, conceptual ideas,design sketches, calculations, technical references, professional contacts, component sources,software information, etc. The logbook should be dated and signed. Technical reports: In their senior design/capstone projects students work on two semesterprojects. In these projects, they are usually required to design and/or build a new product, deviceor an engineering solution. As an output of their engineering process, they are required to submitthe final report at least a week before the end of the semester. The average length of a seniordesign report is 20 to 30 pages. PowerPoint presentation: Engineering students are required to deliver a group oralpresentation to department faculty and fellow students during the last
integrates high-impact practices (HIPs) to enhance student retention,learning, and academic momentum. The preliminary paper on this project offers a detailedexplanation and foundational framework for implementing these HIPs [1]. Designed to providesignificant learning experiences, these practices include collaborative projects, capstone projects,internships, ePortfolios, and mentored undergraduate research. Participants will collaborate withfaculty mentors to plan their annual participation in HIPs, ensuring steady progress towarddegree completion. Collaborative projects will foster cohort formation through team-basedactivities in courses and design competitions. Capstone projects will provide senior studentswith opportunities to apply their
implementation response analysis. #4 IIR filter IIR filter implementation and frequency Filter implementation response analysis.Table 4: Summary of existing Lab coursework using the dedicated TMS320C6713DSK boardThe new proposed labs that use the MCU-based platform would facilitate students to attain morecontent and practice DSP topics with more depth and complexity.IV: Senior capstone project improvement goals and assessment measuresThe Electrical Engineering program at Western Washington University is in the process oftransitioning from an ABET-ETAC Electronics Engineering Technology (EET) program to anABET-EAC Electrical Engineering (EE) program. All aspects of the curriculum are
- Engineering Innovation - Ideas for social enterprises created by the students; • Any year - Work Experience or internships with community-based organizations or social enterprises; • Year 3 or 4 - Engineering for a Humanitarian Context course as a dedicated elective subject; • Year 4 - Systems Engineering Project (1 semester) and Individual Research Project (2 semesters) - both involve service learning and external partners, the former with a group capstone project, the latter, with research to development or humanitarian contexts.Engineering for a Humanitarian Context (EfaHC). Although the student may participate in HEdriven activities in all years, just one elective course is specific to the subject of HE, the
test section and actively with a recirculation valve. The total cost for this projectwas approximately $3500 and required 3 months of part-time work to construct. Flow velocitymeasurements in the test section were made by simple flow visualization and found velocityranged from 0.32-0.65 ft/s within a 6”x12”x12” test section. The water flume was subsequentlyused by a senior capstone project for testing of their water turbine. Student self-evaluations wereused to assess whether their experiences reinforced fluid mechanics concepts and developed theirskills in experimental fluid mechanics. The results show that the students believed their workwith the water tunnel strongly met the learning objectives in the area of experimental methodsand
engineering design coursewith an embedded capstone design project. In addition to attending weekly 100-minute meetingsto learn about engineering design theory, methods, and tools, students in these courses metoutside of class to work on their capstone projects. The model for this course has previouslybeen published previously [18][19][20]. The following table showcases some of the differencesbetween the section taught using a more traditional lecture-based format and the section using aformat that rewarded adaptive expertise. Lecture-Based Adaptive Expertise- Feature of Course Section Based
Paper ID #30098Using the Entrepreneurial Mindset to Master Kinematics and Human BodyMotion in a Biomechanics CourseDr. Andrea T Kwaczala, Western New England University Andrea Kwaczala is an assistant professor at Western New England University in the biomedical engi- neering department. She teaches Biomechanics, Product Development and Innovation, Senior Capstone Design and Prosthetic and Orthotic Devices. She focuses on hands-on labs centered on student engage- ment and project-based learning. She works in affiliation with Shriners Hospitals for Children where her research focuses in the design of assistive technologies to
has been honored for its community-Collegepartnership. Projects also often address matters of campus value. Recent work, for example,conducted research to support the College’s adoption of a Climate Action Plan aimed atachieving carbon neutrality by 2035. As a few examples, students in capstone seminars in 2017,2018, and 2019 assessed the capacity for campus buildings to hold solar panels, investigatedoptions for microgrids on certain quads on campus, and helped the Office of Sustainability assessthe economic implications of bringing biogenic fuels to the College’s power plant.The 114 students enrolled in Engineering and Society over the last five years have been 39%female, and 25% of those who chose to specify an ethnoracial identity
: • Course Registration • All textbooks & course material delivery. • Video lectures, class notes. • Ability to complete all assignments, home works and exams. • Residency Week materials. • Capstone project materials presentation. • Technical support for eCampus or Blackboard Learn LMS courses • Tuition & fees billing checks and reminderseBooks Platform VitalSource was selected as the eBook platform based on the wide availability ofeducational books and their willingness to work with industry trade publications to get some ofthe books that the MID program was using on the eBook platform. Since 2015-16, all books areavailable in the VitalSource eBooks platform and delivered through their app – The
offered for the first time this year, and since only fivesenior energy engineering students were eligible for capstone design projects this year, weused overlap scheduling and included those five in the same room with the 65 students inthe ME capstone course. The capstone project for the energy engineering students wasproposed by the university’s building energy systems manager – review and update thebuilding energy models for four new campus buildings built with LEED certification inmind, identify discrepancies between actual building performance and model predictions,and develop engineering proposals for projects which provide a return on investment in lessthan 3 years and that would enable the buildings to meet or exceed the energy use goals
