Conference Session

TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Burt; Shih-Liang (Sid) Wang

&T) is a two-course sequence. The change from a one-semester course fouryears ago allows students sufficient time to design projects from concept through prototypeconstruction, testing, and evaluation. The class has approximately forty students each year and isdivided into four to five sections, each with a different project. Projects include professionalsociety sponsored design competitions and industry sponsored projects. Design competitionsinclude Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Aero Design Competition, Formula SAE, andMini Baja, and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Design Competition.Industry sponsored projects include those from Boeing, Caterpillar, Kimberly Clark, Gillette, andMichelin.Industry sponsored projects

Collection

2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kaycie Lane; Jason Hawkins

industry as a whole. This studydocuments and briefly evaluated the design and preliminary implementation of a Python-based dataanalysis course into the sophomore-level design spine curriculum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.Using backwards design principles, this study used the principles of project and applications-basedlearning to identify a list of both engineering and coding skills and learning objectives for a new CivilEngineering Analysis II (CIVE 202) two-credit hour course. Learning objectives were then organizedinto five civil engineering specific projects across the civil engineering sub-disciplines of environmental,structural, transportation and geotechnical engineering to provide students with clear links betweencoding skills and

Collection

2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

LeRoy Alaways

Factors that Inhibit or Enable Success of Capstone Design Teams LeRoy Alaways Department of Mechanical Engineering Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19087Engineering capstone is considered the final and crowning design course in the engineeringcurriculum. A typical design team is made up with three to five students and is multidisciplinaryin nature. These teams are assembled either by project choice where a member is assigned to aproject, or by group choice where a project is chosen by an existing self-forming group. A self-forming group is characteristically a group of friends that clumped together during theireducational career. No

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; William Riddell, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Engineering Clinic sequence. Thissequence helps develop professional skills identified in the ABET A-K criteriathough project-based-learning. The specific role of the Sophomore EngineeringClinics is to provide an introduction to technical communication and engineeringdesign principles. Design skills are further developed in discipline-specific capstonedesign experiences and in the Junior/Senior Engineering Clinics.For many years, open ended design projects varying in scope from 3 weeks to a full semesterhave been presented in the Sophomore Engineering Clinics. In recent years, two newentrepreneurial assignments were integrated into Sophomore Clinic:  Sophomore Clinic I (fall semester): A white paper assignment, in which students examine a

Conference Session

Technical Session M3A

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

John Krupczak Jr, Hope College; Katharine Hopkins Polasek, Hope College

Tagged Topics

Workshops

Workshop Proposal: Hands-On Design Activities for Introduction to Engineering Courses to Accommodate Students of Varying Backgrounds John Krupczak Katharine Polasek Professor of Engineering Associate Professor of Engineering Hope College Hope College Holland, MI 49423 Holland, MI 49423 krupczak@hope.edu polasek@hope.eduSummaryIn this workshop, participants will be introduced to three different design projects specifically intendedfor introductory engineering

Conference Session

Construction Session 4: Outside of the Construction Curriculum

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Dylan John, Georgia Southern University; Marcel Maghiar, Georgia Southern University; Clint D. Martin, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Construction

framers from various industry companies, he found that safety is held at the same level of importance as productivity. He is also inter- ested in educational contributions and research opportunities towards integrating field-level construction knowledge in BIM models and exploring their benefits in classroom environment with feedback from jobsite project managers.Dr. Clint D. Martin, Georgia Southern University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016A Case for International Study in Construction Education and Industry PracticeIntroductionA Construction Management (CM) student at Georgia Southern University was offered a uniqueopportunity to do an internship with a

Conference Session

ECCD - Technical Session 6 - Energy & Thermodynamics

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Farshid Zabihian, California State University, Sacramento

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

students’deeper understanding of intended academic contents of a course through activities involvingcommunity partners to address social needs and problems. It is typically in the form of either directservice or project-based activities. Service learning as a pedagogical tool is gradually gainingmomentum in engineering programs across the country. In this paper the efforts of the author tointroduce service learning to an undergraduate thermodynamics course will be presented. For thispurpose, communications with the following museums were initiated: Powerhouse Science Center,Roseville Utility Exploration Center, and Aerospace Museum of California. Thesecommunications led to identification of the topics of interests for the community partners that

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jianyu Dong, California State University, Los Angeles; Huiping Guo, California State University, Los Angeles

