Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Design I

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin Goldschneider, Virginia Tech; Nicole P. Pitterson, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

projects in a collaborative environment. Yet, anoverwhelming majority of programs do not provide students with the chance to workcooperatively across disciplinary lines. Those that do typically only allow for interactionbetween groups within the same overarching discipline such as Mechanical or ElectricalEngineering. Ideally, the capstone experience is meant to foreshadow the type of interaction andwork that a student will engage in, easing their transition into the work environment followinggraduation. In industry, engineers are expected to work collaboratively with experts in severaltechnical and non-technical domains. Subsequently, capstone classes are lacking the ability toprepare undergraduate students for membership on the interdisciplinary

Conference Session

Cross-Section of Construction Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Cecere

Capstone Course in Construction Management Joseph J. Cecere , Ph.D., CPC Pennsylvania State University/ HarrisburgABSTRACTCapstone courses offered in most construction engineering programs are designed to pull together much of whatthe student has already learned in previous courses. This will enable the student to gain an appreciation of howthe different aspects of a construction project come together. The course is not an in depth study of any onefunction or technical aspect, but rather a synergistic overview of the project

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 4: Junior & Senior Year Curriculum

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura P. Ford, The University of Tulsa; Jennifer Cole, Northwestern University; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Bruce K. Vaughen, American Institute of Chemical Engineers; Marnie V. Jamieson, University of Alberta, Canada; Luke Landherr, Northeastern University; David L. Silverstein, P.E., University of Kentucky; Troy J. Vogel, University of Notre Dame; Christy Wheeler West, University of South Alabama; Stephen W. Thiel, University of Cincinnati

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

. Someinstitutions (20%) have design courses throughout the curriculum in addition to the capstonedesign sequence, but more programs (40%) have design projects within non-design coursesthroughout the curriculum. The course or courses in the capstone design sequence are primarilyoffered only once a year (78%) with a slight edge to the spring semester/winter quarter (80%)over the fall semester/quarter (72%). Most institutions (78%) include instruction in software orprogramming as part of the course(s). The culminating design project is most often a theoreticaldesign (68%) as opposed to one based on experiments (3%) or resulting in a prototype (7%), andmost institutions do not use the AIChE Design Competition problems (70%). Professional skillsare mainly

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques in Graphics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Lumsdaine, Michigan Technological University

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Engineering Design Graphics

. Page 12.419.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Creative Problem Solving in Capstone DesignAbstractThis paper describes the 2006/07 capstone design course at Michigan Technological University,which had 121 students assigned to 24 project teams. The teams were formed based on theHerrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI) results, sponsor requirements, student GPA andspecial qualifications. During the first semester, the emphasis of the course was on creativeproblem solving, team building, and learning the 12-step design process with the associateddocumentation and thinking skills. During the second semester, the emphasis shifted to designfor X. Other topics covered were prototyping, optimization and quality

Collection

2020 ASEE North Central Section conference

Authors

Raghu Echempati P.E., Kettering University

classes, and to what extent it helps students tomeet their objectives and quality of their project work. Since our university operates on a quarteracademic system, each course needs to be completed in just 11 weeks. The number of membersin each group of a capstone is either 3 or 4. One example of the project dealing with anautomated bed clearing mechanism of a 3D printing machine is presented in this paper. A groupof 4 students developed two ideas of this system. The design details of one of these ideas ispresented in this paper. The 3D printer in this example uses Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM)process. Many automotive, aerospace and other sectors are focusing on using functional 3Dprinted parts to either reduce the weight or to replace metal

Conference Session

CE Capstone: Innovations in Learning & Assessment

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael McGinnis, University of Texas, Tyler; Ronald Welch, University of Texas, Tyler