Paper ID #24498Tangible Electricity: Audio Amplifier and SpeakerMr. John Edward Miller, Baylor University John Miller is a Senior Lecturer in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Baylor Univer- sity. He teaches a wide range of courses, including the first-year program, mid-level laboratories, control systems, and capstone design. These courses lean heavily on hands-on experience and active learning. He has a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Baylor University, and currently serves as the Assistant Chair for the department.Dr. Brandon Herrera, Baylor University
product and process development. etc. He has almost 21 years of commercial dairy manufacturing experience.Dr. Carrie Steinlicht, South Dakota State University Dr. Carrie Steinlicht is a Senior Lecturer in the College of Engineering at South Dakota State University. She has directed many Capstone projects with Industry partners for students in Manufacturing Engineering Technology and Operations Management. She has several years of industry experience working as an Advanced Development Engineer and also has a consulting business working with regional companies offering training and expertise in lean manufacturing, quality tools, and metallurgy.Mr. Gary Anderson, South Dakota State University
. Feel concerned or happy for another. Empathic Distress Self-oriented affective process. Experience distress as a result of feeling for another.MethodsSetting & ParticipantsThis study was conducted in a junior capstone design project course, a prerequisite to the seniorcapstone design course. This junior-level, team-based course provided students withopportunities to explore a design problem for innovation in the biomedical engineering field andpropose a prototypical design solution at the end of the semester (Spring 2019). Throughout theone-semester course project, each student team had two presentations. The first one was a reportof the project progress and an initial version of the problem
Industrial Engineering at NCSU in 2010 and has since expanded her research in inventory optimization to include engineering education. Her experiences as an engineer have motivated the work done in this study as well as others that aim to improve the success of students entering the global landscape. She teaches the industry-sponsored capstone design course which has led to a second stream of research focused on developing methods to model problem-solving during capstone design.Dr. Tameshia Ballard Baldwin, North Carolina State University Dr. Tameshia Ballard Baldwin is a Teaching Assistant Professor working jointly in the College of En- gineering and in the Department of STEM Education within the College of Education at
installation requirements (e.g. when design doesn’tmeet reality). Overall, this project-based learning experience profoundly impacts studentlearning, as witnessed by a final student quote: “I wish everyone had to take this class prior to taking Senior Design [Capstone Experience]. This class is so helpful in learning how to manage a project! I learned more from this experience than I did from my other [engineering] courses about design.” (Bernardo Quevedo, CBED) V. ConclusionThe ongoing collaboration between CBED, BUG, and the San Jose Unified School District hasbeen successful from each perspective, delivering student projects which have added educationaldimensions to the school gardens and created a positive visual
the end of the classroom visit, a “post-survey” is administered to the K-12 students. The questions are identical to those on the “pre-survey” in order to gauge the K-12 students’ learning outcome as a result of the presentation and STEM tool demonstration. The STEM tool is donated to the school along with a detailed Operations Manual and Lesson Plan (if initially requested by the K-12 teacher). 7. The survey results are evaluated by the engineering design students and capstone design class instructors.Figure 2. The STEM tool project process utilized within the ALLIES partnershipWhile the primary goals of the ALLIES partnership are to develop the future STEM workforceby inspiring younger students via hands-on STEM
government has proposed the “NewEngineering” series of educational reform projects to improve the quality of professionalpersonnel training, including the Excellent Engineer Training Program, Engineering EducationAccreditation, Industry-University Cooperative Education Project, etc. [14, 15]. As part of theseeducational reforms, most Chinese universities have focused on expanding joint educationalactivities with industry from curriculum construction to subject competitions to internshiptraining, as well as joint capstone design projects, etc. Fan and Shao provide an overview ofplans, programs, and challenges for university-industry collaborations in China [16].Although most Chinese colleges and universities have realized the importance of university
cybersecurity and establish capstone projects related to cybersecurity.Execution of tasks for Goal 1: The proposed cybersecurity Capstone (3)concentration is being implemented at NNMC (see Fig. 1).USC implements a subset of the courses: IT Technical: Internship (400 hours) Intermediate and • Introduction to Cybersecurity (3 credits, NNMC): this Upper division Advanced Info. Assurance and Network Security (3) course is one of the two
Networks IIEECE Wireless and X X X342 Mobile ComputingIT 350 Database X X X ManagementEECE Web Engineering X355IT 410 Info. Assurance X X X X & SecurityEECE Software X X435 EngineeringEECE Advanced X X X X X X440 Computer NetworksENGR Engineering X X X X474 Project ManagementIT 490 Capstone I X X X X
mentors.EWB-USA projects can and often do span multiple semesters or even years.The curriculum for EPICS can accommodate projects in any phase of the design process and hassupported the current pilot project over the two semesters with plans to extend into the nextacademic year.Opportunities for the EPICS/EWB-USA credits to count as more, including capstone projects isunder discussion. The relationship with EPICS and EWB-USA will continue to evolve and maylook different at different institutions. However, it seems clear that EPICS can be a proven wayfor EWB-USA projects to be integrated into the curriculum in a way that promotes progress andaccountability on the projects as well as student learning. The curriculum structure documentsthat learning so
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
objectives and students’ interests. • Equip students with resources such as templates for designing interview questions and interview guide. • Encourage or require students to write reflective summaries or reports based on the dialogue(s). Where are professional dialogues applicable? Professional dialogues are particularly applicable in upper-level engineering courses that emphasize design, systems thinking, or interdisciplinary approaches. They are most impactful in project-based learning contexts such as capstone courses or collaborative design challenge, where understanding user needs, industry standards, and technological constraints is essential. Additionally, this strategy can support career exploration and professional
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