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

NSF sponsoredproject, entitled “Enhance Computer Network Curriculum using Remote Collaborative Project-based Learning”. The focus of the project is to explore Collaborative Project-based Learning(CPBL) as a pedagogical approach to address the learning issues of under-prepared minoritystudents, and seek effective implementation strategy to extend the pedagogy beyond theclassroom through a remote learning structure. During the three-year project course, a newpedagogical model named as CPBL-beyond-Classroom was developed and its effectiveness hasbeen thoroughly evaluated in iterative classroom implementation. In this paper, we will analyzethis pedagogical model to illustrate how it can address the learning needs of minority students ona commuter

Collection

2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

J. Brighter; W. Childs; D. Mobbs; Z. Ross

mechanicscourses but students often have a hard time visualizing the concept. In order to provide a ready,visible demonstration of this phenomenon, a project was undertaken to design and construct anexperimental device which can be used to demonstrate the phenomenon of cavitation using apump, piping, control valve, and a heating element. It is anticipated that this device can be usedin fluids labs/classes to demonstrate cavitation and its results.Technical Accomplishments The design and completion of the pump cavitation demonstration device accomplishedthe task the group set out to do. Cavitation can be a vague concept, but the department will nowbe able to demonstrate the phenomenon by observation to future students. The clear acrylicfacing

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Yooneun Lee, University of Dayton; Sandra L. Furterer, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

work together on real-world service-based lean six sigma projects. The undergraduate coursecovered a Six Sigma Green Belt curriculum, and the graduate course incorporated additional Six SigmaBlack Belt tools. The student teams worked on 6 different Lean Six Sigma projects. For five of the sixprojects, two separate teams worked on each project, meeting with stakeholders and process ownerstogether, to reduce the redundancy of the material covered. For comparison purposes, there were threeundergraduate students only project teams, two graduate students only project teams, and six combinedundergraduate and graduate student teams. A Six Sigma Master Black Belt separate from the instructormentored the students on their projects, and assessed their

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

III, John J. Bausch; Fredric M. Gold

-—--, . . . . . - Session 1463 ‘ ‘Teaching Fixturing for Manufacturing Processes within the Learning Factory between Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Pratt & Whitney Fredric M. Gold, John J. Bausch, III Worcester Polytechnic InstituteAbstract: Engineering education is undergoing serious scrutiny by industry and academia due to perceived gapsin undergraduate education. Project based learning, at the undergraduate level, is an important facet ofaddressing this perception

Conference Session

Computing & Information Technology: Curriculum and Assessment

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Masoud Naghedolfeizi, Fort Valley State University; Xiangyan Zeng, Fort Valley State University; Chunhua Dong, Fort Valley State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology

programming assignment/project, implementing peer-to-peertutoring/mentoring, and engaging students in interdisciplinary/multidisciplinaryundergraduate research activities.This project is currently work in progress and expected to have a positive impact on thecurriculum of computer science program and all of its students from freshman to seniorlevel. We anticipate that the project will enhance the curriculum of at least 15 CS(including 12 upper level division) courses, increase the passing rate of students in gatekeeping courses by 30% or more and the graduation rate of normal completion time by atleast 40%, and improve the performance of senior students in programming subjects ofExit Exam by at least 50%. The project could also serve as a model for

Conference Session

Sustainability and Hands-on Engineering Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel A Brennan P.E., Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

resources. In this program, senior-level engineering courses trainundergraduate and graduate students to design and deploy ecologically-designed wastewatertreatment plants with renewable energy systems in collaboration with faculty-led research teamsand community participants. These courses are strategically designed to be training andrecruitment tools to help prepare the local student chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB)for the project, and to provide students at all levels with challenging, immersive, hands-onexperiences that augment their research and education in sustainability.This work is significant because it is one of the first international, multi-disciplinary programs inSustainable Engineering in North America, and utilizes a

Collection

2018 ASEE Conferences - Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration / San Antonio proceedings

Authors

Joseph Cecere

sustainability, is crucial to work in today’s society and profession. The capstonecourse is an ideal platform for students to engage in a real world construction project proceduresand structural design processes while focusing on the increasing demand of sustainability to theclient.Penn State Harrisburg’s Structural Design & Construction Engineering Technology (SDCET) programoffers two different capstone courses. One course focuses on Structural Design, while the other capstonecourse relates to Construction Management. Student teams from both courses work together on the designand construction of a building structure. Typically, the building structure is a project provided by a localstructural engineering or construction management firm. By working

Conference Session

FPD III: Innovation in Design in the First Year

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Miller, Pittsburg State University; Greg Murray, Pittsburg State University; Robert E. Gerlick, Pittsburg State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

a section ofGraphics, agreed to add a competitive element to the course. Rather than allowing students tochoose their own project, the students were broken into teams randomly within their section towork on a Competition-Based Learning (CnBL) assignment. This approach has been usedpreviously in other disciplines and has met with some success. 1Each team was required to design a racecar in the style of the Pinewood Derby, a competitionsponsored by the Boy Scouts of America (scouting.org), which would then be rapid prototypedusing a commercially available 3D printer. At the end of the semester, the teams within a classcompeted in head-to-head, best-of-three races until the fastest car in the class was determined;the winner of each class