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Civil Engineering

AC 2010-2132: CAPSTONES WITH AN INDUSTRY MODELMichael McGinnis, University of Texas, Tyler Dr. Michael McGinnis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Tyler. He received his BS and MS in Civil Engineering from the University of Connecticut and his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University. His research interests include fire behavior of structures and non-structural materials, nondestructive evaluation and K-12 math and science education.Ronald Welch, University of Texas, Tyler Ronald W. Welch is Professor and Chair for the Department of Civil Engineering at The University of Texas at Tyler in Tyler, Texas. Until Jan 2007

Conference Session

DEED Technical Session 1: Adapting to COVID and other Design Challenges

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heather Orser; Tiffany Ling, University of St. Thomas

led a team of engineers in continuously improving and supporting the supply chain and process flow of pressure sensor manufacturing lines. At the University of St Thomas, she teaches Introduction to Engineering and Senior Design. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Enduring Pandemic Impacts on Capstone CourseAbstractThe capstone experience at the University of St Thomas (UST) is a two-semester courseintegrated across four disciplines: mechanical, electrical, computer, and civil engineering. Withinthe course students design, analyze, finalize, and verify a company sponsored project. The resultsof projects are

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert H. Mayer

opportunitiessuch as birdwatching, fishing, and hunting. For better or worse, natural wetlands have also beenused for wastewater discharge. Even so, drainage and filling of wetlands, principally foragricultural use, were common practices 2. Fortunately, increased public awareness of wetlandfunctions and values led to the “no net loss of wetlands” policies of the Bush and ClintonAdministrations. Today, engineers will find it useful and often necessary to include wetlandsrestoration and conservation among project objectives.Accordingly, instruction in wetlands function awareness and design procedures has been intro-duced in the ocean engineering curriculum at the U.S. Naval Academy. Also, capstone designprojects have been initiated which include wetlands

Collection

2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Todd W Polk, University of Texas at Dallas; Robert Hart P.E., University of Texas at Dallas

of Texas at Dallas (UTD). He teaches the capstone design course sequence and serves as a Director for the UTDesign program, which facilitates corporate sponsorship of capstone projects and promotes re-source sharing and cross-disciplinary collaboration among engineering departments. Upon joining UTD in 2012, he developed the capstone design course sequence in the newly-formed mechanical engineering department and has been responsible for teaching it since. In 2017, he was a recipient of a University of Texas System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award. His professional interests are in the areas of engineering education, fluid mechanics, and thermal science. Robert is an active member of ASEE and the Capstone

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone Design

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Thomas Emison, Taylor University; Kate Yoshino, Taylor University; Stephen Edward Straits, Taylor University; Hank D. Voss, Taylor University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

: stephen straits@taylor.eduDr. Hank D. Voss, Taylor University Dr. Hank D. Voss received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois in 1977.He then worked for Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratories prior to coming to Taylor University in 1994. He is currently a Professor of Engineering and Physics at Taylor University. Some of the courses that he reg- ularly has taught include Principles of Engineering, Intro to Electronics, Statics, Advanced Electronics, Jr. Engineering Projects, FE Review, Control Systems, Fundamentals of Space Flight Systems, Astronomy, and Sr. Capstone Sequence. He enjoys mentoring undergraduate students in aerospace, sensors, and energy-related research projects. Some of

Conference Session

Capstone Courses and Design Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bobby G. Crawford, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Undergraduate Capstone Design: Inductively EnhancedAbstractThe Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy atWest Point, New York requires its graduates to complete an integrative, year-long capstonedesign during their senior year. One of the capstone projects available to the mechanicalengineering students in the department’s aerospace sub-discipline requires the design,construction, testing, and demonstration of a small, highly autonomous Uninhabited AerialVehicle (UAV) for a Department of Defense client. This particular project was added to the listof available capstone options in the fall of 2005

