Conference Session

Capstone Design Practices

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Xiuhua April Si, California Baptist University; Ziliang Zhou, California Baptist University; Jinxiang Xi, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

defected design.In order to help them to gain this important skill, our mechanical engineering students wereexposed to two simulation software in two different required courses. These two software isSolidworks and Comsol Multiphysics. While taking the courses, the students did not realize thevalue of this tool until the capstone project.In this following described wind-tunnel design project, the students involved in the projectwitnessed first-hand the values of computational modeling and simulation in gaining insights intothe wind tunnel aerodynamics, performances comparison of various designs, and the optimizationof the design. Students who were required to use computational simulations in this design not onlypracticed their simulation skill

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone Design

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael P. Frank, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering; Kamal E. Amin, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Okenwa I. Okoli, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Sungmoon Jung Ph.D., FAMU-FSU College of Engineering; Robert A. Van Engelen, Florida State University; Chiang Shih, Florida A&M University/Florida State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

and is currently the Director of the Aeropropulsion, Mechatronics and Energy Center established in 2012. He is also the coordinator of the ME Senior Capstone Design Curriculum since 2008. Page 24.566.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Expanding and Improving the Integration of Multidisciplinary Projects in a Capstone Senior Design Course: Experience Gained and Future PlansAbstract Over the last several years, the multidisciplinary capstone Senior Design Project programimplemented by the departments of Mechanical

Conference Session

ET Capstone Courses

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hamid Khan

Session 2648 Teaching to Design, Build, and Test in Senior Projects: Learning Outcomes in the Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor Domains Hamid Khan Master of Technology Program Northern Kentucky University Highland Heights, KY 41099 khanh@nku.eduAbstract: ABET Criterion I.C.2.b: “Technical Design Courses ---- These are courses inpractice-oriented standard design applied to work in the field, such as construction, inwhich students acquire experience in carrying out established design

Conference Session

Design Projects in Mechanical Engineering II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Novoselich, United States Military Academy; Joel Dillon, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

. Page 14.1285.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Two is Better Than One: Experiences Revitalizing a Capstone Design Competition ProgramAbstractThis paper examines the steps taken to revitalize the Baja SAE program at the United StatesMilitary Academy (West Point). Due to some significant issues with the 2007 Baja SAE team,West Point did not compete in the 2007 competition. Because Baja SAE is conducted as a seniorcapstone design project, the lack of competitiveness led the senior faculty advisor to examine theprogram and take steps to prevent future failures. A brief history of the West Point Baja SAEprogram, course framework, and steps taken to revitalize the program are discussed in

Conference Session

Integrating Systems Engineering into the Capstone Project

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vigyan Jackson Chandra, Eastern Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

communication skills. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Solution-based learning (SBL): Using systems engineering principles to guide capstone projects in technologyAbstractIn this paper, a new learning framework – solution-based learning (SBL) – is introduced. Itoffers a way of motivating students to continuously improve products or processes based onpractical or aesthetic considerations. This learning framework keeps the focus on early andsustained success through all phases of a project. It leverages selected principles of SystemsEngineering such as developing a discovery-oriented, multidisciplinary, life-cycle view ofany given project. It also provides learners with the

Conference Session

CAPSTONE (SENIOR) DESIGN AND UNDERGRADUATE PROJECTS

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University ; Michael G. Mauk, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

Paper ID #16835Training Global Engineers: A Capstone Senior Design Project in EnergyHarvesting and SustainabilityDr. Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University Irina Ciobanescu Husanu, Ph. D. is Assistant Clinical Professor with Drexel University, Engineer- ing Technology program. Her area of expertise is in thermo-fluid sciences with applications in micro- combustion, fuel cells, green fuels and plasma assisted combustion. She has prior industrial experience in aerospace engineering that encompasses both theoretical analysis and experimental investigations such as designing and testing of propulsion systems

Conference Session

Aerospace Student Projects, Engineering Design and Research

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Wilhelm A. Friess, University of Maine

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Aerospace

Paper ID #28956Lighter than air vehicles as aerospace focused projects in a mechanicalengineering capstone sequenceDr. Wilhelm A Friess, University of Maine Dr. Friess holds a Ph.D. in Aeronautical Engineering and a B.Sc. in Physics from Rensselaer Polytech- nic Institute (1997), and currently is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering with the Univer- sity of Maine. Previously he has spent 5 years in Dubai as inaugural faculty of RIT Dubai and Dubai Aerospace Enterprise University. Dr. Friess’ industrial and academic career spans a variety of consult- ing and entrepreneurial activities in Europe, Asia and Africa

