onlinestudents to work with students enrolled in a synchronous online section. The activities createdfor this project are grounded in the research literature on student engagement.Active LearningSeveral engineering educators regard experiential learning as the best way to train the nextgeneration of engineers3. This requires engineering programs to go beyond offering industry-based capstone courses and internships. It is our belief that introducing students to activelearning opportunities can improve software engineering education at the undergraduate level aswell. We believe this will also increase the pool of new professionals with practical engineeringproblem-solving skills.Active learning is “embodied in a learning environment where the teachers and
curriculum.Each student’s curriculum begins with the same foundational EE coursework, but theexperiential learning activity and subsequent course elections vary according to their interests.Student 1 researches neural biosensors, then she enrolls in the sensors and microsystemstechnical track; Student 2 co-ops at Intel, assisting in the development of a specializedmicroprocessor, then he enrolls in courses in the computing and embedded systems technicaltrack; and Student 3 collects data from local schools to improve education in Ghana whilestudying abroad there, then he elects to take courses in data analytics. The three collaborate on asenior capstone project that requires their collective expertise to develop a wearablephysiological monitor for
Page 26.518.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Development of a Ball-and-Plate SystemAbstractThis paper presents the development of a dynamic ball-and-plate system successfully completedfor a one-semester Senior Capstone Design project. A group of five undergraduate studentsdeveloped the project concept and constructed a prototype within a semester, integrating majormechatronics engineering concepts learned in classes. The three-degree-of-freedom systemconsists of sensors, actuators, and controls to keep a free rolling ball in a desired position on aflat plate, accounting for any possible external disturbances. Due to its complexity, multiple stepswere taken to solve the
6b: A 3D printed smartphone stand designed by a freshman4. Applications in Research, Community Engagement and Outreacha. Utilizing AM in Student Research through Senior Design Capstone CourseEngineering technology curriculum of the Department of ENT at Miami University, Ohioincludes a capstone course, which consists of a sequence of two semester-long courses namely:ENT 497-Senior Design Project I and ENT 498-Senior Design Project II. The students conductmajor open-ended research and design projects utilizing their knowledge and skills acquired inearlier course work, work in teams, and incorporate engineering standards. The projects offeredin this course are chosen from real-world problems. Design projects include the establishment
transformation is toattract and retain traditionally underrepresented groups to engineering, particularly women, and in effect,increase departmental diversity.To achieve the goal of more women engineers, the CECM department will take advantage of, and betteralign itself with the existing experiential learning nature of its sister programs on campus andbeyond. This will include common coursework at the freshman level in the first year experience (FYE)courses, at the sophomore level in the surveying courses, at the junior level in the construction economicsand finance courses, and at the senior level in the capstone senior project course. Further, the proposedexperiential, community service learning activities with Habitat for Humanity of Bulloch County
-Based-Learning (PBL) for skillsdevelopment, motivation, and retention (both in terms of students staying in the major and interms of retaining learned skills) of engineering students. While all students take design coursesleading to their senior capstone projects, they do not all build prototypes of their work. Typically,in naval architecture and marine engineering programs, PBL projects focus on building smallmodels due to time, space, and cost issues with using full-scale vessels. Exceptions to thisapproach are taken at two colleges, where students may take elective courses that feature full-scale construction of 10-15 ft long plywood craft. At the United States Coast Guard Academy(USCGA), the first-year, 1-credit, course introduces
capstone projects. We have noticed gaps instudents’ software engineering abilities when they begin their capstone projects. It is not alwaysthe case that students were not exposed to the necessary concepts in previous courses, but ratherthey that were not asked to apply these skills in project settings. In the past, instructors (andemployers) have relied on just-in-time learning to fill in the conceptual gaps students have whenthey begin project work.Several engineering educators regard experiential learning as the best way to train the nextgeneration of engineers. This requires engineering programs to go beyond offering industry-based capstone courses and internships. It is our belief that introducing active learningopportunities prior to the