Collection

2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Norman D. Dennis

. While Jenkins, et.al.,(2002) describe a two-semestersequenced capstone experience that requires the technical work to be performed in the firstsemester, while professional issues are dealt with in the second semester. Farr, 2001 advocatesusing project based design experiences where the student must prepare a real product for a realclient. Still others, (Kolar(2000), Wood et.al.,2001) suggest an integrated and systematicapproach to design which spans the entire four year curriculum. In the Civil Engineeringprogram at the University of Arkansas the culminating design experience prescribed in Criteria 4has been satisfied with a course titled Senior Design, CVEG 4494, a four credit hour, singlesemester course dedicated to a culminating design

Conference Session

Laboratories

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Schmaltz; Christopher Byrne; Joel Lenoir; Robert Choate

the results of their work. In an analogousfashion to the capstone design project providing a measure of the students’ ability to perform adesign project, the capstone experimental experience requires that student teams demonstrate theapplication of experimental abilities to set up and analyze less-defined experimental problems.To assist in the organization of course content and its assessment, the following six componentshave been used to define design of experiments 2, 3: 1. Experimental Planning 2. Methods of Measurement 3. Selection of Instrumentation 4. Analysis of Data and Results 5. Uncertainty Analysis

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Don Dekker, University of South Florida; Stephen Sundarrao, University of South Florida; Rajiv Dubey, University of South Florida

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Design in Engineering Education

Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Capstone Design Courses: Content RecognitionIntroduction:The Capstone Design course at The University of South Florida brings realistic designexperiences into the academic environment. The course is completed in each of the two 15 weeksemesters. The students do all of the design phases: define the project, conceptual design,embodiment design and detail design, plus other experiences, such as report writing, makingdrawings, and presentation skills. In addition, the students read and discuss two engineeringethics case studies, are instructed in Pro-Engineer, and have lectures on several pertinent topics,such as patents and licensing, entrepreneurship, professionalism, and safety. The

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ben David Lutz, Virginia Tech; Mike Ekoniak, Virginia Tech; Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; Courtney S Smith-Orr, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #11556Student Perspectives on Capstone Design LearningMr. Ben David Lutz, Virginia Tech Ben Lutz is a PhD student in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. His research interests include capstone design teaching and learning, mentoring in design and project work, student experiences of senior design, and the transition from senior design into the workplace. His current work is related to understanding how students describe their own learning in capstone and how that learning supports the transition from engineering school to professional practice.Mr. Mike Ekoniak, Virginia TechDr. Marie C

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sig Lillevik

Industry representatives very helpful Student’s first large-scope project in team environmentIndustry Representative Founder’s Day presentations comparable to a technical conferenceEvaluation Not sure how “hard” to push student team Design process very similar to real-lifeStudent comments range widely but, overall, they feel that the capstone design sequence is avaluable learning experience. For many, it is the first time they have taken on a significantproject and, as a result, it is the first time they have integrated the skills learned in their earliercourses and “put it all together.” Unfortunately, students report that senior design is a difficultclass because it is

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Anders Wahlquist, US Air Force Academy; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Kristin L. Wood P.E., Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD); Kyle Fitle, U.S. Air Force Academy; David Carte, U.S. Air Force Academy

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Design in Engineering Education

of research grants.Dr. Kristin L. Wood, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)Lt. Kyle Fitle, United States Air ForceDavid Carte, United States Air Force Page 23.1327.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Using Mini Design Competitions in Capstone Courses to Teach the Design ProcessAbstractFor many senior undergraduate engineering students, the capstone design project is their firstexperience implementing the design process. As a result many capstone teams do not grasp theimportance of the early stages of the design process. To help

Conference Session

Perspectives and Approaches to Teaching Simulation and Design-Based Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Lisa G. Bullard, North Carolina State University; Warren D. Seider, University of Pennsylvania; Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

questions. Additionally, the survey seeks to bring out the most innovative and effectiveapproaches to teaching the course as cited by instructors. Comparison with a related surveyconducted in 1965 is made where appropriate.IntroductionThis survey represents the continuation of a series of surveys of undergraduate curricular topicsbegun in 1957 by the AIChE Education Projects Committee and more recently resumed by theAIChE Education Division. This paper presents the statistical and demographic results for thefourth in the series of surveys conducted by the Education Division.Survey BackgroundThe Capstone Design course is the topic of the 2012 survey. The aforementioned AIChEEducation Projects committee previously conducted a survey on the same