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter L. Schmidt, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; James M. Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

North Carolina, Charlotte. He has served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas and as an instructor at North Carolina State University. He has also worked at IBM in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and Houston, Texas; at Ericsson/Sony Ericsson in Research Triangle Park, N.C.; and at BPM Technology in Greenville, S.C. Conrad is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). He is also a member of ASEE, Eta Kappa Nu, and the Project Management Institute. He is the author of numerous books, book chapters, journal articles, and conference papers in the areas of embedded systems, robotics, parallel processing, and engineering education

Conference Session

Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Engineering with and for Community Partners

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexa Renshaw, Western Washington University; Bree L Carpenter, Western Washington University; Kylea Assayag-Nodine, Western Washington University; Derek M Yip-Hoi, Western Washington University; Jill Davishahl, Western Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

towards increasing student sense of belonging. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Engagement in Practice: Engineering Solutions for a Local Organic Egg FarmAbstract This engagement in practice paper summarizes the development and implementation of acollaborative partnership between a local organic egg farm and Western WashingtonUniversity’s Engineering & Design program. The objective is to engage students in a project-based design experience while fostering meaningful community involvement. Over the past 18months, this collaboration gave students the opportunity to apply technical and businessmanagement skills to improve the farm’s economic success. Student teams, in directcollaboration

Conference Session

Introducing Sustainability into Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Brandes, Lafayette College, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

provide small islands of green space in urban environments, and capture a resource that is otherwise unused. Because existing urban areas, including college and university campuses, were largely developed prior to the implementation of ordinances requiring BMPs, an opportunity arises for incorporating both on-campus and community stormwater retrofit projects into civil and environmental engineering courses, and in the process, exploring sustainability in a quantifiable way that tangibly connects to the student experience. This paper will describe a case study of a five-year project in which students conceptualized, designed, helped to construct, and now monitor a stormwater detention wetland near campus. The objective of the

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

John T. Bell

programming and no VR experienceprior to starting their projects, and some of the students had not yet completed the relevantengineering courses. There have been fourteen students involved in the project to date, over halfof whom worked on the project for only a single term. This paper describes the experiences ofthis group, including the advantages and disadvantages to all concerned.The ProjectVirtual reality is a computer simulation technique that incorporates three-dimensional graphics,realistic sound, and often special devices to create an interactive immersive environmentdesigned to convince the user that the simulation is real. It is our belief that VR can become apowerful new tool in chemical engineering, and especially in undergraduate

Collection

2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Suzanne Bilbeisi; John Phillips

semester, students enroll in a six credit hour designstudio which meets MWF 1:30-5:20 pm, and is primarily taught by architecture faculty. Onethree-week project of the semester, however, is focused upon the exploration of architecturalstructural systems and design, and involves licensed architectural engineers in the presentation ofrelevant structural concepts and information, and in the critique of student work during thedesign process.An important aspect of the structures based project is the inclusion and introduction of thearchitectural engineering faculty to the beginning students in the programs. The five yearcurriculums for both the architecture and architectural engineering majors are arranged such thatstudents do not enroll in structural

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Evolution of a Senior Capstone Course Through the Assessment ProcessAbstractThe civil engineering senior capstone design course at the United States Coast GuardAcademy has evolved over the past fifteen years. Historically teams of cadets worked inparallel on one design problem with a single faculty advisor. The senior design projectsnow actively involve students in a variety of real world consulting projects to help theCoast Guard and local communities meet technical challenges. Each student team workson a unique project with a faculty advisor. The departmental assessment processconfirmed the educational benefits of student exposure to real world projects with clients,budgets, and deliverables

Collection

2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Evolution of a Senior Capstone Course Through the Assessment ProcessAbstractThe civil engineering senior capstone design course at the United States Coast GuardAcademy has evolved over the past fifteen years. Historically teams of cadets worked inparallel on one design problem with a single faculty advisor. The senior design projectsnow actively involve students in a variety of real world consulting projects to help theCoast Guard and local communities meet technical challenges. Each student team workson a unique project with a faculty advisor. The departmental assessment processconfirmed the educational benefits of student exposure to real world projects with clients,budgets, and deliverables