. We discuss specific waysto leverage the information gathered in these surveys for course launch, providing one-on-onecare even in large classes, and fostering community. We present observations from deploying these surveys in several different courses in-cluding a first-year engineering course, a junior-level project-based computer science andengineering course, and a senior capstone design course. Impact demonstration will be inthe form of specific applications where the authors used survey results to best design teams,build connections within and across the student community, and to determine the level ofscaffolding needed to address survey-identified student knowledge and skill set challenges
education levels and make the field accessible for more populations.Dr. Sheryl A. Sorby, University of Cincinnati Dr. Sheryl Sorby is currently a Professor of STEM Education at the University of Cincinnati and was recently a Fulbright Scholar at the Dublin Institute of Technology in Dublin, Ireland. She is a professor emerita of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering MecDr. Betsy M. Aller, Western Michigan University Betsy M. Aller is Associate Professor Emerita in Engineering Design, Manufacturing, and Management Systems. At Western Michigan University, she coordinated and taught capstone design courses for 20 years, and developed courses in sustainability and project management. Her focus was on students’ professional
relate to potential internship and professionalemployers. Although guided at arms-length by industry-experienced staff, the overwhelmingemphasis was for the Engineering Team to reach their own designs, experience their own failuresand successes in earning their own know-how, resolve their own communications and schedulingconflicts, and to respond to customer critical comments of prototype product performance.The spirit of this project is in line with previous successful efforts to expose students to“authentic” engineering experiences and environments through, for example, Service Learning[1], Learning Factories [2], Capstone Projects [3], hands-on 1st-Year Engineering Courses,Learning in Laboratory Settings [4], and Engineering courses featuring
be continuing to develop new ways to fund these experiences and working withother collaborators to continue to add value to the exhibits.ReferencesChua, K. (2014). A comparative study on first-time and experienced project-based learning students in an engineering design module. European Journal of Engineering Education, 39, 556-572.Dunlap, J. C. (2005). Problem-based learning and self-efficacy: How a capstone course prepares students for a profession. Educational Technology Research and Development, (1), 65-85.Fitzgerald, H., Bruns, K., Sonka, S., Furco, A., & Swanson, L. (2015). The centrality of engagement in higher education. APLU Council on Engagement and Outreach. Retrieved from http
. Junior internship – continue to learn about BHI and take a course for credit that is taught jointly by BHI engineer and FM. Identify capstone project. Senior internship – take a course for credit that is taught jointly by BHI engineer and FM, plus identify and work on MS project. Fifth year at OU – Work on BHI MS project under supervision of FM and BHM / BHI engineers. Fourth and fifth years: The BHS’s degree plan is jointly worked out by mentors (BHM and FM). Students are provided the opportunity to take customized courses: - Three graduate courses from Petroleum Engineering for ME students and a like number from AME for the PE students. - Graduate electives - Up to two graduate
to be implemented during the study abroadprogram and to identify appropriate projects for students to collaborate on, 2 faculty membersfrom the University of Dar es Salam, Tanzania (UDSM) were invited to James MadisonUniversity (JMU) in 2017. During their visit, they had meetings with relevant administrators andfaculty, toured facilities, engaged with engineering classes, had formal and informal meetingswith engineering students and participated in workshops. They also took the opportunity to visitsregional sites to develop a deeper appreciation of the social context in which American studentslive and study. The visiting faculty worked with JMU faculty to develop goals and scope for anengineering capstone design project for our respective
and solutions in terms of value creation; apply creative thinking toambiguous problems; demonstrate resourcefulness and collaborate in a team setting. Anadditional objective for each of these projects was to help students synthesize knowledge gainedfrom various separate chapters in a given unit or over the course of the semester and to relate thisinformation in a practical manner to a real world Biomaterial problem. Each of the fourassignments embedded multiple ACL techniques such as jigsaw (expert teams) and think-pair-share.Mini-Project1 - Bonding, Crystal Structure, Slip, Crystallographic Defects and Properties:The first Mini-Project was designed to occur at the end of the first unit and to serve as a“capstone” assignment to the unit prior
Paper ID #42590Board 316: Innovation Self-Efficacy: Empowering Environmental EngineeringStudents to InnovateDr. Azadeh Bolhari, University of Colorado Boulder Dr. Bolhari is a professor of environmental engineering in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her teaching focuses on fate and transport of contaminants, capstone design and aqueous chemistry. Dr. Bolhari is passionate about broadening participation in engineering through community-based participatory action research. Her research interests explore the boundaries of engineering and social