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kraemer; Bijan Pashaie; David Probst

engineering flavor. Another lingering concern wasthat the Engineering Physics degree, as the only engineering program at Southeast, requiresabout 12 more credit hours than most other programs on campus, which might tend to reduce itscompetitiveness when recruiting majors. In order to address these concerns, we developed asenior capstone course that has been accepted into the University Studies Program, which isSoutheast’s liberal education program. It therefore counts both in the major and for the liberaleducation program, thus reducing the total number of hours required. The course requiresstudents from at least two departments on campus to work on a project requiring expertise fromboth disciplines. In Spring 2004, in collaboration with a faculty

Conference Session

Issues in Physics and Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Probst

required about thirteen more hours thanmost others on campus, putting it at a competitive disadvantage in the recruitment of majors. Inorder to address these two issues in a novel way, we have developed an interdisciplinary seniorseminar course that is being reviewed for inclusion in the University Studies Program. Thecourse will provide a major design experience for students from at least two departments in theCollege of Science and Mathematics as they work on a project requiring expertise and facultyfrom both disciplines.This paper will describe our program, the proposed course, UI4xx Capstone Experience, how itfits into the University Studies Program, and how it fits with the objectives of ABETEngineering Criteria 2000 1 Criterion 3

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Award Committee for the Engineering Economy Division of ASEE. He has been active in leading capstone projects, capstone courses and industry-community relations for eight years. Page 24.1178.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Technical Design Reviews in Engineering CapstoneAbstractTechnical design reviews are used throughout industry to assess, question, improve and approvedesign. The review process is a frank exploration of the design efficacy. This paper reports onthe use of the industrial style technical design review or its equivalent in the

Conference Session

Student Learning Techniques & Practices in Engineering Technology

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vladimir Genis, Drexel University; Warren Rosen, Drexel University; Richard Chiou, Drexel University; William Danley, Drexel University

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Engineering Technology

laboratories were developed. A key factor in this process is the creation of theeducational laboratories that can significantly contribute to the development of technologically literatestudents and workforce that could be in great demand not only in the tri-state area but also nationwide.1,2The establishment of the state-of-the-art laboratories allows Drexel and its community college partners todevelop training options for engineering technologists located in the region’s key industries. Fourcapstone courses are described in this paper.These courses complement the Senior Design Project capstone three-term, nine credit sequence andencourage students to apply their previous knowledge and experience in solving real-world engineeringproblems and develop

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rocio Alba-Flores, University of Minnesota-Duluth; Fernando Rios-Gutierrez, University of Minnesota-Duluth

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

requirement for a capstone senior design project, byproviding a one-semester workshop alternative to the normal two-semester senior design option.The content of the course combines departmental expertise in digital system design, digital signalprocessing, power systems and control. Based on ABET’s educational outcomes, uponcompletion of the workshop students were able to: - Complete a design project that is interdisciplinary in nature, integrating the knowledge obtained in previous ECE classes - Accurate communicate his/her project results, both in written report format and in oral presentation format - Understand how teams work and how to interact in a team setting. (Understand what is like to work in industry) - Appreciate the

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technolog Programs

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mudasser Fraz Wyne, National University; Raul Soto Jr

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

lectures,interviews, events, etc. under different settings as well as use of equipment and humanresources. In current setup a request can be submitted, processed and managed manuallyby the library staff, whereas users demand a faster and a more efficient way of submittingmultimedia requests as it would produce faster turnaround times for scheduled projects.Therefore, a group of students was assigned the task, as their capstone project, toevaluate, develop and deploy an automated system to handle the flood of multimediarequests being received by library staff. In this paper we report a capstone experiencegained by undergraduate students. The students were required to design and implement aweb based system for not only handling the requisitions for