Conference Session

Student Teams and Project-Based Learning

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University; Christine Co, Oklahoma State University; Bear Turner, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

inwhich students design, build, and test a complex project. These programs are increasinglyindustry sponsored 1, and expose students to many of the real constraints engineers face.Capstone courses are the primary mechanism used by many universities for integratingcommunication, and teamwork skills and social, economic, and ethical issues into theengineering curriculum 2. The capstone concept has been extended by other schools such as theDesign4Practice program at Northern Arizona University and the projects program at WorcesterPolytechnic Institute 3-5 in which dedicated design courses are integrated into all four years of theundergraduate curriculum. Improvements in student performance following capstone programshave been observed in several

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Electr-Mech ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Clifford Mirman

Session 1648 An Engineering Technology Capstone Course Which Integrates Theory, Design, and Construction in an Open-Ended Project By Cliff R. Mirman, Professor and Chair Department of Technology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Ill. 60115 Abstract The culminating experience in many engineering technology programs is typically aone or two-semester capstone design experience. The underlying premise for this type ofsenior design course is that at the submission of the final

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Information/Computer ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sam Geonetta

to specific projects. All faculty are available as potential advisorsbecause no specific assignments are made until the end of the course. This allows learners tohave the widest access to faculty to bring multiple points of view to bear on proposed projects.Course Requirements: Senior Design I Senior Design I is the first of three courses that focus on a capstone experience. Theoverall capstone experience requires independent work on a project through three phases:Feasibility (conception), Functionality (design), and Implementation. Projects are required tocombine at least two areas in the Information Technology Program: Software Development,Networking, Web Technologies, Database or Digital Media. Topics are selected by learners

Conference Session

SE Capstone Design Projects, Part I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Stansbury, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Jayson F. Clifford; Michael P. Dop, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

and systems engineering communities have defined a large number of processes thatcan be characterized by models such as the waterfall model, v-model, spiral model, etc10. Thesemodels include large monolithic requirements and design activities with feedback loops. Someimplementations such as the Team Software Process6,7 cause a significant amount of overheadfor students from stringent requirements in documentation and data logging. Unfortunately,during a capstone design project in which students are working with new tools, programminglanguages, multidisciplinary domains, etc., they often encounter setbacks, requirements changes,and design changes because they are learning. More traditional processes do not lend themselvesto change.An agile

Conference Session

Project-Based Education in Energy Curriculum

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G. Belu, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

AC 2011-400: RENEWABLE ENERGY BASED CAPSTONE SENIOR DE-SIGN PROJECTS FOR AN UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING TECH-NOLOGY CURRICULUMRadian G. Belu, Drexel University (Tech.) Dr. Radian Belu is Assistant Professor within the Engineering Technology (ET) program - Drexel Uni- versity, Philadelphia, USA. He holding the second position as Research Assistant Professor at Desert Re- search Institute, Reno, Nevada. Before joining to the Drexel University Dr. Belu hold faculty and research positions at universities and research institutes in Romania, Canada and United States. He also worked for several years in industry as a project manager and senior consultant. He has taught and developed undergraduate and graduate courses in

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 7

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Latorre, University of Florida; Elizabeth Louise Meier, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

Paper ID #39686Evaluating Student Project Choice, Course Satisfaction, and Performancebetween Community Service, Internal Projects, and Industry-SponsoredProjects in a Multidisciplinary Industry-Sponsored Capstone ProgramEdward Latorre, University of Florida Dr. Edward Latorre-Navarro is the Director of the Integrated Product and Process Design (IPPD) program within the Department of Engineering Education at the University of Florida. He joined UF from his pre- vious role as Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo. As an educator, he is interested in improving the academic experience

Conference Session

EMD Technical Session 1: Captstone, Ethics, and Statistical Methods

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cole Shannon, South Dakota State University; Patrick Lovrien, South Dakota State University; Bret Barnett, South Dakota State University; Carrie Steinlicht, South Dakota State University; Ekaterina Koromyslova, South Dakota State University

skills. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Multidisciplinary Capstone Design Experiences: Students’ Perspective AbstractIt is common practice for authors to study engineering education projects where authors proposea theoretical framework for a teaching approach, collect and interpret data and students’feedback, and report findings through the prism of their understanding of theory andimplications. The approach taken in this paper is different. This paper is prepared by studentswho participated in a multidisciplinary capstone project, and it

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering Economy into Curricula

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Dixon, East Carolina University; Joseph Wilck IV, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