blue), and thenreformed into seven groups for a project on ASGM (in green). In the second phase, duringSpring semester 2019, these students are developing projects to compete in the GSIC. Some tookclasses on related topics, and some were even able to make their ASGM work count as a requiredsenior capstone project. Of the original seven teams whose work on ASGM we document here,three began to develop projects in Phase 2. Eventually all but one group dropped out of the GSICexperience. Nonetheless, all three groups will be involved in Phase 3 as students travel toColombia to engage members of ASGM communities in person.Context: ASGM and the Complex Risks Associated With ItIn 2017, Colombia was among the top 20 gold producing nations of the world
the summer prior tostarting at the university. These activities include a summer bridge program, a freshmanengineering success program, an introduction to engineering design course, a guaranteed paidinternship program, a service-learning project, two professional development seminars, and anenhanced capstone experience. In addition, students are supported by peer, faculty, and industrymentors.MotivationThe challenge of recruiting and graduating low-income engineering students is multi-faceted. Ofparticular importance to the University of Illinois at Chicago as a Minority Serving Institution, isthat racial and ethnic minoritized are often also low-income students. Solutions have focusedprimarily on broadening access via outreach, aggressive
. However, as a pilot, the sample limited generalizability; thecurrent study addresses this limitation. We used a national cohort that included multipleengineering disciplines (biomedical, mechanical, chemical, electrical, computer, aerospace),types of formal design projects (e.g., first-year, design-spine, senior capstone) and institutiontypes, including private religious; Hispanic-serving; public land-grant; and research flagshipinstitutions (N=449). We report sample characteristics and used confirmatory factor analysis(CFA) to provide validity evidence, reporting the chi-square and standardized root mean squareresidual as estimates of fit. We report Cronbach’s alpha as a measure of internal consistency.We found that overall, the CFA aligned with
) water use minimization orrecycling; and (4) harsh or hazardous chemical or catalyst substitution. Once students areintroduced to these concepts, they are expected to incorporate them to the extent applicable intheir chemical process selected for the capstone design experience in Design III. The fourthconcept of hazardous chemical substitution has rarely been implemented based on theinstructor’s experience in the senior design courses, since this tends to be more in the purview ofchemical product development rather than chemical process formulation and simulation. The listof chemical processes offered to students for their senior design project topic are commonly bulkorganic chemical production processes that typically include reactor conditions
crane (emulator) tocontrol the movement of the larger crane. The larger crane is controlled by an NXT brick and the smallcrane is controlled by an Arduino microcontroller. Communication with the NXT brick and theArduino microcontroller is through Bluetooth communication technology. Page 26.1114.22. Candy Crane Design ProjectIt started as a challenge to a group of experienced students, who had worked in the mechatronicstechnology center at the college for two year, on whether they can build a functional CandyCrane one month before the 2012 New York Maker Faire. It was later adopted as one of thedesign projects in a capstone course called
Paper ID #43262Board 130: An International, Bilingual Engineering Design Course: Faculty/StudentExperiences and Lessons LearnedDr. Jorge Ivan Rodriguez-Devora, University of Georgia Dr. Rodriguez serves as the industry capstone project coordinator for the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia. He is a faculty member of the School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural and Mechanical Engineering.David Emory Stooksbury, University of Georgia I am an atmospheric scientist with a background in agriculture, astrophysics, and applied statistics that turned up in an engineering program. My major engineering
ofinterdisciplinarity and stakeholder engagement. We will close with both a section on “lessonslearned” throughout this process, as well as a section on the “deliverables” that have emergedfrom this process thus far. These ‘deliverables’ tie to benefits that, we believe, will enhancecareer preparation for students.theories of interdisciplinaritySeveral theories could have supported our work on developing a program in SocialEntrepreneurship. We are aware of the literature suggesting that theories of community-engagement (Tekic et al., 2022; Wallerstein et al. 2020), and even collaborative building () couldhave been used to guide this project. However, the development of this project was madepossible by a grant from funders who have a particular interest in