Conference Session

Capstone and Online Courses in Construction Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James W. Jones, Ball State University; Mike Mezo, Ball State University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

study for other construction engineering andmanagement programs considering enhancing or revising their own capstone courses.Capstone course overviewA well-designed construction engineering and management curriculum should build upon itselfin an interconnected and integrated process2. The capstone course in a construction program iswhere a student‟s prior coursework is wrapped up in a single, comprehensive course3. Theauthors‟ intent when creating this course was to provide as much of a realistic, team-basedsimulation of managing the construction process as was possible within a college classroomenvironment.To that end, a common project of approximately $1-7 million is used by all students, who worktogether on teams of 3-5 members each. While

Collection

2022 ASEE Gulf Southwest Annual Conference

Authors

Ramalingam Radhakrishnan

Fellowships Awards. He conducted Summer Transportation Institute at PVAMU funded for High School Students by US DOT FHWA from 2000 to 2013. He is a Fellow Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 1 Session XXXX Effective Approaches for Achieving ABET Outcomes in Capstone Design Projects in Civil Engineering Dr. Ramalingam Radhakrishnan, Professor Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Conference Session

AERO 5: Student Success

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian D. Ritchie, The Ohio State University

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Aerospace Division (AERO)

Paper ID #38658Assessment of a Distributed Implementation of the EntrepreneurialMindset in an Experimental Projects CapstoneDr. Brian D. Ritchie, The Ohio State University Dr. Ritchie is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engi- neering at The Ohio State University. He teaches a variety of courses in thermal and fluid sciences in addition to the introductory course and an experimental projects capstone sequence. He completed this work as part of his Engineering Unleashed Fellowship. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Assessment of

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 6

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Byul Hur, Texas A&M University; Nathan Alexander; James Kyle McIlhaney; Christian Hurst; Leo Colom

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT)

this reason, an amphibious water sampling rover was created by a capstoneproject team. This capstone project team was formed with five undergraduate engineeringtechnology students. This project was started in the Spring semester of 2022 and concluded inthe Fall semester of 2022. This project generated a rover, and the rover can navigate both on landand on water. And it can perform the water sample collection task. The rover can be controlledover a remote PC, and it can collect water temperature data, and the data can be sent remotelyover the internet. For wireless communication, a sub-GHz LoRa module is used. The rover canalso communicate over WiFi. A GUI (Graphical user interface) program was developed tocollect data from the rover and to

Conference Session

AERO 2: Innovative Pedagogy and Hands-on Learning 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zain Zafar Khan; Zachary Alan Sobelman; Sharanabasaweshwara Asundi, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace Division (AERO)

engaged in several teaching and research activities, largely focused on furthering the Space Systems Engineering Program at ODU. He has engaged in research collaboration with National Aeronautics and Space Administration as a Science Collaborator and a Principal Investigator and has been awarded grants by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and National Science Foundation, among others. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Exploring Additive Manufacturing in a Space Environment - A Capstone Design Project ExperienceAbstractThis paper discusses the experiential learning from engaging in a capstone design project

Collection

2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Tina Powell, The Orange Public Schools; Devonii L Reid

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Paper ID #36236An Urban School’s Approach to the Senior Capstone Project: Promoting aCulture of ExcellenceDr. Tina Powell, The Orange Public Schools Dr. Tina Powell, Assistant Superintendent of Innovation & Systems, Orange Public Schools Tina attended Kean University in Union, NJ where she earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Edu- cation, with a concentration in Political Science. Shortly after completing her first degree, she pursued a Post Baccalaureate in Pure Mathematics; a program she completed while simultaneously participating in Montclair State University’s INSTEP program – affording her certification in K