Paper ID #8760Integrating Economic Analysis into Capstone DesignDr. Gene Dixon, East Carolina University Gene Dixon is an Associate Professor at East Carolina where he teaches aspiring engineers at the under- graduate level. Previously he has held positions of responsibility in industry with Union Carbide, Chicago Bridge & Iron, E.I. DuPont & deNemours, Westinghouse Electric, CBS, Viacom and Washington Group. Positions include project engineer, program assessor, senior shift manager, TQM coach, and production reactor outage planner. He received a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering and Engineering Man

Conference Session

New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson

capstone course, and for this course projects are selected to build,or perform significant upgrades on a production machine. The end use of these machines is theeducation laboratory. This simplifies the task for students to define the scope of the project, as they havesome experience in the application.Since the focus of the course is plastic manufacturing systems, projects are machines that incorporatesome manufacturing process, such as injection molding, blow molding, extrusion, or bow molding.Figure 3 illustrates a typical project. The basis for this project was a small injection moldermanufactured by Arburg in the 1970’s. Students were charged with renovating the machine to includeadding modern controls, rebuilding the hydraulic system, adding

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Martin T. Hagan; Carl D. Latino

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings 1 Most capstone design courses achieve only a few of these desired results. In order for students to learnall of these important skills, the course must have certain characteristics, First, the projects must involve real-world problems; they must be challenging but doable. Second, the projects need to be organized into teams,with good supervision and guidance for each team. Third, and most importantly, there must be a firmperformance requirement. Unless the students are aware that performance, and not just effort (which isdifficult, if not impossible, to quantify), will be the

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott F. Kiefer, York College of Pennsylvania; Tristan M. Ericson, York College of Pennsylvania

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

interests are vibrations of mechanical systems and planetary gear dynamics. Page 26.324.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Capstone Design Assessment and Student MotivationAbstract This paper presents the ongoing development of student assessment strategies, and howthey affect student motivation and satisfaction, in a mechanical engineering capstone coursesequence. The capstone sequence discussed contains large scale projects consisting of ten totwenty students broken into smaller subgroups with specific tasks. Because the capstonesequence is a requirement for all

Collection

2015 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

R. Alan Cheville; Michael S. Thompson

Developing Representations to Scaffold Capstone Design R. Alan Cheville, Michael S. Thompson Bucknell UniversityThis presentation discusses how representations—methods for how ideas are expressed—havebeen incorporated into a capstone design project in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Overthe past several years the authors have been developing methods that effectively represent thedesign process. This work discusses how four different representations were implemented in thefirst semester of a one year capstone design course to allow student teams to self-manage aproject in the second semester. The four representations are: 1) A functional abstraction that

Conference Session

ME Division 11: Beyond the Build: Communication, Collaboration, and Reflection

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David R Mikesell P.E., Ohio Northern University; J. Blake Hylton, Ohio Northern University; Joshua Gargac, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

evaluations are a very standard part of monitoring the efficacy of university instructorsand provide instructors with valuable feedback for improving their own performance and theexperience of students.1 The instruments to evaluate standard academic courses, however welldesigned and validated they may be for that task, do not typically serve well to evaluate how theadvisors of senior design (capstone) project teams perform their duties. Yet the same courseevaluation instrument is often applied to capstone project advisors by default, since capstone istypically listed and registered as an academic course.The idea of the modern capstone project largely emerged in the 1980’s, rapidly accelerating inadoption through the end of the millennium and reaching

Collection

2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Tristan Ericson; Scott Kiefer

Capstone Design Assessment and Student Motivation Tristan Ericson, Scott Kiefer, York College of Pennsylvania, Mechanical Engineering type of project is the design and build of a car to complete in Abstract— This paper presents the ongoing the Society of Automotive Engineers Formula Collegiatedevelopment of student assessment strategies, and how they Design Competition (FSAE)2.affect student motivation and satisfaction, in a mechanical While there is some overlap, the first semester of theengineering capstone course sequence. The capstone sequence

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Roy McGrann

Capstone Design: Sculpture and Structure Roy McGrann, Gary Mackiewicz, Jacquelyn Walsh, Katherine Williams, Jill Griffin/Yvonne Hobbs/and Margaret Crocker Binghamton University / Sculptor /The Discovery CenterAbstract Obtaining funding for senior design projects can be a challenge. This paper presents anexample of a community and university project for which the funding was obtained from acharitable foundation. The project was successfully completed as one of the projects in theinterdisciplinary capstone design course at Binghamton University (SUNY). The Discovery Center, which is a hands-on children’s