several mid-curriculum projects have moved into this space, along with multiple senior capstone projects,bringing about inter-cohort interactions and developing a social hub for the department, as wellas facilitating course activities.In this work, we report on the detailed design of this learning environment, and the lessonslearned in the creation of such a multi-use space, specifically for the needs of chemicalengineering students and curriculum. We report on how the transition of our first-year designcourse to this new layout appears to have impacted multiple metrics: student trainings andlaboratory skill acquisition, student course performance, team evaluations, course and instructorevaluations, and more. Finally, because the space combines a
Paper ID #11724The Impact of Personal Interactions on the Experience of African-AmericanMales on Multiracial Student TeamsMs. Kelly J Cross, Virginia Tech Ms. Cross earned her Bachelor’s of Science in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University in 2007. She earned her Master’s of Science in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Cincin- nati in 2011. Ms. Cross is currently completing her studies in the Engineering Education PhD program at Virginia Tech and involved with multiple educational research projects with faculty and graduate students. Her research interests include diversity and inclusion
goal, it is difficult to quantify its efficacy byitself. Unfortunately, we do not have data showing the rates of students who go on forfurther education for students involved in this program compared to the broader group ofstudents in CTE.The following positive anecdotal experience is offered from one IHS student. David had alove affair with cars, so when he enrolled at IHS on San Jose’s East Side, he went directlyto the highly- regarded automotive technology class. In addition to learning aboutmechanical and electrical components in cars, David participated in a near-peer mentoringprogram where students from his class worked with SJSU Mechanical Engineeringstudents completing their senior design capstone projects. David was inspired. He
courses potentially be integrated?All stakeholders were also asked to consider the existing capstone course and how improvementscould be made. A member of the taskforce attended each consultation session to track thediscussion so that recommendations could be collated and integrated across all groups.Based on the aggregate consultation outcomes, the taskforce highlighted the following prioritiesfor action:• Highlight course differences between the software engineering program and the computer science program, including the application of software design principles and modern project management• Acknowledge the changing nature of software engineering and how content may need to adapt rapidly o Course descriptions should not focus
be valuable activities for discovering career paths, acquiring full time jobs, and gaining orimproving professional career skills [23]. Internships may also positively affect outcomes withinother HIP, such as capstone projects [24]. Internships have been reported to improve theautonomy and technology, methodology, and project management skills of computer sciencestudents [24]. In engineering, underrepresented students reported that internships supported theirprofessional career goals by providing opportunities for them to apply theory to practice inauthentic industry environments [25]. In engineering and computer science programs, it is important for students to envision the linkbetween theoretical course work and real-world practice. Senior
energy and promoting diversity and international education between 1998-2012. He served on multiple U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) FOAs merit project proposal committees since 2013.Paul Aden Paschal, Sam Houston State University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Design and Construction of a Solar Powered Automated Chicken Coop1. IntroductionThe senior design project is a capstone project course taken in the final year of the Electronics andComputer Engineering Technology (ECET) program at Sam Houston State University (SHSU).Introduction of renewable energy applications to engineering technology curriculum at SHSU hasimpacted students, faculty, and university community very positively and
exams, project reports, and lab reports [4,10]. Less commonly used butalso notable assessment tools are oral presentations and exhibitions, most often used forexperiential or real-world infusion projects and capstone courses [11]. Concept maps have beeninvestigated as potential assessment items for both undergraduate and postgraduate courses [12],and while they are effective at demonstrating understanding of fundamental concepts andrelations they do not necessarily demonstrate an ability to apply the knowledge in a relevantsituation.Some work has been done on the usefulness of assessment as an ongoing learning tool, oftencaptured under the umbrella of assessment for learning [13]. It has been noted than assessmentcan be used to enrich learning
president of EWU’s SAE Motor Sports club and a student member of both SME and ASME.Ms. Shannon M. KellamJacob StewartDr. Robert E. Gerlick, Eastern Washington University Dr. Gerlick is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Technology at Eastern Washington University. He teaches courses in the areas of Robotics, Mechanics, Thermodynam- ics, Fluids, CAD, and Capstone Design.Dr. B. Matthew Michaelis, Eastern Washington University Matthew Michaelis is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Technology at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, WA. His research interests include additive manufacturing, advanced CAD modeling, and engineering pedagogy