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Evolution of a Senior Capstone Course Through the Assessment ProcessAbstractThe civil engineering senior capstone design course at the United States Coast GuardAcademy has evolved over the past fifteen years. Historically teams of cadets worked inparallel on one design problem with a single faculty advisor. The senior design projectsnow actively involve students in a variety of real world consulting projects to help theCoast Guard and local communities meet technical challenges. Each student team workson a unique project with a faculty advisor. The departmental assessment processconfirmed the educational benefits of student exposure to real world projects with clients,budgets, and deliverables

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sarah M. MacGillivray, Education Development Center; Clara McCurdy-Kirlis, Education Development Center

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #33619STEM Learning & Resource Center (STELAR): Supporting EngineeringEducation within the NSF ITEST ProgramMs. Sarah M. MacGillivray, Education Development Center Sarah MacGillivray is an experienced project lead and technical assistance (TA) provider at Education Development Center (EDC), where she leads a body of work focused on addressing equity and access to high-quality education for all students. MacGillivray advances the goals of several National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded projects, including her work on the STEM Learning and Research Center (STE- LAR). The STELAR Center is the resource

Conference Session

Design for Community and Environment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Kimes, University of Missouri-Kansas City; Deborah O'Bannon, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

completed the work within the two semesterclass time and worked closely with City of Kansas City engineering staff. The construction isplanned for late 2006 and will use the students’ design.IntroductionThe Civil Engineering Capstone Design course at the University of Missouri-Kansas City haspartnered with the City of Kansas City, Missouri Department of Public Works to design useful,traffic-bearing structures since 2003. Civil engineering projects for the senior design class areparticularly difficult to identify because civil engineering projects are typically large andcomplex. Past projects at the University of Missouri-Kansas City were usually eitherretrospective/paper designs or projects of such great scope that the students seldom got a senseof

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Yeu-Sheng Shiue

machining tools, CNC programming, and welding in their sophomore year. In order tomaintain students’ manufacturing skills through interaction and hands-on experiences, anindustry or community-related class project must be carefully selected. Applying classroomknowledge to a day-to-day product is the best way to make students realize the importance of thesubject. In the junior level Kinematics class, instead of building traditional simple four-barlinkages or slider-crank mechanisms, a project is selected to apply four-bar linkage, gear andgear train, relative motions to a day-to-day product. The current project is to design andmanufacture an automatic feeding device for children who have disabilities. The main focus ofthis project is on the

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

David S. Cottrell

Session 2793 Integrating Construction Engineering Planning Into a Structural Civil Engineering Program David S. Cottrell, P.E., Ph. D. United States Army Corps of EngineersAbstract This paper describes the planning, design, and teaching of a new course in entitled“Construction Engineering Planning,” developed to augment the civil engineering curriculumat the US Military Academy with related topics in construction. This course effectivelyblended construction management principles – planning, organizing, staffing, directing, andcontrolling – with project engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Kepner, Hillsborough Community College; Mel Cossette, Edmonds College

Paper ID #38341National Science Foundation ATE Grant Funding andMentoring OpportunitiesGreg Kepner (Principal Investigator) Greg Kepner serves as a Co-PI of the MNT-EC (Micro Nano Technology Education Center) and the PI for the ATE Collaborative Outreach and Engagement Project. He previously served as the PI of the NSF-ATE MPEC and Co-PI of OP-TEC (The National Center for Optics and Photonics). In 2019, he retired from Indian Hills Community College after 32 years where he has served as the Department Chair, Advanced Manufacturing Department, Industrial Technology Coordinator, and Robotics/Automation instructor. Greg

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rubaya Rahat, Florida International University; Piyush Pradhananga; Mohamed Elzomor, Florida International University

). Following his graduation in 2016, he joined a leading real estate corporation in Nepal as a site engineer working on a multi-million project. He later joined a research firm based in London where he worked as an Engineering Graduate Researcher. Piyush is currently a Graduate Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant at the Moss School of Construction, Sustainability, and Infrastructure at FIU where he focuses on multidisciplinary research that harmonizes sustainability in construction. His other research interests include Sustainable Construction, Robotics, and AI-based Construction, Engineering Education, Green Buildings, Sustainable Infrastructure, Resilient and Sustainable Post-Disaster Reconstruction, and Circular

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Design I

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Paul Harvie, United States Military Academy; Tanya Thais Estes, United States Military Academy; Lisa Shay, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Know Your Role! Designing Faculty and External Stakeholder Roles in a Multidisciplinary Capstone CourseAbstractThis paper describes our development of novel faculty roles and our method for the planning andexecution of projects in our year-long, multidisciplinary capstone experience. Well-defined rolespermit management of increasingly complex multidisciplinary and multidepartment projects,prevent duplication of effort, and help ensure an enriching and rewarding student experience.These roles have enabled us to offer an unprecedented variety and scope of projects with anaverage of