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Speakman; Joel Perlin; Daniel Pack; Barry Mullins

Session 2793 Senior Capstone Design Experience: Hovering Robot Joel P. Perlin, Daniel J. Pack, Barry E. Mullins, and Richard E. Speakman Department of Electrical Engineering United States Air Force Academy, COAbstractThe paper describes the collective experience of a student and three mentors in creating ahovering robot in a year-long senior design project course. We present the tasks involved inidentifying requirements, generating specifications, designing the overall system, implementing thedesign, and testing and integrating subsystems. We consider the system

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Monte Tull; Gerald Crain

industry sponsored design in the course implementation.A. Introduction:The Capstone experience is an ideal opportunity for Seniors to apply their design skill and tolearn management skills with which to control the design1,2,3 . The learning experience has beenshown to be multiplied by exercising creative alternatives in a structured environment4,5 . TheSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Oklahoma (OU) usesa process to help transition their design perspective from an answer-driven arena to a creative,needs-based, project environment. Industry sponsorship of Capstone projects provides a uniqueopportunity for students to begin working under practicing engineers. We impose designmanagement processes that simulate

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fernando Romero Galvao, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Luciana Debs, Purdue University Programs

Paper ID #36430The Capstone Course – A New ApproachFernando Romero Galvao Prof. Romero has been working globally as a Construction Project and Program Director. The knowledge acquired over his career of more than 30 years, opened doors for him to have an international career in the area of project management working in several countries, including Japan, China, South Korea, Austria, Germany, Greece, Cyprus, Suriname, Venezuela, Peru, and Brazil. While his professional career permitted him to manage projects covering the full scope of construction and with a value of more than $18.5 billion, he also possesses wide

Conference Session

The Senior Experience: Capstone and Beyond

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Niehaus, University of Cincinnati; Anant Kukreti, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

topics intended to guide students in their senior capstone design project andas they approach their transition from student to young engineers beginning a professionalcareer. Expert practitioners, some of whom are part of the IDS industry advisory team, areinvited to give one-hour seminars on following topics: • Introduction to the IDS Project Selected Page 11.1008.5 • Writing Reports and Giving Presentations • Environmental and Permitting Aspects of the Project Table 1. Suggested Outline for Final Report • Title page with date • Cover letter (from team to client) • Acknowledgements

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Design Methodology

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa A. Shay PE, U.S. Military Academy; Tanya Thais Estes, United States Military Academy; David Paul Harvie, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

encouraged to work on projects, papers,or other academic exercises that require extended periods of deep and sustained thought.The next section describes our capstone design course, followed by an explanation of eachreflection experience in the context of the design process. We then present a quantitative andqualitative summary of the results of these changes. Our conclusions are offered in the finalsection. Appendices contain rubrics of the reflection exercises.Capstone Design Course StructureThe authors have designed and offered a two-semester multidisciplinary engineering designcourse within the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department at WestPoint. EECS includes three ABET-accredited majors: Electrical Engineering, Computer

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

includes a beta-version of a faculty handbook for ageneral engineering undergraduate program.IntroductionPaliwal and Sepahpour1 suggest that the capstone process causes students to think aboutengineering, technology, society, the world around them and themselves. According to Paretti, etal.2, capstone projects afford engineering students an opportunity to integrate the disparatecomponents of technical knowledge gained in an academic environment where courses arepresented as standalone bodies of knowledge. As a culminating experience, senior capstone is asingular significant experience where students: apply and reinforce the knowledge, skills andabilities (KSAs) learned from course work; enhance communication KSAs; developinterpersonal KSAs

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

engineering from Auburn University. He has authored several book chapters and articles on follower component of leadership and is active in research on the leadership processes. Page 25.610.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Capstone Project Problem StatementsFormulating a project problem statement can be a challenge for the capstone student. A reviewof capstone related literature indicates similar-not identical-approach to design that includevarious concepts of what is a problem statement, their development, evaluation and assessment.The literature focus is

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha W. Ostheimer; Elmer Grubbs

Session 3232 Real World Capstone Design Course Elmer Grubbs, Martha W. Ostheimer The University of ArizonaAbstractRecent feedback from industry and our alumni indicates that graduating engineers need betterpreparation in solving open-ended problems, thinking "outside the box", working in teams, andin developing strong communication skills. In response to this feedback, as well as ABETProgram Outcomes Requirements, we redesigned our senior capstone course to include realworld and multidisciplinary technical projects proposed and sponsored by eleven companies