Lead the Way. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020A Qualitative Study of Empathy in the Experiences of Students in a First-Year Engineering Service-Learning CourseEmpathy is an important ability for engineers, it allows us to connect with the people we impactas we seek to solve problems, engage in design and innovate technologies. This ability iscommonly and casually defined as the ability to put oneself in another person’s shoes. Severalresearchers within and outside of the engineering education community have sought to defineand suggest practical

Conference Session

Design Tools and Skill Development

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William H. Guilford, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

training in Molecular Biophysics at the University of Vermont under David Warshaw. His research interests include novel assessments of educational efficacy, the molecular basis of cell movement, and the mitigation of infectious diseases. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017A skills-focused approach to teaching design fundamentals to large numbers of studentsand its effect on engineering design self-efficacyDesign courses are often tasked with teaching all the steps of the engineering design process inthe span of a single semester. Project-based curricula are particularly useful in this regard,providing end-to-end exposure all the steps of the engineering design process, includingfabrication

Conference Session

Institutional and Curricular Reform

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pierre Lafleur, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal; Yves Boudreault, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal; Richard Prégent, École Polytechnique de Montréal

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

.) (26 Complementary studies (10 cr.) New approachMathematics and basis sciences InternshipJust in time / Contextualization Engineering science and Engineering designIntroductory Integrative Personal Capstone project project project project Complementary studies International and Soft skills specialization Figure 2.0: Comparison between the old and new programs